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HANSARDAccess to GPsThat is an incredibly important point. We have a manifesto commitment to ensure that where there is new housing there is also new primary care. Just as a new housing estate will…28 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsOf course, it is incredibly important that we have appropriate measures in place for those who return from China—not only those returning from outside Wuhan, but those returning…28 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is absolutely right. Last year, my right hon. Friend campaigned for and secured the long-term future of the Parsons Green walk-in centre. That announcement was made, and then…28 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social Care (Buckinghamshire)Yes, my hon. Friend is spot on. We recognise the need for a multi-year capital settlement in the NHS to support exactly that sort of planning and to modernise, and the Treasury…28 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS: Take-up of New TechnologyThe hon. Gentleman is a man after my own heart. I am sorry that I missed the ribbon cutting, as I love a good ribbon cutting, especially where the project sounds so brilliant and…28 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS: Take-up of New TechnologyRadiotherapy is a good example of part of the NHS that can benefit hugely from improved technology now and from the cutting-edge artificial intelligence-type technologies that are…28 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillIt is what the British people say.27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillOf course. The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds (Jo Churchill), is responsible for prevention and primary care,…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that we need earlier diagnosis of cancer—I entirely agree. Rolling out the 200 extra diagnostics facilities and increasingly making them…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that the three years without an Administration in Northern Ireland have led to all sorts of difficulties. I have already spoken to my new…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillWe are already exceeding those amounts with the additional funding that I mentioned to do with training and capital, both of which are critical. Of course the budget is set out in…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillThat is clearly set out in the operational guidance to the NHS—that it must be. That will be auditable, and I am sure that my right hon. Friend will look to ensure that that has…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillI will give way briefly before I conclude.27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillI want to finish this section, Madam Deputy Speaker. The crucial thing in this Bill is the certainty: the Bill provides everyone in the NHS with the certainty to work better…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillI would be careful about making that argument if I were the hon. Gentleman. Over the last decade, the Scottish Government have increased spending on their NHS slower than we have…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillYes, absolutely. If we use technology to set up a better booking system for GPs, it turns out that we reduce by a third the number of times people do not attend.27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillThe Foreign Office is working with international partners both in America and other EU countries, keeping open about the procedures and what it will do for the estimated 200 UK…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillYes. My hon. Friend makes a really important point. The issue is not just the quantity of money but how we spend it. Making sure that we get the best value for every pound put in…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillWe are using all possible means to get in contact with the 1,460 people whom we need to contact, and who we know have travelled to the UK from Wuhan and who have not as far as we…27 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillThe hon. Member is quite right to raise this. There is a Public Health England unit or hub at Heathrow to meet all flights from China now; it met the one flight that has come from…27 Jan 2020