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HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandI start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for South Norfolk (Mr Bacon) for securing this important debate. It was reminder of what a brilliant speaker he is. Dentistry is the…16 May 2023HANSARDFood Labelling and AllergiesI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) for introducing this debate and for doing an excellent job of setting out the issues, and I thank all hon. Members…15 May 2023HANSARDHealth Inequalities: North-west LondonThere is not actually a date for that paper yet, but it will be out relatively shortly. We are tackling the major conditions because these health disparities that we are all…15 May 2023HANSARDHealth Inequalities: North-west LondonWell, how to follow that? I pay tribute to the hon. Lady for securing this important debate and for her wide-ranging speech. It was so wide ranging that I think I will struggle to…15 May 2023HANSARDFood Labelling and AllergiesThat is a perfectly reasonable point. Of course, safety has to come first; I am merely laying out some of the challenges that we are grappling with as we think about Owen’s law…15 May 2023HANSARDFood Labelling and AllergiesTo reiterate what I said at the start of my remarks, I am mentioning some of the issues that we have to solve, not presenting them as insuperable obstacles to doing what a lot of…15 May 2023HANSARD Vaping: Under-18sMy hon. Friend is quite probably right. There is a lack of understanding of some of the risks, and of the effects on mental health and wellbeing. I am very, very worried when I…02 May 2023HANSARD Vaping: Under-18sAbsolutely, and I will touch on that in just one moment. Vapes—02 May 2023HANSARD Vaping: Under-18sI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border (Dr Hudson) for securing this very important and timely debate on youth vaping, and for his excellent speech. Lots of…02 May 2023HANSARD Vaping: Under-18sI think I should try to answer the last intervention before taking another one; I will come back to my hon. Friend in a second. Vapes are not yet being used widely enough to reach…02 May 2023HANSARD Vaping: Under-18sClosely. I am also listening to my hon. Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Dr Johnson), who has led discussion on the subject through her ten-minute rule Bill. She…02 May 2023HANSARD Vaping: Under-18sMy hon. Friend is right, and I will come to that in a moment. The call for evidence that I talked about will be open for the next eight weeks, and we hope that everyone concerned…02 May 2023HANSARD Vaping: Under-18sAbsolutely, and I hope people will put in evidence on that. I will touch in a moment on something else we are doing. In the speech I mentioned, I announced the new specialised…02 May 2023HANSARD Vaping: Under-18sMy hon. Friend has pre-empted my next paragraph almost perfectly. I was about to say that although we want to ensure that children do not take up vaping, vaping can play an…02 May 2023HANSARDReforms to NHS DentistryI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) and the hon. Member for Bradford South (Judith Cummins) for securing this important and timely debate as we work on…27 Apr 2023HANSARDReforms to NHS Dentistryindicated assent.27 Apr 2023HANSARDReforms to NHS DentistryThe hon. Lady is right; in dentistry, not only do we have headcount measures showing that six and a bit per cent. more dentists are doing NHS work, but we can see the amount they…27 Apr 2023HANSARDReforms to NHS DentistryI have mentioned some things that are already changing—some of the first reforms to the contract since 2006 that we have started to bring in. We are working on the plan at pace.…27 Apr 2023HANSARDNHS Dental ServicesThere are 6% more dentists doing NHS work than in 2010, and activity levels are going up. In March the number of patients seen over the past year was up by nearly a fifth on the…25 Apr 2023HANSARDNHS Dental ServicesWe are looking at the dentist, hygienist and therapist workforces as part of the long-term NHS workforce plan. I can reveal that this is not the first time my hon. Friend has…25 Apr 2023