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HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI am going to make some progress. One of the choices facing the Health Secretary is whether he will fight for the investment required from the Treasury to implement the…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationIn one moment. Of course, it is important that we focus relentlessly on those patients who do not receive good care, but that will not be achieved by writing off the 1.5 million…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI will finish this point. That transition must begin with the language that the Secretary of State is choosing to use about the NHS. Interestingly, we have heard a little bit of…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationOn this, the first anniversary of Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel, our thoughts are with Israel, the victims of that horrific attack and their loved ones, and with all those who…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationI will happily intervene. That is simply incorrect. There are a couple of points that the Secretary of State has made that are completely wrong, which I will have to correct in my…07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationThat is nonsense.07 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationThank you, Mr Speaker. We on the Conservative Benches never pretended that everything was fixed. We have not pretended that we have a monopoly on wisdom or that there are easy…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationThe right hon. Gentleman was chuntering from a sedentary position. We on the— [Interruption.]12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationThank you, Mr Speaker. I thank the Secretary of State for advance notice of his statement. The NHS belongs to us all, and we all care about it, so let us stop the political…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationThank you, Mr Speaker. There is one part of Great Britain where, on almost every measure, the NHS performs the worst: Labour-run Wales. The right hon. Gentleman has compared—12 Sept 2024HANSARDGovernment Policy on HealthI fear that the right hon. Gentleman is betraying his inexperience. It is a shame that he needs all that help and experience; the rest of us have just got on with the job. The…09 Sept 2024HANSARDGovernment Policy on Health(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement on the involvement of people with no formal appointment in the development…09 Sept 2024HANSARDGovernment Policy on HealthIt is always nice to see the right hon. Gentleman, but I was expecting to see the actual Secretary of State respond to this question. Perhaps he is at a business meeting with…09 Sept 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I welcome the Secretary of State and his ministerial team to their places, and wish them well in their endeavours? With your indulgence, Mr Speaker, I should also place on the…23 Jul 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am afraid I do not like it when Secretaries of State do not answer questions, and I am sorry to say that the right hon. Gentleman gave another non-answer, as has been the case…23 Jul 2024HANSARD NHSMy hon. Friend has devoted her career in this place not only to representing the steelworkers in her constituency, but to her constituents’ healthcare, and it is thanks to her…23 May 2024HANSARD NHSI thank my hon. Friend not just for his question, which was excellent as always, but for his long record in the House, particularly in the world of healthcare. He was a superb…23 May 2024HANSARD NHSI welcome the hon. Gentleman to his place, and I say to him that Blackpool has a very special place in my heart, because I went to school there. Indeed, I could hear the cheers…23 May 2024HANSARD NHSI thank my hon. Friend not just for his early commitment to the medical profession, but for his work as a Health Minister. He did so much to help prepare the dental recovery plan,…23 May 2024HANSARD NHSI congratulate my hon. Friend on the opening of those services. I look forward to attending that opening with him and colleagues across his area. In the dental recovery plan I set…23 May 2024