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HANSARDDraft Mental Health BillI have published the draft Mental Health Bill today for pre-legislative scrutiny and delivered an oral statement to the house. The draft Bill will enable the Government to deliver…27 Jun 2022HANSARDDraft Mental Health BillI commend my hon. Friend on all the campaigning he has done on mental health and suicide prevention ever since he entered the House. The meetings I have had with him have gone…27 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Life SciencesThe life sciences have played an essential role in helping us to learn to live with covid-19. The UK’s natural strengths, and our world-beating vaccine programme, have allowed us…22 Jun 2022HANSARDMonkeypox UpdateThe United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) yesterday published its updated vaccination strategy in response to the current monkeypox outbreak. Based on the currently…22 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryMaybe the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) can tell us whether she agrees with her hon. Friend the hon. Member for Blackburn (Kate Hollern) on Wales.21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryThat is a very strange comment about the hon. Lady’s colleagues in Wales. Either she does not know or she is deliberately saying something she does not quite believe. Perhaps I…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryI would like to hear what the hon. Lady thinks of the Labour Government in Wales and their abysmal performance when it comes to healthcare.21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryYes, absolutely. I know my hon. Friend speaks with great experience in this area. I am just about to come on to some of the changes we will be making to primary care, which I am…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryYes, I am. I have seen the report my hon. Friend refers to and have discussed aspects of it with its authors, so the short answer is yes.21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryI am happy to talk about that. Because of the record funding this Government have put in, both pre and post pandemic, we are seeing record increases in the workforce across the…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryAs I said—I am glad that the hon. Gentleman was listening—there have been record levels of funding in the NHS, and, as we set out in our spending plans, that will continue. But…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryI will later. In terms of the changes we are making, let me first turn to primary care. The hon. Member for Ilford North, in his motion today, is calling on me to “urgently bring…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryI will, and I will get back to my hon. Friend on that issue with more detail. I hope he welcomes the investment we are seeing and the record numbers of doctors and GPs in training.21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryWe are working with our colleagues in the Home Office on this and other skills and healthcare issues, so I can give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. He talks about the major…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryI will in a moment. If there is one thing that unites all our work on primary care and dentistry, it is this. We are shifting to a new mode of operating—one that is about helping…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryI am sorry to hear about the right hon. Gentleman’s constituent. If he will allow me, in a moment, I will come on to the pressures that dentistry is facing and, most importantly,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryMy right hon. Friend’s point is important and well made, and I will look at the issue closely and get back to him, if I may. As we have already heard today—but it is such an…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryI do not have the exact figures to hand, but I know that millions of pounds were drawn down and used to deliver tens of thousands of appointments across the country. That made a…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryThe hon. Gentleman is now using the past tense. A moment ago, he claimed that it was under threat. He clearly has no issues with giving false information in this House. The truth…21 Jun 2022HANSARDAccess to GP Services and NHS DentistryMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right in his analysis, and I can give that undertaking. I will say a bit more about that in a moment. If the hon. Member for Ilford North wants…21 Jun 2022