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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI warmly welcome the Secretary of State’s decision and the cross-party consensus behind it. Medicine is based on science and the vaccine is the best of science, and we should use…09 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I welcome the Secretary of State’s early focus on illiteracy and tackling illiteracy? As a proud dyslexic, I ask him whether he agrees with me that we cannot tackle illiteracy…01 Nov 2021HANSARDSmoking Cessation: Prescription of E-cigarettesI welcome not only the Minister’s emphatic support for the cessation of smoking by 2030 as a target, but the cross-party support. We have seen in this short discussion today…01 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThanks for the warning, Mr Speaker. I congratulate the Secretary of State and the new vaccines Minister—the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, my hon. Friend the…19 Oct 2021HANSARDHorse RacingI thank Mr Speaker for granting this debate at what is a critical time for the British horse racing industry. Racing is a sport that means so much to me, not only because I love…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHorse RacingI do, and I will come on to that point, because it is at the nub of how we ensure that we have a flourishing industry while taking into account the impact of gambling-related…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHorse RacingMy hon. Friend has made his point very clearly. Thanks to the vaccine, we have been able to reopen racing after more than a year in which there were no crowds—and for 11 weeks in…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHorse RacingI certainly do not want to see another lockdown, and I know that the right hon. Gentleman does not, because he was unenthusiastic about the ones that we had in the past. I do not…23 Sept 2021HANSARDHorse RacingYes I will, and I can see the Ministers discussing exactly that question right now on the Front Bench. This is another issue that needs to be resolved. It is another loophole in…23 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillBuilding on the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (John Redwood), is not one of the advantages of having a separate health and social care levy that, as…14 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsCould the Secretary of State—or the Minister for Pensions, who is doing such great work in this area—explain what they are doing to ensure that when pensions are invested, the…13 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe reform of social care has been ducked for decades because successive Governments have put it in the too difficult box. I congratulate the Prime Minister on delivering on our…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHelping Young People into Work: Covid-19The combination of the furlough scheme, the kickstart scheme and the youth offer the Chancellor has just discussed shows that his efforts are leading to the UK having one of the…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Use of Patient DataI have come to the House today to answer this debate because of the importance of the subject matter and the importance of getting this right. I recognise and acknowledge the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDDraft Health and Care Data StrategyI would like to inform the House that the draft strategy “Data Saves Lives: Reshaping health and social care with data” has been published today by NHSX and builds on the…22 Jun 2021HANSARD CoronavirusYes we will, for exactly the reason that the hon. Gentleman sets out.16 Jun 2021HANSARD CoronavirusI bring to the House these regulations to change the date of implementation of step 4 of the Government’s road map. On 8 December last year, we fired the starting gun on the race…16 Jun 2021HANSARD CoronavirusWith flu, of course, if people have symptomatic flu and are ill, they do tend to stay at home. Of course we have not done that on a mandatory basis before, but it is advisable…16 Jun 2021HANSARD CoronavirusMy right hon. Friend makes a really important point. The answer is that the majority are in the younger age group who have not yet had the chance to be vaccinated. Just under one…16 Jun 2021HANSARD CoronavirusI would dearly love that, and I will talk to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, who, as I well know, is an enthusiast. I would love it if we could make that so—let us…16 Jun 2021