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HANSARD Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG: Funding PressuresThis is prejudging the tennis season, in that we can go backwards and forwards, but let me say for the record that if I misled the hon. Lady I apologise wholeheartedly. I agreed…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG: Funding PressuresI am sorry—either I did not make myself clear, or the hon. Lady misheard me. I said that the population growth was 0.6% above the England average over the last four years. The…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG: Funding PressuresIt is a pleasure, as ever, to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I thank the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Heidi Allen) for bringing forward this debate. I know…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG: Funding PressuresThat will partially be a decision for the CCG. I do not recognise exactly what the hon. Gentleman has said; I have said that an additional amount of money is going in. I accept…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG: Funding PressuresThe Prime Minister has rightly been telling people that there is a huge commitment to put more money into the NHS. Throughout the debate, I have recognised that the moneys that…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG: Funding PressuresThe hon. Lady will know that some of those core mandated services are providing core services as well. I am happy for the hon. Member for Cambridge to correct me, but my…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG: Funding PressuresI will say two things to the hon. Lady. First, the reflection of the formula and the increase in the money is coming through this year and next year. We have spoken about the…11 Jun 2019HANSARDHistoric Patient Safety Incidents: Liverpool Community Health NHS TrustThe report of an independent review conducted by Dr Bill Kirkup into the widespread failings by Liverpool Community Health Trust was published on 8 February 2018. The report…06 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanMy right hon. Friend—I am sorry, my hon. Friend; I am only presaging something that will happen in future—will know that when my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State speaks he…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanI am confident that we are putting in place the measures that will allow those targets to be met. There is a comprehensive expansion of mental health services, with an additional…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanMy hon. Friend makes a very powerful statement on behalf of her constituents about the change of leadership. I am obviously aware of the change of leadership, including the…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanI am sure they will also have said that one of the things Health Education England has explicitly set out is that one of the biggest barriers to more nurses was that there was not…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanI thank my hon. Friend for that question. The Department will launch the consultation at the end of this month. It will set out the proposals, which we spoke about yesterday, to…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanIt is not a privatisation of the NHS; it is a scheme allowing greater access to GP services. The hon. Gentleman will know that it is delivering healthcare to a number of his…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanThe hon. Gentleman is right: this is a serious plan. As he rightly points out, it is an interim plan. It sets out a number of specific actions for this year. It also sets out a…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanI welcome Labour’s commitment to publish a paper, but the hon. Lady will know that the Department is going to publish a Green Paper on adult social care. We are finalising that. […05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanThe good news is that I think the hon. Lady was agreeing with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, who set that out yesterday. I welcome the fact that she supports him.05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanThe NHS published its interim people plan on Monday, and I laid a written ministerial statement at the earliest opportunity yesterday. The plan is a first, but critically…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanThe House will have listened to the hon. Gentleman. It is important to put out some facts, which were missing from his fact-free analysis. For example, we have had 52,000 more…05 Jun 2019HANSARDInterim NHS People PlanPerhaps that is the soundbite that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues—including the hon. Member for Dewsbury, who is shouting across the Chamber yet again—should remember.05 Jun 2019