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HANSARDSecondary Metastatic Breast CancerCan the Minister guarantee to the House that the long-awaited workforce plan will contain specific numbers and targets for each clinical group—numbers to be trained over the next…09 May 2023HANSARDChildbirth: Black WomenMy Lords, the Minister mentioned the Maternity Disparities Taskforce meeting on 18 April. Can he explain why the Select Committee was able to report that the task force had not…03 May 2023HANSARDLong CovidMy Lords, the Minister will be aware that there is real concern about the rising number of inactive people of working age, due mainly to long-term sickness. I accept what he said…25 Apr 2023HANSARDBrain TumoursTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve the scale of research into the causes and treatment of brain tumours.24 Apr 2023HANSARDBrain TumoursMy Lords, this is a devastating disease and I welcome the Government’s doubling of the £20 million grant for research to £40 million in memory of my late friend Baroness Jowell.…24 Apr 2023HANSARDDiphtheriaMy Lords, coming back to the original Question, does the Minister accept that during the Covid pandemic the role that directors of public health played locally was critical to…18 Apr 2023HANSARDChildren’s School MealsMy Lords, the Minister is probably aware of figures released last week, which showed that, in the early 1950s, the UK had one of the longest life expectancies in the world. Recent…27 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. I particularly want to speak to Amendments 241 and 504GF, which essentially seek to embrace the planning system within wider…27 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I support the noble Baroness. The Malvern Hills are of course an outstanding place of beauty in the West Midlands, and it is important that the trust is allowed to do…22 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I have added my name to Amendments 179 and 271 from the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale. I thank him very much for bringing them to your Lordships’ Committee. I will make…22 Mar 2023HANSARDStroke Rehabilitation and Community ServicesMy Lords, the Minister talked about the national integrated service. He will be aware that rehabilitation services are very patchy and that, over the last four or five years, the…22 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I understand the Minister’s response, which seems to come in heavy on what is a pretty small objective. If it is difficult to do in this way, what could her department…22 Mar 2023HANSARDMedical Devices and EquipmentMy Lords, surely at the heart of this Question—and it relates to China—is that what we learned during the pandemic is that we were overreliant on supplies from China. The…20 Mar 2023HANSARDCommunity PharmaciesMy Lords, would the Minister like to have another go at answering the question from the noble Lord, Lord Grade? I did not really get from him any sense of how the Government are…20 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, we have had at least two debates so far on the role of non-metropolitan district councils within the new framework, and I want to return to this theme for my two…15 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, it has been a very interesting debate; I am grateful to noble Lords who have taken part and to the Minister for his very careful response. At heart, I come back to the…15 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill15 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill13 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group, which ranges very far and wide; at points, it is difficult to know what connects one with another. However, I suppose that…13 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, this has been an interesting debate. The Minister made an interesting comment at the end when she said that basically a lot of the services we are talking about are the…13 Mar 2023