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HANSARDNHS WorkforceToday I am formally accepting the headline pay recommendations for NHS staff from the NHS Pay Review Body, the Review Body on Doctors and Dentists Remuneration, and the Senior…22 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I should point out for the record that mental health spending has increased in real terms this year, thanks to the decisions the Government have taken. As a proportion of spend on…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]Will the right hon. Member give way?19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]Hear, hear.19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I am just coming to my conclusion, I am afraid. In the past 10 months, we have met the mental health investment standard for 2025-26; invested an extra £680 million in mental…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I am grateful for that intervention. The hon. Gentleman raises what is, frankly, the depressingly familiar issue of the transition from youth and adolescent services to adult…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for sharing such personal lived experience of the issues we are debating this afternoon. I encourage her to take every opportunity to…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend’s question raises two key issues with the provision of mental health services. First, we must ensure that the bar is set in the right place for compulsory…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I am grateful to the hon. Member for that intervention and for raising the very serious issue—an issue of increasing prevalence—of the impact of parental mental ill health on…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am very glad that my Department is working closely with other Departments across a range of issues, in particular with my right hon. Friend…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I am happy to reaffirm that we have a really strong working relationship with Minister Mike Nesbitt and the Northern Ireland Executive, and we are keen to share insight wherever…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. As he has heard many times from this Dispatch Box, we want to see a shift in the centre of gravity in the NHS out of hospitals and into…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I am extremely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I place on record my thanks to Fiona for her campaigning work in circumstances that are completely…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I want to place on record my thanks to Baroness Merron for her leadership of the Bill’s progress in the House of Lords, and…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention. The Bill deals to an extent with cases that would fall under the category she describes, in particular through reforms…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I wish I could correct my hon. Friend and say that I have already read in detail the feedback from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, but he is right: I have not yet had a…19 May 2025HANSARDBetter Care for Veterans: National Training and Education PlanAs the nation marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we are announcing a new national training and education plan to transform healthcare for the armed forces community across…08 May 2025HANSARDHealth and Social Care ReformI take the Select Committee seriously, and I will look carefully at its report, but the shadow Minister has some brass neck. He mentions this Government having been in office for…06 May 2025HANSARDShifting Care into the CommunityI wholeheartedly join my hon. Friend in thanking Pam and everyone at Compassion in Action for the work that they do. At the heart of our approach to health is a recognition that…06 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsGPs are at the front door to our NHS. Today, I can announce that we are supporting more than 1,000 surgeries across the country to modernise their buildings, backed by more than…06 May 2025