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HANSARDFuller Inquiry Phase 2 ReportToday, the independent inquiry into the issues raised by the actions of David Fuller has published its phase 2 and final report. It focuses on whether procedures and practices in…15 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionWith your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on planned industrial action by resident doctors. Today’s waiting list figures show that after 14 years of…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionQuite aside from the fact that I offered to meet the entire resident doctors committee back in January, although it has never taken me up on that offer—I would definitely be…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI strongly agree with what my hon. Friend says. I have been personally invested in our relationship with resident doctors and in the deal we struck—not just because it was one of…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI entirely agree with my hon. Friend. It will be patients who suffer the most. I also urge the BMA to consider the impact on its whole membership, because it is other staff who…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionWe will not be reopening this year’s pay award because we simply cannot afford to, and it would not be fair on others in the NHS workforce, regardless. I honestly do not regret…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. He is that rare beast: a Tory trade unionist. He raises the serious point of the consequences of strike action. I will, of…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionThe hon. Gentleman makes an entirely reasonable point. Pay is important—people have to be able to pay their bills and lead a good life—but so too are their working conditions. I…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI reassure the hon. Gentleman that I will obviously engage with my counterparts in the devolved Administrations. While health is a devolved matter, the decisions that we take in…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI am grateful to the Liberal Democrat spokesperson, and I think I can reassure her on a number of fronts. First, she is absolutely right to call out the disgrace that is corridor…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI entirely agree with my hon. Friend. Looking back at all the contributions this morning, I have been struck by the fact that, quite extraordinarily, the entire House, on both…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will move to closing. I did share the statement in advance, including with Opposition parties and the Speaker’s Office. I just say to resident…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI think the shadow Secretary of State’s memory is letting him down. Let me just remind him that before the general election, and after months of refusing to meet the BMA, the…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI completely agree with my hon. Friend. I urge BMA members to consider not just the significant progress that they have already made by working with a Labour Government, but the…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionIn all honesty, I am afraid I cannot give my hon. Friend that assurance. NHS finances are precariously balanced. We have been relative winners across the Budget and the spending…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionI strongly agree with my hon. Friend—he is absolutely right. I am happy to stand corrected, but there is genuinely no historical precedent in the history of British trade unionism…10 Jul 2025HANSARD Resident Doctors: Industrial ActionFirst, I think that the right hon. Member’s opening statement and the response across the House underline to the BMA and the resident doctors committee that they do not have…10 Jul 2025HANSARDReport on Patient SafetyI would like to update the House on Dr Penny Dash’s report on patient safety across the health and care landscape in England. In September, Dr Dash completed her review of the…07 Jul 2025HANSARD NHS 10-Year PlanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question; he is such a strong voice for the people of Gloucester. We are already delivering improvements in general practice, with 1,900…03 Jul 2025HANSARD NHS 10-Year PlanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her question. We want a society where everyone receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to end of life. Palliative and…03 Jul 2025