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HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It also costs us roughly a quarter of a million pounds each time the BMA does this, and we cannot afford to keep paying that. It may say,…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI completely agree with my hon. Friend. The BMA has put the offer to its members in neutral terms, but the fact is that it is now going to run a hasty survey over the next few…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI thank the hon. Gentleman for the first bit. As for the rest of it, let me just say that the NHS workforce plan we inherited came in the 14th year of the Conservative Government.…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI congratulate my hon. Friend on all his campaigning to secure investment in his constituency. One thing I can assure everyone in our country is that NHS leaders, frontline staff…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI entirely agree with my hon. Friend. This is the point that I have impressed on the chair of the resident doctors committee. This deal is not the end of the conversation about…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI am grateful to my hon. Friend and I hope that point is not lost on the BMA. On the Labour Benches, we are the party of labour. We were created by the trade union movement to…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. To be honest, the thing that causes me most anxiety is that, although I know that the NHS is on the road to recovery, we are surrounded by an…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI can give my hon. Friend the assurance that the royal college fees that I outlined in my statement will be covered by us. That will be a material saving in resident doctors’…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI thank the Chair of the Select Committee for that contribution, which is really important on two fronts. First, she is absolutely right that this really is not the time for this…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI should also declare that I am a member of the GMB and Unison. I say to my hon. Friend that there is a striking inconsistency between what the BMA is demanding for its members…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support. He is right to raise concerns about the impact on urgent emergency care. We will do our best to keep the show on the road, but…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. I was about to say that it is always a disappointment when Reform and Green Members do not appear in the Chamber, but I would not want…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionMy hon. Friend has so much expertise on health and on employment rights and trade union law, and he is right. That is why this Government have chosen a different approach. We want…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI regret to say that if the BMA rejects this offer, we will not proceed with it at this time. I wish that we were not in this transactional lock. I wish we could just move forward…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI thank the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for his support, as well as for the constructive challenge. He is absolutely right to describe the challenge that we inherited, and we…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionMy hon. Friend makes a really good point. Sometimes during ballots people who are opposed to industrial action choose not to cast a ballot at all because they know that the…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionThat is a very thoughtful and appropriate question. Just to reassure the House, the Minister of State for Health and I have been working with Agenda for Change unions,…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI agree entirely with my hon. Friend. She brings considerable frontline experience to this House, having worked in the NHS and dedicated her life to it. I am pretty sure that as…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionWith permission, Madam Speaker Deputy, I shall make a statement on industrial action by resident doctors. I thank you, Mr Speaker, business managers and the official Opposition…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about the need to address bottlenecks and to do adequate workforce planning. He draws attention to his son, in the Gallery, who is a resident…10 Dec 2025