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HANSARDPublic HealthI do not think I would call directors of public health “activists”, although I understand that some of them play it very differently from us. It is the job of this place to get…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthHaving been a Minister of the Crown, I hope that the regulations have been through the right-round process, albeit an accelerated right-round process, but my right hon. Friend is…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI thank my right hon. Friend for his comments, which will have been heard on the Treasury Bench. I do not understand the timing here. What will we really know in three weeks’ time…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI do accept that, and I also accept that the scientists who discovered the variant said on the media at the weekend that this was often a less serious disease than the delta…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI know that the Minister has been looking into the matter for me. We have not teed this up, Mr Deputy Speaker, but she is kindly going to intervene.30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI greatly appreciate that. The Minister is a good friend, and I know she is sincere. This morning I sent her some correspondence between me and the head of the new integrated care…30 Nov 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI welcome the widening of the booster programme that the Secretary of State announced, but my constituents still have no walk-in access in Winchester. I would therefore really…29 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingIt is such a shame to see my right hon. and learned Friend not in Government, but such a pleasure to have him on the Back Benches and to be here for his first speech from the Back…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingI am so pleased that my right hon. and learned Friend made the point that social care is not just about older people. That is so important. What he is actually talking about—who…16 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26May I add my thanks to the Prime Minister and the unflappable, unstoppable COP26 President sitting beside him? It is plain to hear that they have really put themselves out there,…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]This is an excellent Bill which deserves a Second Reading tonight. One college that my right hon. Friend knows well is Peter Symonds, in my constituency, which is transforming…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe Secretary of State knows I am a firm believer in the vaccination programme, and I support everything he has announced today. That programme includes the booster, of course,…15 Nov 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaMy good friend and the very excellent Minister is going to help me out here, because he said that we will hold the NHS to account for these plans. He knows that I have raised this…25 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI am so glad that my hon. Friend is opening her speech by talking about local action, on top of the international change that the Government can instigate. Winchester Area…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI thank the hon. Member for opening the debate, and she knows I listen carefully to what she says. I really welcome the net zero strategy the Government announced this week. I…21 Oct 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government ResponseThe news of the new antiviral treatments that we heard about yesterday is very welcome, as is, of course, the fastest vaccine roll-out programme in the world. We voted to break…21 Oct 2021HANSARD UK Gas MarketWe have heard a typically reliable and reassuring statement from my right hon. Friend. He mentioned the Ofgem guarantee for when a supplier fails. Will that guarantee protect…20 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillWill my right hon. Friend use his position on the Select Committee and his vast experience to scrutinise this plan, which I mentioned to the Minister but which I know the…14 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI welcome much of what is a sensible plan from the Secretary of State, although I have a creeping feeling that we are preparing to treat flu like covid, more than the other way…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillIn my experience of being a Minister at the Department of Health—with my right hon. Friend, indeed—Treasury Ministers do not like to spend billions of pounds without knowing…14 Sept 2021