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HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesI appreciate my hon. Friend’s recognition, remembering where we were barely two years ago, of how we have moved on since then. We have put in place a test and trace programme that…10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesOnce again, I make no apologies for the Department working to look at every opportunity to make sure that we had the right mechanisms in place to keep our country safe. As I said…10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesThe evidence has been put in the Library and the information is there. I want to make it clear that my Department went through as much evidence as it could. As I said earlier, we…10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesI respect the hon. Gentleman and I look forward to the outcome of the work of his Committee. The code of conduct for MPs rightly remains a matter for Parliament. Today, we are…10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesAs I said, we follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and in procuring goods and services we are committed to fair and reasonable timetables and procedures, and encourage…10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesThe evidence that we produced in response to the Humble Address has been laid in the Library.10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesThere is a lot of detail in that question. If I may, I will write to the hon. Lady with answers.10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesI reassure the House that I did read the documents before they were laid in the Library.10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesThat is really for the Treasury to look at, but I come back again to the fact that Randox was an established company in diagnostic testing and that at the time we looked at which…10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesI register all my meetings, as I should do.10 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesI reiterate what I said earlier: we have robust rules and processes in place to ensure that contracts are awarded in accordance with the Public Procurement Regulations 2015, which…10 Feb 2022HANSARDChildren’s Mental HealthI must make some progress. Throughout the pandemic, NHS mental health services remained open, offering digital and remote access to maintain support and to accept new referrals.…08 Feb 2022HANSARDChildren’s Mental HealthI do not think that any of us can imagine what seeing such a trauma can cause to young people, and indeed to people of any age. I know that great community work is being carried…08 Feb 2022HANSARDChildren’s Mental HealthI hear your words loud and clear, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to Opposition Members for providing the opportunity to debate the very important issue of children and young…08 Feb 2022HANSARDChildren’s Mental HealthMy hon. Friend makes a really good point, and I know that she has lots of experience on this issue from a clinician’s point of view. She is right to say that families play a very…08 Feb 2022HANSARDChildren’s Mental HealthNo, I will not give way. I must make some headway. In May 2021 we announced £9.5 million of funding to offer senior mental health lead training to around a third of all state…08 Feb 2022HANSARDChildren’s Mental HealthI will make progress because we are short of time and I want to give plenty of time for Back Benchers to contribute. More than 420,000 children and young people were treated…08 Feb 2022HANSARDLocal Authority Public Health Grant 2022-23Today I am publishing the public health grant allocations to local authorities in England for 2022-23. Funding for local government’s health responsibilities is an essential…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Prescribing: EnglandIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Alexander Stafford) for securing this debate on an important…01 Feb 2022HANSARD Health Inequalities: Office for Health Improvement and DisparitiesI reassure the hon. Gentleman that tackling homelessness is a high priority for this Government. As hon. Members have mentioned, the Government will shortly publish a landmark…26 Jan 2022