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HANSARDDental Health: Older PeopleI will touch on that, but I take my hon. Friend’s point. I will make sure it is flagged up in writing as a note from me, the Minister, to the relevant officials as a response to…27 Feb 2019HANSARDDental Health: Older PeopleI realise that a debate on older people’s dental health is merely of passing interest to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, as you are many years from it being of direct interest, but I hope…27 Feb 2019HANSARDFoods Standards Agency: Contingencies Fund Cash AdvanceThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) is seeking an advance from the Contingencies Fund to meet its cash funding obligations relating to preparation work for EU exit. This work has been…25 Feb 2019HANSARDNHS Prescription ChargesMy right hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Baroness Blackwood) has made the following written statement: Regulations will shortly be laid before Parliament…21 Feb 2019HANSARDSunbed Use: Health ImplicationsIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Hosie. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) very much. We use the term “hon. Friend” a lot in this place,…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]It is good to see the hon. Gentleman on his feet, but I hate to see him grumpy. He will have my response to his all-party group next week. I promised him a recommendation by…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]She’s nicer than me.12 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerWe do not often use the term, “No decision about me, without me” any more, but I always remember the former Health Secretary—now Lord Lansley—using that a lot, and that is still…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerIt is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. Here we are again and for once we are not in a rush. It will be dark outside before we finish. I…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerI do not have that figure with me today, but I will write to Members attending the debate and I will tweet it @BrineMinister—but enough of the advert. Early diagnosis and the NHS…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerI am happy to agree with the hon. Lady. In her work on brain cancer, the late Baroness Jowell made the point about stimulating new research projects, and that work has been…06 Feb 2019HANSARD OrkambiIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair for the Adjournment debate, Mr Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for North Herefordshire (Bill Wiggin) and all Members who have…04 Feb 2019HANSARD OrkambiI will not. The hon. Member for Dudley North (Ian Austin) talked about breaking the impasse and breaking the deadlock. I said in response to the point from my hon. Friend about…04 Feb 2019HANSARD OrkambiI said I would not. I think the House gets a minuscule sense of my frustration about the situation. I want this sorted. I have constituents who contact me about this too. I am…04 Feb 2019HANSARD OrkambiJust because I cannot resist the hon. Gentleman, I will give way to him.04 Feb 2019HANSARD OrkambiIn response to the hon. Gentleman and to one of the other interventions about compromise and meeting in the middle—there is lots of talk about compromise at the moment—I suggest…04 Feb 2019HANSARD OrkambiI will give way once—and that is it—to the hon. Gentleman who rose first.04 Feb 2019HANSARD OrkambiOkay, the hon. Gentleman has got his press release with his intervention. Perhaps I should go back on what I said at the start. All he has done is to take away time, on what is a…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNegotiations for Primary Care Contract for GPs 2019-20I am today updating the House on the outcome of the negotiations on the primary care contract for GPs between the General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical…31 Jan 2019HANSARD World Cancer DayAs ever, time is short, so I cannot answer everyone’s questions, but that is the nature of Westminster Hall. It is nice to see you in the Chair, Sir Christopher. It is an honour,…30 Jan 2019