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HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateToday, I am updating the House on the Department for Health and Social Care’s plans for the continuity of reciprocal healthcare arrangements in the event we exit the EU without a…19 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Health and Social CareThere are so many issues that I could tackle in the next three minutes. However, as the hon. Gentleman will have seen, the long-term plan has ambitions to ensure that there are…19 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Health and Social CareVery quickly.19 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Health and Social CareI am about to, if the hon. Lady will give me time, which is why I will not take her intervention. The hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) asked about NHS investment. He…19 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Health and Social CareHad the hon. Lady joined me in walking through the Lobby to vote for the withdrawal agreement—so that Brexit would happen on 29 March and leaving without a deal would be…19 Mar 2019HANSARD Integrated Care RegulationsAs the hon. Gentleman knows, the long-term plan has set out that the ICP contracts will be held by public statutory providers. That point has been made and reiterated several…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Integrated Care RegulationsAs the hon. Lady knows, this has been subject to considerable scrutiny. It has been scrutinised by the Health and Social Care Committee, as she has already heard from its…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Integrated Care RegulationsAlthough we oppose the motion, I welcome the opportunity to debate the regulations. The NHS long-term plan, which was published in January, set out a clear blueprint for fully…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Integrated Care RegulationsI can give the Chair of the Select Committee the assurance that the ICP contract will be made available in a controlled and incremental way, conditional on the successful…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Integrated Care RegulationsThe hon. Gentleman is right: it is highly unlikely. More than that, it is stated and restated in the long-term plan that NHS England has the clear expectation that the ICP…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Integrated Care RegulationsAs the hon. Gentleman knows, the NHS has proposed in a recent legislative document that it looks at a number of issues. It is important that that round of engagements takes place,…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Integrated Care RegulationsThe NHS has stated clearly that NHS England’s expectation is that these contracts will be held by public statutory providers. The hon. Lady, who is making a number of points— […18 Mar 2019HANSARD Integrated Care RegulationsOh, she is chuntering at me. While she is chuntering at me, she might like to consider what the King’s Fund has said about the claims of mass privatisation, which is that they are…18 Mar 2019HANSARDHealth and Care Professions Council: Registration FeesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. Like everyone else, I congratulate the hon. Member for Coventry South (Mr Cunningham) on securing this debate. He…14 Mar 2019HANSARDHealth and Care Professions Council: Registration FeesI listened to the hon. Gentleman, and I will make a promise to him. As I pointed out at the beginning of my speech, it is not the Government’s role to tell the regulator how to…14 Mar 2019HANSARDHealth and Care Professions Council: Registration FeesOn oversight of the fee change, there is effectively accountability to Parliament through an order of the Privy Council. The Government will need to introduce an order of the…14 Mar 2019HANSARD Acute NHS Care: South-west HertfordshireIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David, and to respond to my right hon. Friend. I want to say at the outset that one thing we absolutely agree on is what he…13 Mar 2019HANSARD Acute NHS Care: South-west HertfordshireAs my right hon. Friend knows, all Ministers can make an attempt at an answer, but I am sure he would prefer a detailed answer. Therefore, I will make that detailed response to…13 Mar 2019HANSARD Acute NHS Care: South-west HertfordshireI made the point a moment ago that, because the cost of that greenfield site exceeds the £350 million threshold, it has currently been dropped from the shortlist of options. My…13 Mar 2019HANSARDNo-deal EU Exit: Medicines and Medical ProductsToday, I am updating the House on the Department for Health and Social Care’s plans for the continuity of medicines and medical products in the event we exit the EU without a…25 Feb 2019