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HANSARDLocal Dental ProvisionAbsolutely. My hon. Friend has been a formidable campaigner on this issue. I know he met the Secretary of State to talk about it in the summer. It is a pleasure to have talked to…01 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn the hon. Gentleman’s local NHS this year there were 758 active NHS dentists, up from 736 in the previous year. I have already mentioned some of the steps we are taking to…01 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend’s question gives me an opportunity to thank her for her fantastic work on vaccinations and our world-leading roll-out of vaccines across the country. She has also…01 Nov 2022HANSARDLocal Dental ProvisionMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The shift to ICBs is right and it is an opportunity to integrate services in a way that has not been done before. She is right to stress…01 Nov 2022HANSARDLocal Dental ProvisionThe hon. Lady asks a powerful question. As well as the reforms that we started this summer and I announced in our plan for patients, as we start to think about the next dental…01 Nov 2022HANSARD Kettering General Hospital RedevelopmentIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I congratulate my neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr Hollobone), on securing this important debate.…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Motor Neurone DiseaseI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton South (Andrew Lewer) and the hon. Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden) for securing this important debate, and thank everyone…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Ministry of Justice wants to build a large new prison in my constituency, on a beautiful piece of open land between Lubenham and Foxton. It is completely the wrong place to…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)Yes, I think it is, implicitly. The levelling-up White Paper talks about how, if the boundaries did not quite align and there was a strong desire locally for that, we would look…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)Are some people finding this not thrilling? That is absolutely outrageous—we are getting to the really exciting bits. I will try to enunciate better. It is perfectly reasonable…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)The amendment is not appropriate for two main reasons. First, it uses the term “fullest conferred powers”, which is undefinable and incalculable. Our devolution framework does not…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)We discussed in a previous sitting the new combined county authority model and the associated consultation requirements. At that time, I set out our commitment to ensuring that…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)It is entirely to shape the conversation, as the hon. Gentleman says. It is to give a list of suggestions that may be appropriate, while also allowing others to go for different…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)I believe it to be a necessary step in the Bill. In previous sittings, I set out that our particularism, our respect of local circumstances and our bespoke nature are features,…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is correct to read it as “any other title” that is locally wished for, having respect for the fact that there may be other people with such job titles in the…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)I am extremely sympathetic to hon. Members campaigning on local services. I know that the Home Office has been engaging with the North Yorkshire fire and rescue service…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 31 enables the Secretary of State to make regulations to allow the Mayor of a combined county authority to whom police and crime commissioner and fire and rescue functions…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Tenth sitting)I will give way in a moment, but I will make some progress first. We have already introduced a higher level of stamp duty for the purchase of second homes, and the Bill could…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)The CCA member also holds an elected position for a specific portion of the CCA area, so they are a constituent member. The Mayor’s PCC power covers the entirety of the police…05 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Ninth sitting)The schedule provides detail setting out the areas where the Secretary of State either may or has to make regulations to enable a transfer of PCC functions to a CCA Mayor, and…05 Jul 2022