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HANSARDDraft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Coronavirus and Influenza) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2024I am pleased that we have cross-party support for the regulations. They are important in ensuring that we can deliver an efficient vaccination roll-out, particularly with a…30 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Coronavirus and Influenza) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2024I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Coronavirus and Influenza) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2024. It…30 Jan 2024HANSARDMeaslesFollowing my written statement of 22 January 2024, I wish to provide a further update to the House on the actions that the Government and health system are taking in response to…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Children’s Mental Health Week 2024Will the hon. Lady give way?30 Jan 2024HANSARD Children’s Mental Health Week 2024The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Part of that can be done in our schools. With the increase in mental health support teams, which will now cover 4.2 million pupils, there…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Children’s Mental Health Week 2024The hon. Lady is making my argument for me. We are seeing a significant increase in demand, and that is why we are spending more on rolling out these services. She did not welcome…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Children’s Mental Health Week 2024Let me point out what we are doing with our funding. We have introduced two waiting time standards for children and young people. The first is for 95% of children up to 19 with an…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Children’s Mental Health Week 2024I will touch on what we are doing and come back to the hon. Lady on that point. Last week we met the Education Secretary and the chief executive of the NHS to discuss how we can…30 Jan 2024HANSARDChild and Adolescent Mental Health ServicesThrough the investment we are putting in, particularly in the hon. Lady’s local area, there are a number of initiatives to help support children and young people with their mental…23 Jan 2024HANSARDChild and Adolescent Mental Health ServicesI thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue. We were holding regular meetings with Norfolk and Suffolk MPs, the trust, the Care Quality Commission and NHS England, and with the…23 Jan 2024HANSARDChild and Adolescent Mental Health ServicesWe are investing an extra £2.3 billion a year to expand mental health services in England, with the aim of enabling 2 million more people to access mental health support,…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMen’s HealthI assure my right hon. Friend that this Government are committed to improving men’s health. That is why, in November, we announced a suite of measures, including a £16 million…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the hon. Lady will know, we are investing more in mental health services for young people in particular and, indeed, for those with eating disorders. We are seeing more young…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMental Health ServicesWe are investing a record amount in NHS mental health services, committing £2.3 billion extra a year for the expansion and transformation of services in England, which will enable…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMen’s HealthWe have more than hinted: we have just announced a £16 million pilot study of prostate cancer screening. We have a plan to tackle those 12,000 deaths a year, and it will work,…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMen’s HealthI thank my right hon. Friend and male colleagues on the Government Benches, including my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher), who are fighting so hard to improve…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMental Health ServicesI have news for the hon. Gentleman, because we have a plan and it is working. Our investment of £143 million into crisis support is showing early evidence of reducing…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMeaslesThe hon. Lady is right that we used community champions during covid. We had some particularly effective campaigns for those communities that do not traditionally come forward for…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeaslesWe have a vaccine damage payment scheme, which provides a one-off payment of £120,000. That is accessible for any vaccine that someone takes up, but I have to say that part of the…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeaslesI can assure the hon. Lady that it was not ignored by the Government. Over the past 12 months, we have been pushing vaccinations to those who have not come forward, and to…22 Jan 2024