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HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I want to make just a small factual supplement to the contribution from the noble Lord, Lord Naseby. In fact, it was a Conservative Government in 1957 who introduced the…16 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I am very pleased to co-sponsor the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, Amendment 80, and to speak in support of a number of the other amendments…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillWe await insight from the Minister himself on that point; it is indeed, of course, what the chairman of the cross-party Health and Social Care Committee, Jeremy Hunt, suggested in…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillThe noble Lord raises the congenital paediatric cardiac case, and the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, raised the Kent stroke question. On that question, the estimate was that 40…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, continuing the outbreak of consensus, a large number of mental health stakeholders welcome the fact that the Government have accepted these amendments, which draw…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank the Government for supporting these amendments, which reflect the substance of amendments that my noble friend Lady Hayman, I and others brought forward in…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillBriefly, I also support these amendments, including the Government’s comprehensive amendment, but I was spurred into action by the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett. It is worth saying…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, perhaps channelling the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, from this morning, I congratulate the Government on including in the Bill these measures to tackle childhood obesity.…04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillAs the noble Lord will know, the genuine problem that we have in this country is that unfortunately we are a world leader in childhood obesity. It therefore falls to us to take…04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI shall briefly make two points. First, having looked at this quite carefully, it is good to see that there is nothing in the proposals for the payment scheme that would…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I just wanted to respond to the last set of very important questions that have arisen. It is fair to say that the Bill increases the accountability for commissioning…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, it is a privilege to speak to this group of amendments. I recognise that a public service as important as the National Health Service has to be democratically…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I will be brief. In response to the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, in fairness, there is logic to the broad direction being set out by the Government here. As the financial…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, in theory these amendments should not be needed, but in practice they clearly are, as the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, has just so forensically set out. It is a…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I had not intended to speak but, animated by the contributions of colleagues who, like me, were there at the conception of NICE, I thought I would offer a couple of…20 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, and support all the amendments in this group in her name. I speak particularly to Amendments 201 and…13 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill11 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, these amendments all relate to mental health, and I should perhaps start by following in the wake of my former colleague, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI thank the Minister for that careful response. Across the Committee, we have all obviously heard the breadth and depth of concern for the issues surfaced through these…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords for the warm and generous welcome. I joined the NHS on its 40th anniversary, in 1988; it is therefore a huge privilege to participate in this…07 Dec 2021