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HANSARDHealth and Social CareThat is right, and of those 40 new hospitals over the next decade, one of the very first will be in Harlow. I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend, who has been a champion of…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI think that is an early warning that my right hon. Friend is going to leave immediately after his intervention. He is quite right to raise the subject. We are increasing the…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareYes, we are doing that work to make sure that, as we pump hundreds of millions of pounds into Hertfordshire to improve its healthcare, we get the exact locations right. I look…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI am, because Milton Keynes’s new MP has already been working with me to bring this concern to light. I can inform him that the new cancer unit will be handed over to Milton…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI will continue to take some interventions, if the House will allow me, and then make some progress.16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI was going to come on to that later in my speech, but my hon. Friend is absolutely right. I had an excellent visit to Wycombe during the general election campaign. He has a…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareIt is good to see that the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesbury), having got the commitment to a meeting, is off—he’s done! That was quick. My right hon. Friend the Member…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI do not know how my hon. Friend knew that I was about to finish.16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI am very happy to meet the hon. Gentleman. As well as the new hospitals, we also have upgrades going on that are very important. Some hospitals need to be completely rebuilt, we…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareYes. My hon. Friend has been an assiduous campaigner to make sure that blood cancers are right at the top of the agenda. It is an incredibly important subject and it is very much…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI will rattle through as fast as I can, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I also want to take as many interventions as I can, if that is okay. [ Interruption. ] No, okay, no interventions.…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI can tell the hon. Lady that since the election I have been working on precisely that. I am very happy to meet her to see whether we can make a breakthrough.16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareYes. I would be very happy to do that. I was struck by my hon. Friend’s enthusiasm for solving this problem when I visited during the election campaign. The problem is absolutely…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI look forward very much to speaking to and working with the new Health Minister in Northern Ireland. I am delighted that there is a ministerial team in Northern Ireland and I pay…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareAbsolutely. I am glad that we resolved the problems with the Countess of Chester Hospital serving patients who live in north Wales. I know that part of the world well, not least…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI want to see a pathway to zero tobacco too. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the work that he has done to draw attention to mental health and to change the national…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareMy hon. Friend is dead right. Pharmacies should be doing more to keep the pressure off GPs, because they are in the community and more accessible, and within a GP surgery not…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe cash boost that we are giving now is bigger. I think today is the anniversary of Prime Minister Tony Blair sitting on the couch of a TV show, talking about increasing funding…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe medicines and medical devices Bill is designed to make it easier for hospitals to take part in trials of cutting edge medicines, including personalised medicines, and allow us…16 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe proposals that we are working on include solutions for the provision of social care for older and retired people as they decline in the later years of their lives, and for…16 Jan 2020