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HANSARD Organ Donation and Transplantation StrategyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall) for securing this debate and for being such a…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Organ Donation and Transplantation StrategyThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We need to ensure that we tackle any practical or logistical issues; I am happy to look at that. If there are particular regions where the…23 Feb 2022HANSARDMaternity Services Improvement: UpdateFollowing the Baby Loss Awareness Week debate on 23 September 2021, I wish to update the House on progress with work to improve safe and equitable outcomes for women and families…23 Feb 2022HANSARDDavid Fuller: Independent InquiryFollowing my statement on 16 December 2021 I wish to update the House about the independent Inquiry which is investigating the circumstances surrounding the offences committed by…23 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Social CareFor some of last year, dental teams were delivering only up to 40% of normal activity. It was not until the end of last year that the threshold went up to 65%, and just around…21 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Social CareFor most of last year, dental teams were allowed only up to 40% of normal activity. It was not until the end of last year that they could go up to 65%, and just around Christmas…21 Feb 2022HANSARDAccess to NHS DentistryIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ali. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) on securing the debate and I am pleased that he is…10 Feb 2022HANSARDAccess to NHS DentistryAbsolutely. I will come on to that point, which is valid. We want to increase capacity and there are dentists who want to take on NHS work. When contracts are handed back, we have…10 Feb 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Children’s Mental Health ServicesAbsolutely. Services are commissioned locally. Part of the issue is that there is no accountability for when services are not commissioned. The funding that is put forward needs…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Children’s Mental Health ServicesNo, that does not sound right. That is exactly why we want to bring some accountability to local services, so that when such statements are made, we can look at what the problems…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Children’s Mental Health ServicesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Fovargue. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Laura Farris) for securing this important debate on special…09 Feb 2022HANSARDDentist Industry and NHS BacklogsI take my hon. Friend’s point of view, but during the pandemic there has been significant support that many other sectors did not get. That is not to detract from the problems…07 Feb 2022HANSARDDentist Industry and NHS BacklogsIf my hon. Friend will allow me, I will touch on some of those measures, too. If we move on from just the covid-related problems that have fallen on dentistry, there is no doubt…07 Feb 2022HANSARDDentist Industry and NHS BacklogsI absolutely have a lot of sympathy for dentists. It is due to their and their teams’ hard work that, since December 2020, urgent care is back to pre-pandemic levels. I reassure…07 Feb 2022HANSARDDentist Industry and NHS BacklogsI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington South (Andy Carter) on securing the debate and on raising such an important issue. I answered another Monday Adjournment…07 Feb 2022HANSARDEssex Mental Health Inquiry: IndemnityIt is normal practice, when a Government Department proposes to undertake a contingent liability in excess of £300,000 for which there is no specific statutory authority, for the…04 Feb 2022HANSARDCumberlege ReportYes, absolutely. Part of the consultation we will announce shortly will look at international comparisons. One concern we have about some of the no-fault schemes is the caps on…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCumberlege ReportI thank my right hon. Friend for making that point. Compensation can be claimed now. Our concern about setting up a specific body to oversee that is that that would not address…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCumberlege ReportSpecifically on Primodos, there is pending litigation so it is difficult for me to comment while that is in progress, but, depending on the outcome, the Government will respond to…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCumberlege ReportIf I touch on the points in my response, hopefully I will be able to reassure colleagues on the progress being made.03 Feb 2022