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HANSARDNHS DentistryMy Lords, the £50 million one-off payment for 350,000 appointments is a drop in the ocean compared to the 38 million appointments that have been lost during Covid. The Healthwatch…31 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill31 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI shall say a few words in support of the noble Lord, Lord Warner; I put my name to his original Amendment 285 and, obviously, I very much endorse what he said. Reading the Select…31 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I hope that I do not slow us down again after the provocative words of the noble Baroness, Lady Chisholm, but I am going to talk about access to dental treatment and…31 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I too support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra. As we are really talking about procurement in the NHS, I should declare my interest as president of the…31 Jan 2022HANSARDNHS DentistryTo ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to Healthwatch England’s report What people have told us about NHS dentistry , published on 20 December 2021, what steps they are taking…31 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. On dental access, a number of noble Lords—my noble friend, the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, the noble Lord, Lord Storey, and…31 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I am of course grateful to the noble Baroness but I am not sure that she has entirely dealt with the concerns expressed. Because the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton,…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, Amendment 147 concerns the establishment of integrated care partnerships. Although the amendment is specifically about the membership of ICPs, I think that it is…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy noble friend raises a very important point, because councillors can presumably go on integrated care partnerships and health and well-being boards but cannot go on the…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI am grateful to the Minister. First, I thank my noble friend Lord Davies for his amendment. I think, notwithstanding what the Minister said about some of the technical details,…26 Jan 2022HANSARDRacism in English CricketMy Lords, has the Minister seen the reports that many county cricket clubs charge huge amounts of money for young players who have been identified as having particular skills to…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillThere are a lot of marginal seats, and there is going to be a general election in two and a half years—maximum. A lot of the reconfiguration proposals usually relate to smaller…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, we come to Clause 39, which I think is one of the most significant ways in which the Bill will increase the powers of the Secretary of State over the NHS. The clause…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, this has been a very significant debate, because when the Minister referred to the fact that Ministers needed to have the answers, I realised that the intention is to go…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I described at Second Reading, or at some point in a meeting with the Minister, an attempt to save Ministers from themselves. I do not understand why on earth the…26 Jan 2022