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HANSARDHormone Replacement Therapy: CostWith International Women’s Day tomorrow, I want to pay tribute to the menopause warriors—all the amazing individual women and organisations who have forced this issue up the…07 Mar 2023HANSARDCovid Pandemic: Testing of Care Home Residents(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement on the testing of care home residents during the covid pandemic.01 Mar 2023HANSARDCovid Pandemic: Testing of Care Home ResidentsThroughout the covid pandemic, Ministers repeatedly claimed that they had thrown a protective ring around England’s care homes and that they had always followed the evidence and…01 Mar 2023HANSARD Labour Market ActivityThe argument I want to make today is that having a properly functioning social care system, and far more flexibility at work for families who look after elderly or disabled…28 Feb 2023HANSARD Labour Market ActivityElegant!28 Feb 2023HANSARDFuture of the NHSI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) on securing this important debate. It really is a privilege to speak after so many powerful and passionate…23 Feb 2023HANSARDFuture of the NHSYes, we have properly costed these proposals, because we—unlike the hon. Gentleman’s party, which announced huge amounts of borrowing without saying anything about where the money…23 Feb 2023HANSARDFuture of the NHSMay I gently say to the hon. Gentleman that I know what is best for his constituents and the people of Wales, which is a Labour Government in Westminster as well as a Labour…23 Feb 2023HANSARDFuture of the NHSThe Minister has repeatedly used this £7.5 billion extra for social care figure, but will he confirm that £3.15 billion of that is from the Government’s failure to implement the…23 Feb 2023HANSARDFuture of the NHSWill that long-term workforce plan include social care staff?23 Feb 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Backlog: Elective CareMinisters will never deal with the record waits for NHS treatment until they stop older people being stuck in hospital because they cannot get decent social care in the community…24 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The promise was buried once and for all by the Chancellor in his autumn statement last year—a Chancellor, I remind the House, who said that his…11 Jan 2023HANSARD NHS: Long-term StrategyToday’s debate has laid bare the dire state of our health and care system after 13 long years of this Conservative Government: more than 7 million people waiting for hospital…11 Jan 2023HANSARDCancer ServicesI thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting this hugely important debate and the hon. Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) for securing it. Ever since he was elected in…08 Dec 2022HANSARDSocial Care ReformLet’s just tell it like it is on the Government’s record on social care reform. Their cap on care costs was first promised 10 years ago. In 2015, they delayed it and in 2017 they…06 Dec 2022HANSARD Social CareIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ali. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green) on securing this debate. It is about time that we…24 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsLike many hon. Members, I find that by far the biggest issue that constituents raise with me is housing, including the appalling standards that we have all seen in social housing…16 Nov 2022HANSARDHuntington’s DiseaseIt is a pleasure to serve with you as Chair, Mr Robertson. I really congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) on securing this debate. He spoke…09 Nov 2022HANSARDState Pension Triple Lockrose —08 Nov 2022HANSARDState Pension Triple LockI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. I am sure he knows that half of all Leicester pensioners live in the most deprived 20% of the country, and one in five live…08 Nov 2022