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HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformI thank my hon. Friend for that question. I am a proud member of Unison, and I am proud of its work to stand up for its workforce in the social care sector. She and Unison are…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHospicesThis Government want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life. Palliative care services are included in the…19 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesThe hon. Member points back to the waiting list, which currently has 6,237 people on it. I do not think it is too much to expect the NHS to have a relationship with each of those…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I shall make a statement on puberty blockers. At the outset, I wish to make clear the principles that drive the Government’s approach to…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesI can certainly give my hon. Friend that assurance. Better-quality evidence is critical if the NHS is to provide reliable and transparent information and advice to support…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesI thank the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for her approach to this matter. I can certainly respond to her questions. We want all those regional centres to be up and running by…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesThe order relates to the use of puberty blockers by that particular group of patients for that particular purpose, where the evidence base is not sound and for which the…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesIt is important, particularly with this group of children and young people, that clinicians ask a range of questions to identify the nature of a child’s needs, and respond…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesVery heavy consideration—of all the considerations, it is the one that has weighed most heavily. As I said in my statement, trans people too often find themselves at the wrong end…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesThe only thing worse than a Member not knowing the answer to their own question is the Minister not knowing the answer. Happily, in this case, I can say that surgical intervention…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesAny young person in Great Britain and Northern Ireland who had a valid prescription for these medicines in the six months prior to 3 June and 27 August respectively can seek…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesAs I say, any young person in Great Britain and Northern Ireland who had a valid prescription for these medicines in the six months prior to 3 June and 27 August respectively can…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her question. We are trying to proceed at pace with the clinical trial. I share the urgency that she brings to her question. I have had to…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesI thank the hon. Member for her question. On the cases of young people who have been on a gender identity pathway and later regret those interventions, whatever those…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesI thank the hon. Member for her question. In case she worries that she is going soft on the Government—or, worse still, in case I worry that I agree with her—we should just remind…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesAs the report into the failures of the Tavistock clinic shows, a whole range of individuals and organisations did not discharge their duty of care appropriately to an extremely…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesThe details of the trial are still being worked through. They will be and are subject to a robust ethical approvals process. Only once final ethical approval is granted is the…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesI thank the shadow Secretary of State for the constructive way in which he has responded to the statement, and for the tone with which he has approached the issue. It is worth…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesThe challenge that the hon. Member mentions relates not just to these drugs, but goes more generally, too, and it is something we are looking at closely. More broadly, I want to…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesThe trial will be uncapped, and I reassure the hon. Member and the House that all NIHR-commissioned research must go through robust scientific and ethical approval processes, both…11 Dec 2024