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HANSARDBranded Health Service Medicines (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2023I am sorry to interrupt the Minister again. We are talking about signals given to the outside world, in these discussions that are now taking place about the voluntary scheme. As…25 May 2023HANSARDBranded Health Service Medicines (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2023I am sorry to interrupt the Minister’s flow. He said that we are having the fruitful discussions that the Prime Minister wants with the industry and that they are starting to…25 May 2023HANSARDHealth and Care Bill07 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMay I give the Minister the answer to why they were not implemented? Successive Conservative Chancellors declined to implement them.07 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 141, 143 and 144A—to all of which I have added my name. In the unavoidable absence of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, through Covid, I shall…07 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI wish to test the opinion of the House.07 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, my Amendment 100 requires NHS England to “conduct a public survey of whether patients have been offered choices about where they obtain treatment and must report to the…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, no chance. I wish to test the opinion of the House.03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI am grateful to the Minister for his reassurances on the issue of patient choice. I suggest that the arrangements that he outlined in his response to my amendment are not well…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I rise even more briefly to support Amendment 116. It is worth reminding the Minister and the House that the Government Statistical Service is independent. It was made…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, Amendment 112 is my name and the names of the noble Lords, Lord Hunt, Lord Scriven and Lord Kakkar. I am grateful for their support. This amendment goes much wider in…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 111 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, to which I have added my name, and Amendment 80 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege. On…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI am sorry to interrupt the Minister but when I listened to that last statement about Health Education England, I wondered whether he had seen the article in the Economist of 5…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, very briefly, I support Amendments 171 and 178 in this group, spoken to so ably by the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, and the noble Lord, Lord Hunt. I do so as a former…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI am sorry to interrupt the Minister at this time of night, but I think he has no idea how many Ministers have stood in this place over the last 10 to 15 years making very similar…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 307, introduced so ably by the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler. I have raised this issue from time to time over the past decade or so,…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I rise briefly to speak in support of this amendment. I declare my interest as a vice-chairman of the All-Party Group on Autism and the grandfather of a child with very…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, after consultation with the clerks and for the convenience of the Committee, I have moved my Amendment 318 into this group. Before I speak to it, I say that, as a person…09 Feb 2022