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HANSARDRural AffairsI promise that I will give way in a moment. As the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness and my right hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (John Glen) have both said, the sense of…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsThe hon. Lady is new to her place. As Financial Secretary to the Treasury I used to collect taxes for the United Kingdom and as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care I…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsYou couldn’t make it up, could you? This is what is so worrying. This is why, at the beginning, I talked about a Labour Government who do not understand and do not care, and it is…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsMy right hon. Friend makes an important point about our experience as Treasury Ministers. Labour Back Benchers are shouting “Give way!” because they do not like hearing the truth.…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsI know the hon. Gentleman’s part of the world very well and I am sure—I can sense that he will be a conscientious local MP, mindful of his small majority—that he will badger the…11 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAfter 14 years of opposition—two and a half of which the Secretary of State spent on the Front Bench and travelling around the world, funded by other Governments, to look at their…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAfter Labour’s cruel decision to slash winter fuel payments, which will add pressure to the NHS, its deputy chief operating officer warned that this winter our health service will…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI congratulate all nominees and winners in the NHS parliamentary awards yesterday. Their success was richly deserved, and the awards were a very good example of the House coming…15 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI will give way to the doctor behind me, and then I will give way again.07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI will make some progress, because I know that I am trying your patience, Madam Deputy Speaker. Lord Darzi says that prevention is better than cure. We agree. The Government say…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI think the hon. Lady did not hear me; I said that cancer is the biggest killer of children under the age of 14, not 40. I know only too well how that terrible brain cancer has…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationWe entered into that negotiation in good faith, and I gently remind Labour Members of Parliament who were here before the last election that again and again I asked the right hon.…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationRight, okay. We have that on the record now and we will wait to see what happens at the Budget. It is also striking that the report mentions pay and wages only twice in 163 pages,…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationAs the right hon. Gentleman knows, calculations were made in the Treasury for this economic inheritance, but the Treasury cannot even explain how it has arrived at those…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI hope the hon. Gentleman knows by now that when he makes a suggestion, I will take it away. He will appreciate that, as part of a constructive Opposition, I want to look…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationFirst, I am very sorry to hear that. Again, the way we were trying to deal with the enormous increase we have seen in mental ill health across our country was first of all to…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationAs the right hon. Gentleman knows, because I imagine he will have got exactly the same briefing I used to get when I was in his shoes and being advised by exactly the same civil…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI will help the hon. Gentleman, because I appreciate that he is new to this place. If he had been listening carefully to me, he would have heard that I am and have always been—in…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI will listen to the hon. Gentleman. [ Interruption. ] I am very generous with interventions, and I know that he brings expertise and experience to the House as well.07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI thank my hon. Friend, who brings his clinical experience and expertise to this debate. I say frankly to the Secretary of State that I wish he had taken the approach of the…07 Oct 2024