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HANSARDMedical Evacuation of Children: GazaToday I want to update the House on the evacuation of children in urgent need of medical care from Gaza to receive specialist treatment in NHS hospitals across the UK. This was…01 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. The number of drug-related deaths remains far too high, and we are committed to saving lives through access to…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI can certainly assure the shadow Minister that the chief nursing officer and I are working proactively to deal with nursing unemployment. We are also working with the leadership…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThanks to the decision that the Chancellor has taken, spending power in social care is rising—not just through Department funding but in the spending power of local authorities.…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, and that is why we are reforming the better care fund.22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are keen to address these sorts of issues through our workforce planning and to ensure that staff are working to the top of their licensing capability, always within the…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about the timeliness of decision making and the need to release funding when it is allocated. I shall make sure that my Department looks…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhen this Labour Government came to office, we promised 2 million more appointments, but we have actually delivered 4.5 million. We have cut NHS waiting lists month after month,…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can absolutely give my hon. Friend that reassurance. It was appalling that the previous Government not only cancelled lots of the deprivation-linked funding put in place by the…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI deplore Israel’s attacks on healthcare workers, as well as those on innocent civilians trying to access healthcare or vital aid. These actions go well beyond legitimate…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI absolutely give the right hon. Gentleman the assurance that I would be happy to meet him about his constituency issue, or indeed anything else. For all of the exchanges that we…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI absolutely agree with what the shadow Secretary of State has said. All three shifts—from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention—ought…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIndustrial ActionOnce again, the House is speaking with one voice, and I hope that the BMA understands the strength of feeling on both sides of the House about the unnecessary and irresponsible…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIndustrial ActionBefore this Government came to office, strikes were crippling the NHS. Costs ran to £1.7 billion in just one year, and patients saw 1.5 million appointments rescheduled. Strikes…22 Jul 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood Health ServicesThat sounds like another bid for a neighbourhood health centre in the right hon. Gentleman’s constituency, but I am sure that local commissioners will be delighted to hear the…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI can certainly give the hon. Gentleman reassurance that the work we are doing to streamline and rationalise the amount of money we are spending on NHS bureaucracy means that we…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI can certainly give the right hon. Gentleman the assurance that my Department will look into the provider that he raises. One reason I was proud that this Government increased…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI can certainly give my hon. Friend that commitment. The damage that was wreaked by the previous Government, not just across our health service but across every other part of…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesThe driving force behind this Government’s approach to health is the principle that whoever a person is and whatever their background, they should receive the same world-class…22 Jul 2025HANSARDHealth InequalitiesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out those stark differences in healthy life expectancy within a single inner London borough that contains some of the richest people…22 Jul 2025