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HANSARD Patient Safety ReviewI am listening very carefully to what the Minister is saying. She has engaged positively with the questions I have asked, but she has actually made the case for keeping HSSIB…06 Jul 2026HANSARD Patient Safety ReviewI thank the hon. Gentleman. Recommendation 1 in the Dash review says that the new National Quality Board should “avoid unfunded mandates being imposed on the system without due…06 Jul 2026HANSARD Patient Safety ReviewI am grateful for this opportunity to evaluate the Dash review of patient safety, and I thank the Minister for the meeting with her this afternoon. I hope that the House and Penny…06 Jul 2026HANSARD Patient Safety ReviewI 100% agree with my right hon. Friend. He will note that I will pick up on those points during my remarks. I come back to the questions that I want to put to the Secretary of…06 Jul 2026HANSARD Patient Safety ReviewVery briefly—I have a lot to say.06 Jul 2026HANSARDDefence Investment PlanCan I return to the efficiency savings that are forecast to be made? There are to be savings of £10.7 billion—£7 billion to come from resource spending and £3.7 to come from…30 Jun 2026HANSARD National Maternity and Neonatal InvestigationWill the Secretary of State keep an open mind as to whether it is right to abolish the Health Services Safety Investigations Body, which was specifically designed to provide for a…30 Jun 2026HANSARD Puberty BlockersAs a consultant paediatrician, my hon. Friend will be able to give a definitive view on this matter. Some who campaign for this treatment and therapy argue that the effects of…23 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026I am making a speech, which I am entitled to do. In the case I mentioned, where there is supposedly a strategy, we seem to be planning to build a garden community without the…17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026I think I am within the scope of the regulations, Ms Jardine, because the amendments relate to the use of the term “strategy” in the primary legislation. I do not think I am out…17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026rose—17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026I am grateful for the opportunity to say a few words. Can we first admit that the Government’s policy of building all these houses is not going terribly well, and that it is not a…17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026It is a whole of Government report.17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026Will the Minister give way?17 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026It is about the draft regulations, because they include the word “strategy”. The Minister cannot escape the consequences of that. The report to which I referred was a Liaison…17 Jun 2026HANSARDDefence Investment PlanDoes the Minister realise how utterly discredited the Government now look? We all understand that a majority of Members of this House want the Government to take the necessary…15 Jun 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseFirst, I add my voice to the tributes to Sir Alex Younger, who died so young and is such a great loss to the nation. What consideration are the Government giving to…04 Jun 2026HANSARD Russian Attacks on Civilian InfrastructureIs it not clear that this escalation is a portent of what Russia intends to do as it begins to lose this war? Only a few months ago there was a general view that Russia was…04 Jun 2026HANSARD Health BillI am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the HSSIB question. The Dash review accused HSSIB of exceeding its remit. That is completely wrong in law, and it was always…01 Jun 2026HANSARD Health BillClause 59 states: “The Health Services Safety Investigations Body is abolished.” It is going to be abolished.01 Jun 2026