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HANSARDMental Health Treatment and SupportI am just answering a question on suicide. I would be very happy to meet the 3 Dads Walking to learn the lessons for our suicide prevention strategy.07 Jun 2023HANSARDMental Health Treatment and SupportI will not give way. I only have a few minutes left. It is disappointing that Labour Members cannot understand the progress that has been made and are determined to make political…07 Jun 2023HANSARDMental Health Treatment and SupportMadam Deputy Speaker, I will continue if I may. Despite the disingenuous motion proposed by the Labour party, it is my privilege to hear about the valuable contributions being…07 Jun 2023HANSARDHealthcare for WomenI thank the hon. Lady for her work in this space. She is campaigning hard on this issue. I reassure her that osteoporosis is in the women’s health strategy and is a priority area…06 Jun 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. We take this issue very seriously, and we have already made interim payments to those infected. The Minister for the Cabinet Office…06 Jun 2023HANSARDHealthcare for WomenI thank my hon. Friend, who does a huge amount of work supporting her local midwives in Stroud. I can give her encouraging news: not only have we spent £190 million on midwifery…06 Jun 2023HANSARDHealthcare for WomenThis is the first Government to produce a women’s health strategy in England. We are making huge progress on the eight priorities in our first year, from introducing the hormone…06 Jun 2023HANSARDHealthcare for WomenI thank the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee for his question, as he raises an important point. Last year, we asked the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood,…06 Jun 2023HANSARDHealthcare for WomenI thank the hon. Lady for her question, and let me also pay tribute to the hon. Member for West Ham (Ms Brown), who has campaigned hard in this space. I met a group of women to…06 Jun 2023HANSARDHealthcare for WomenI thank the shadow Minister for her question. My colleague the Minister for Social Care is hosting an event today for carers, and £300 million for carers in the better care fund…06 Jun 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. I feel that we had a very productive meeting yesterday with the all-party parliamentary group on covid-19 vaccine damage about the…06 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023Absolutely, Mr Stringer. I am happy to follow up on the yellow card outside the Committee, because it is outside the scope of the regulations. The aim of the draft regulations, as…22 May 2023HANSARDDraft Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023I take the hon. Lady’s point, and that is exactly the point that I wanted to make: we want to have the safest regulations possible. However, that does not close the door to…22 May 2023HANSARDDraft Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023I will do my best to respond to the points made by hon. Members. The hon. Member for Bristol South asked a number of questions. She is right: there is a long list of devices,…22 May 2023HANSARDDraft Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr…22 May 2023HANSARD Abuse and Sexual Assaults in the NHS: InvestigationsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq, and I thank the hon. Member for St Albans (Daisy Cooper) for securing this important debate. First and foremost, I want…16 May 2023HANSARDFuller InquiryOn 8 November 2021, the Government announced an independent inquiry to examine the circumstances surrounding the offences committed by David Fuller in Maidstone and Tunbridge…10 May 2023HANSARDStatutory Medical Examiner SystemI wish to inform the House of the Government’s plan for introducing a statutory medical examiner system from April 2024. Medical examiners are senior medical doctors who provide…27 Apr 2023HANSARDMaternal Health DisparitiesIt is this Government who have recognised that maternal disparities do exist for black, Asian and minority ethnic women and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. That…26 Apr 2023HANSARDMaternal Health DisparitiesShe says she has; I hope she has. The plan focuses on driving down inequalities in both maternal and neonatal care, and it would be great if we could have cross-party support for…26 Apr 2023