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HANSARDThe National Health ServiceQuite right. I am voting for you, Madam Deputy Speaker. On the point made by the hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies), to whom I will not give way—23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It was incredibly moving to meet, in my office downstairs here in the House of Commons, some children with Batten disease who needed access to…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceYes. My hon. Friend is a brilliant advocate for her local community, and I visited the new medical school with her. She makes an incredibly important point about access to new…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceHold on, I have not even answered the previous intervention. The truth is that the NHS has proposed measures that will make it easier to run the NHS, to reduce bureaucracy and to…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceYes, I am trying to take as many interventions as is reasonable. I feel as though I have been sitting down for most of the half hour that I have technically been speaking for—23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceWe will absolutely do that. The hon. Gentleman rightly says that this provision is a devolved matter, and we have already had a debate about the relative funding increases, but…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceLet me explain my argument and then I will give way. What is not currently publicly provided? What about drugs and pharmaceuticals? Is the hon. Member for Leicester South really…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceThat is a decision taken by the local NHS. The proposals that we are putting forward in law, for debate under this Queen’s Speech, are to change the regulations. We must…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceI would love to. I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman’s work not only on the prevention agenda and public health in government, but on ensuring that the long-term plan approach to…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceThe hon. Gentleman raises the problem across Staffordshire. We are trying to ensure that the NHS in Staffordshire looks forward with confidence, and that includes addressing…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceMy hon. Friend has campaigned incredibly hard. As she knows, the local NHS brought forward the plan, which we are proposing to amend. I am working on that with her. However, I am…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceYes, I can. In the light of the extensive representations that my hon. Friend made regarding the A&E in Cheltenham, I have spoken to the chief executive of Gloucestershire…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceI will tell the House exactly what happened. My hon. Friend invited me to Burton, and I looked at the changes that needed to happen. I talked to the NHS and we then announced not…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceIt is thanks to my hon. Friend’s campaigning and bringing to light the importance of the upgrade to the A&E at Walsall Hospital that we have been able to make that investment.…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceI did find it surprising that the hon. Member for Leicester South did not mention the £33.9 billion largest and longest funding settlement in history, but I would also note this:…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceI rise in support of the Queen’s Speech, which has more action on health than any Queen’s Speech in a generation. At its heart it has five major legislative reforms that will set…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceI will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Telford (Lucy Allan), who has already intervened on the Prime Minister today. I hope that I can help out.23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceI will absolutely look at that, and I think that the new hospital is going to be absolutely terrific up in his part of the world. I will also put on record my gratitude to my hon.…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceMy hon. Friend is right that the local NHS came forward with its plans, but I want to ensure that A&E facilities continue in Telford. We are working on the details, and he will be…23 Oct 2019HANSARDThe National Health ServiceYes. There is no greater spokesman for Mansfield than my hon. Friend, and he is absolutely right about smoking. We have set a target of ending smoking by 2030. It is a stretching…23 Oct 2019