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HANSARDTopical QuestionsOur 10-year plan will boost support for family carers via digital tools such as My Carer and include them in care planning and shared decision-making processes. We have raised the…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have inherited a system that is utterly failing to meet the needs of children with special educational needs. This Government are reforming the SEND system, ensuring that there…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI commend my hon. Friend for bringing his personal experience to bear on this important matter. NHS England’s independent ADHD taskforce is looking at how to provide support for…22 Jul 2025HANSARDUrgent Eyecare: East YorkshireI am very sorry to hear of Scott’s experience. What the right hon. Gentleman has outlined is clearly unacceptable. I will absolutely follow up on that issue with officials and…22 Jul 2025HANSARDUrgent Eyecare: East YorkshireThe right hon. Member’s constituents can access urgent eyecare services from Hull University teaching hospitals NHS trust 24 hours a day, seven days a week and from a range of…22 Jul 2025HANSARDMental Health Research Funding: Eating DisordersWe remain in close contact with all our colleagues in all the devolved Administrations. I will certainly be following up with officials as we develop the research programmes that…22 Jul 2025HANSARDMental Health Research Funding: Eating DisordersI know that this subject is close to my hon. Friend’s heart, and I pay tribute to him for his work on it. We recognise the devastating impact that an eating disorder can have, and…22 Jul 2025HANSARDMental Health Research Funding: Eating DisordersThrough the National Institute for Health and Care Research, the Department is committed to finding new ways of tackling eating disorders through research. We are supporting…22 Jul 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood Health Centre: Long CrendonThe hon. Member is clearly a doughty campaigner—I am sure that will mean something good will happen for him in the reshuffle that we are all watching with bated breath. I am happy…22 Jul 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood Health Centre: Long CrendonThis Government aim to establish a neighbourhood health centre in every community by 2035. We are starting in areas of greatest need where healthy life expectancy is lowest,…22 Jul 2025HANSARD Rare Cancers BillI again congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur). It is a huge achievement for a colleague who has only served in this place for just over a…11 Jul 2025HANSARD Rare Cancers BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur) for bringing this Bill before the House, and I congratulate him on getting it to Report. Amendment…11 Jul 2025HANSARD Glaucoma AwarenessThank you, Mr Pritchard. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship. I thank the hon. Member for Leicester South (Shockat Adam) for securing this important debate to raise…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Glaucoma AwarenessI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. In our manifesto, we of course set a target of 2 million additional appointments within the first year of a Labour Government,…09 Jul 2025HANSARDNHS Dental Contract Reforms: ConsultationAs set out in the 10-year health plan, the Government are launching a public consultation on a package of reforms to improve the current NHS dental contract, representing the next…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Down’s Syndrome Regression DisorderIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Jeremy. I thank and pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) for securing this important debate. I…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Down’s Syndrome Regression DisorderAs the Government have made clear throughout the debate on reforming the welfare system, those who need to be supported and protected will be supported and protected, so I can…08 Jul 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandThe hon. Member raises an interesting point. We are thinking strategically about the whole way that recruitment and workforce function. Similarly, on another part of my portfolio,…25 Jun 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandIn debates about how we deliver health and care in our country, the question often comes up about the balance between the role of the DHSC at the centre, the role of ICBs and the…25 Jun 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandI am impressed by the way the hon. Gentleman did that and I congratulate him on it. If he would care to write to me to set that out, I will have a look at it and get back to him.…25 Jun 2025