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HANSARD NHS Dentists: South-West EnglandI feel the exact same sense of burning urgency that my hon. Friend feels. I hope our plan will be out very shortly.24 May 2023HANSARD Dental Care: DurhamThat point is clearly correct, but that is not to disagree with anything that I have just said. Rather than getting into the weeds—I have already read out the official…24 May 2023HANSARD Dental Care: DurhamMy hon. Friend is quite right. Some of those disparities, which can occur from one end of the street to the other, are extremely hard to justify, hence the introduction of the…24 May 2023HANSARD Dental Care: DurhamNHS dentists, yes. Activity is definitely going up—about a fifth more patients were seen in the year ending March than in the year before that—but it is still too low. That is a…24 May 2023HANSARD Dental Care: DurhamI have already read out the statistics. I will not read them out again, and I do not think there is a need to correct the record. The statistics that the hon. Lady is drawing on…24 May 2023HANSARD NHS Dentists: South-West EnglandIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Chris Loder) on securing this incredibly important debate.…24 May 2023HANSARD Cost of Living: Healthy Start SchemeIf this is on the point about data.23 May 2023HANSARD Healthcare Services: Carshalton and WallingtonI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Elliot Colburn) for securing this important debate, and I pay tribute to him for his incredible campaigning work…23 May 2023HANSARD Cost of Living: Healthy Start SchemeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Andrew Western) for securing this debate and to the other…23 May 2023HANSARD Cost of Living: Healthy Start SchemeThe schemes are not completely comparable because the Healthy Start scheme covers a wider base of people, as I mentioned. It goes up to age four rather than age three, so it has a…23 May 2023HANSARD Cost of Living: Healthy Start SchemeI will continue with my points and perhaps come back to the hon. Lady in a moment. Healthy Start is delivered by the NHS Business Services Authority on behalf of the Department.…23 May 2023HANSARD Cost of Living: Healthy Start SchemeWe have chosen to spend over £3,300 per UK household, on average, on the cost of living support. Putting that into the schemes that are available and targeted at people with low…23 May 2023HANSARD Cost of Living: Healthy Start SchemeIf I can just complete the thought, the total cost of living support that the Government have provided is worth more than £94 billion across 2022-23 and 2023-24. That is, on…23 May 2023HANSARD Health Services: Wantage and DidcotI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wantage (David Johnston) on securing this important debate. He mentioned in his remarks that there are limits on what he is allowed to…18 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyUntil there is a date, there is no date, but it will be fairly soon.17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyI am happy to confirm that the workforce plan should be out pretty shortly, and that it will look across the entirety—17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I must begin by thanking the hon. Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) for bringing forward this very important…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyI expect that to be something we can come back on imminently. I will come back on to the main topic of today’s debate. While I acknowledge that we must go much further to address…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyThe hon. Lady has read my mind, because I was about to come on to MECS. We will produce standard service specifications for MECS to reduce the variation that she rightly raised,…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyVery good. As a first step towards the research that the hon. Lady calls for, I commit to doing my own research on the syndrome that she describes, which sounds incredibly…17 May 2023