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HANSARD HealthOnce again, a Conservative Government are expanding the NHS and planning for the future to ensure that it will always be there for us, with a record £33.9 billion investment and a…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthLocal authorities and the NHS work very closely in delivering a huge number of services, and authorities often commission services back from the NHS. I can tell the hon. Lady that…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthI give way first to the right hon. Lady.14 May 2019HANSARD HealthThe public health grant is settled in the spending review. The NHS settlement has come before the spending review, and the public health grant is only one part of the approach to…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthNo. I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the importance of clean air, but I gently point out that dealing with the deficit—the annual amount by which the Government was…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthMy right hon. Friend anticipates my very next point. It is important to get value for the extra taxpayers’ money we put in. I always try to refer to it as taxpayers’ money,…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthI have taken the hon. Gentleman’s point. That is the purpose of the entire prevention agenda: to help people to stay healthy in the first place. Let me give a few examples. The…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthI will give way in a moment, if I may just make a bit of progress. Of course extending healthy life expectancies is a central goal of the Government, and we will move heaven and…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthWe have made those resources available. The resources from the NHS to make PrEP available have been put forward. I find it deeply frustrating that in many areas that has not yet…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthI respect the right hon. Lady’s work as Public Health Minister—she was excellent in that role—and I was going to turn to this point. It is very important that we understand the…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthAs I have said, I will come on to the details because there is undoubtedly work to do. Normally, we work on these issues in a fairly non-partisan way across the aisle. If we take…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthYes. We can only fund a stronger health service and we can only fund strong public services if we have a strong economy and that would be put at risk by the recklessness of the…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthIt is a great pleasure to respond to this Opposition day debate on health. It is worth saying at the start that, for all we have heard from the hon. Member for Leicester South…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthThe Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and I are working incredibly closely on this because clean air is a public health matter. The challenge is that,…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthI am glad I took that intervention because that was not the intention I was trying to convey at all. We need to do more to tackle smoking, and we will, and we need to continue to…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthWe have not discussed obesity much during this debate, but the Government have a whole programme to tackle it. That includes tackling advertising and, in particular, tackling the…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthWe are honouring the pay rise proposed—of course we are. I love the HSJ , which is an absolutely terrific journal, but it was wide of the mark on that. We are putting in record…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthYes, I have made that commitment and we have made that available. The NHS is doing its part but some local authorities have not yet chosen to make that available and, because…14 May 2019HANSARD HealthI will give way one final time, but I want to leave some time for Back-Bench speeches.14 May 2019HANSARD HealthWe are putting money in, and we are putting commitment in. The NHS was proposed from this Dispatch Box by a Conservative Minister, under a Conservative Prime Minister, and its…14 May 2019