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HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI saw that important report, and we have to tackle the problem from both the health end and the economic end. Spending on health in the north grew from £36.5 billion in 2018-19 to…06 Dec 2022HANSARDHealth InequalitiesWe are taking action on public health across the board. The £3 billion that we are investing in the drugs strategy will create an extra 50,000 places in drug treatment. We have…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Dental ContractAs well as increasing the number of dentists doing NHS work and the amount of work being done, we are taking further steps to look to the longer term and build NHS dentistry. The…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Dental ContractAbsolutely; my hon. Friend and I have talked about this. We are looking urgently at payment models and measures to address areas that are struggling to attract the right…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Dental ContractIn July, we made some initial changes to the reformed system to support NHS dentistry. We have invested an extra £50 million, reformed the contract to create more UDA—unit of…06 Dec 2022HANSARD Government PPE ContractsThere are so many questions that I do not know who to give way to, but I think I should start with the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent.06 Dec 2022HANSARDWorld AIDS DayLet me start by congratulating all Members from across the House who have taken part in what has been an incredibly informative and high quality debate. Let me join others in…01 Dec 2022HANSARDWorld AIDS DayThat is certainly something I will take away and look at. As the hon. Gentleman points out, there are a number of challenges in doing that and in unpicking the activities of…01 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma.…28 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022To take some of the important questions raised by the Opposition in reverse order, the hon. Member for Cambridge is right that there are no substantive changes on edible insects.…28 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementThe right hon. Lady asks two main questions, the first of which is what we are doing on PPE Medpro. It has been widely reported that it had an underperforming contract. Let me set…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementInevitably, a huge amount of the PPE that is produced in the world is produced by private companies. There is no world in which we could avoid the use of private companies to…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementI mentioned that due diligence was done on more than 19,000 companies—a huge number of companies and people got in touch to offer to help—but let us continue that conversation. I…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementWe keep all those things under review, but the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill is part of addressing some of the issues that the hon. Lady is concerned about. We…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementI set out earlier what the high priority route was and was not: it was absolutely not a guarantee of any kind of contract; it was a way of managing the huge numbers of contacts…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementI do not have that information to hand, but I have a seat on the edge of Leicester, an important textiles town, and I had loads of constituents get in touch with me to ask, “Where…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementThe hon. Lady’s question takes us back to that extraordinary moment when we had a huge crisis of PPE, and we were desperate and doing every conceivable thing we could to get the…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementThe hon. Gentleman always makes constructive suggestions, and today is no exception. He knows that we have an ongoing inquiry into the lessons that can be learned and a dialogue…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementThe people who came through the high-priority route were not politically connected people, except in the sense that they were being referred by MPs across the House. I do not know…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Covid-19: PPE ProcurementI will look closely at all the suggestions that the hon. Member makes. I have not had a chance to look at the Bill, but I am sure that we are always in the market for constructive…24 Nov 2022