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HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesI congratulate my right hon. Friend for his extraordinary campaigning on this issue, which has changed the entire debate. Although I recognise that the Government are spending £3…09 Jun 2022HANSARD Health and Social Care Leadership ReviewI thank the Health Secretary for this excellent report and commend Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard for all their work in putting it together. It has some very…08 Jun 2022HANSARDNorth East Ambulance ServiceI thank the Minister, who is a practising nurse, for her profound commitment to patient safety. What happened to Peter Coates, Quinn Evie Beadle and others was a terrible tragedy…23 May 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise to speak in support of Lords amendment 29B. Even though I believe the Government will reject it today and this may be the last time this…25 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State will have read the scandal exposed in The Sunday Times this weekend that six babies are born every month after being exposed to sodium valproate, which has…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillWill the Minister give way?30 Mar 2022HANSARD Ockenden ReportToday’s report goes beyond my darkest fears. When I commissioned it as Health Secretary in 2016, I was approached by 23 families; we have heard today that more than 200 babies…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillIt is absolutely the case. We need something like this because, as I know—I will do my self-reflection now—when a Health Secretary negotiates a spending settlement with the…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillI thank my hon. Friend for that comment. He was an excellent cancer Minister. In our time, the biggest pressure was funding, but now people say that the biggest pressure is…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillLike the shadow Health Secretary, I rise to speak in support of amendment 29, which the Government plan to vote down. This wholly innocuous amendment simply asks them to publish,…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Health and Care BillCould the Minister possibly just tell me whether there is a single NHS organisation that is not supporting Lords amendment 29, which the Government are planning to reject?30 Mar 2022HANSARDIran DetaineesI salute the leadership of the Foreign Secretary on this issue. As I know from my own experience, this is a fearsomely difficult diplomatic challenge, and it would not have been…16 Mar 2022HANSARD Refugees from UkraineI welcome today’s announcement and thank the Home Secretary for listening to the House. My constituent Larry Sullivan owns a technology business in Russia and has some very able…10 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsYesterday, the Foreign Secretary said that one of the things that pained her the most was the sale of embassy buildings over many years and she hoped no more of it would happen on…08 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsToday is the first day of Brain Tumour Awareness Month. The Secretary of State kindly wrote to me in January when my mother died from a brain tumour, and Baroness Tessa Jowell,…01 Mar 2022HANSARDSanctionsMay I commend the resolute approach being taken by my right hon. Friend and ask whether she will consider secondary sanctions—sanctions not against Russian entities but against…28 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineDoes the Prime Minister agree that the international order as envisaged in the Atlantic charter of 1941 has been the most successful in the history of freedom and democracy and…24 Feb 2022HANSARDUkraineI strongly support the robust approach that my right hon. Friend has taken, and that indeed he took as Foreign Secretary, but Putin will have predicted and discounted western…22 Feb 2022HANSARDLiving with Covid-19I support today’s announcement, which is a tribute to British science and to the Government’s leadership in the vaccine programme. Does the Prime Minister agree that when it comes…21 Feb 2022HANSARDIntegration White PaperAs one in the long line of former Health Secretaries with scars on their back—to quote Sir Tony, if we are allowed to—from when they tried to integrate the health and care…09 Feb 2022