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HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyMy Lords, my noble friend touches on two very important points. He is entirely right that mental health has previously been underrepresented in the strategies of our healthcare. I…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyMy Lords, we are of course drafting the national strategy, and we are collecting evidence on what its priorities should be. Undoubtedly, FGM should be in there; it is the most…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyI reassure the noble Baroness that we are committed to getting this right. The Minister of State and Secretary of State are both very committed to this agenda, and the whole…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyThe noble Lord makes a really good point. I am not sure whether we have considered the gender aspect of the clinical trials work programme in our G7 agenda. It has been very much…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyI pay tribute to my noble friend for his campaigning on this important cause. It is not the specific focus of the health strategy but it will play a part in it, and I encourage my…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyMy Lords, the noble Baronesses, Lady Thornton and Lady Brinton, have both made their points incredibly well, and I will not argue the toss about any of them. I completely…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, I cannot hide from the noble Lord the fact that across the public sector there is a pay freeze. The only area that that does not apply to is the NHS, a point that I…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, the test and trace system is part of an essential response to a virus pandemic that has shaken the world, and the costs of that pandemic are enormous. I regret them very…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, I am at a slight disadvantage because I am not quite sure that I can substantiate the noble Baroness’s view that pay has lagged behind inflation. Her economics lesson is…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, the noble Baroness makes some vivid comparisons on completely incomparable pay differentials. The values that we have are absolutely aligned with public service values.…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, I completely endorse the right reverend Prelate’s point about the heroics of—and the debt that we owe—nurses, but I just cannot agree with him that the best way of…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, I agree with the noble Lord on the point about heroics—we appreciate those—but I do not agree that this represents a pay cut. On the broad thrust of the noble Lord’s…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayI am grateful for the economics lesson from the noble Lord. I will take those recommendations and pass them on to colleagues at the Treasury.09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, I start by saying how much nursing staff and all healthcare staff are appreciated, not only by the Government but by the entire public. Of course we stand by that…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, our written evidence to the independent pay review body set out what is affordable. We have increased the size of the NHS workforce over the last decade and have…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWorld Health Organization: PandemicsMy Lords, the WHO is not a sitting member of the G7, but we have a representative attending our health track in Oxford, and we have been in dialogue with them directly with our…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWorld Health Organization: PandemicsMy Lords, the environmental consequences of the pandemic are indeed severe, as the noble Baroness rightly points out. We are working with colleagues in Defra to try to figure out…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWorld Health Organization: PandemicsMy Lords, I share the noble Lord’s passion for international travel. Like him, I cannot wait for global travel to restart. I also see the connection between the promise of a…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWorld Health Organization: PandemicsMy Lords, the Government are extremely committed to pandemic preparedness. We support the principle of a pandemic preparedness treaty, and we have laid out at UNGA a very clear…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWorld Health Organization: PandemicsThe noble Earl refers to the important role that the WHO plays. Of course, we are all frustrated sometimes with our multilateral organisations, but the noble Earl quite rightly…09 Mar 2021