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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI gently remind the hon. Lady about the statement that I just gave. Last week we held the women’s health summit, at which I announced that we are encouraging research into…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is aware of my knowledge not only of that hospital, but of her local area. I will look into this matter for her, because I want to ensure that the good people of…23 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS: Winter PressuresOur plan includes opening 5,000 more beds, increasing ambulance capacity, expanding innovative services such as virtual wards and bringing forward covid and flu vaccinations for…23 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS: Winter PressuresI am sure that the hon. Gentleman is a fair man, and that, being so, he will point out to his constituents, when they call him with their issues, that ambulance response times for…23 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS: Winter PressuresI genuinely want to work with the Scottish Government, because I am troubled, to put it bluntly, that Scotland has some of the worst health outcomes in western Europe. It has the…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my right hon. Friend for commissioning that vital piece of work. I am giving the matter my closest attention, and I hope very much to be in a position to respond to his…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my right hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Dehenna Davison) for bringing two amazing women to talk to me about the impact of lobular cancer.…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are ensuring that community pharmacists have an even greater role in primary care than they have already. For example, we saw the first stage of the roll-out of Pharmacy First…23 Jan 2024HANSARDAlcohol-dependent Parents: Support for ChildrenMay I start by wishing the hon. Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting) a speedy recovery? We are taking a wide-ranging approach to alcohol harms. Some £27 million has been…23 Jan 2024HANSARDAlcohol-dependent Parents: Support for ChildrenMay I thank my hon. Friend for her care and also for sharing her experiences on this subject? Through the drugs strategy, we have committed an extra £532 million of funding over…23 Jan 2024HANSARDIn-patient Units: People with Learning DisabilitiesWe have made progress against our target to reduce learning disability and autism in-patient numbers in England by 50% since 2015. For people with a learning disability without an…23 Jan 2024HANSARDAlcohol-dependent Parents: Support for ChildrenI thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing some insight into how we can best reach families. Of course, it is not just mums, but fathers or carers who can have a huge impact on our…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMidwifery and Maternity ServicesWe are investing an additional £165 million a year to improve maternity and neonatal care, rising to £186 million a year from April. This will increase the number of midwifery…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMidwifery and Maternity ServicesI think we all agree that a career as a midwife is just one of the most rewarding and fulfilling careers that one can hope for. That is why we have placed such priority on…23 Jan 2024HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyAfter a successful first year implementing the women’s health strategy for England, I am pleased to update on our priorities for 2024. Improving care before, during and after…17 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend. His intervention shows the level of detail that colleagues on the Conservative Benches have gone into in trying to address the…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady, who makes a fair point about measuring within the system how much work NHS dentists are doing. As I say, we are looking at all of this in…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI am going to plough on, I am afraid. Earlier, Labour Front Benchers—perhaps not understanding that they were doing so—set out the philosophical difference between our two parties…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI will resist, but only because I am going to ask the hon. Gentleman to intervene in a moment—he should be careful what he wishes for. I also notice that he talked about reform of…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI trust that the hon. Lady has been listening to the whole debate, because I set this out in some detail at the beginning of my speech. I will not repeat the impact of the…09 Jan 2024