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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI might resist the invitation to give a specific date today, but the hon. Gentleman makes a valuable point about the ease of use of the NHS app, and I will write to him further on…19 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis Government are prepared for winter and we are already standing up the operational response to winter pressures. On funding, the right hon. Gentleman was in government just…19 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Member is welcome to make representations to the Department for the capital investment that he is calling for, but he should welcome the means of providing it, which was…19 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for the question and pay tribute to the work being done by Guy’s and St Thomas’. He is right to raise cyber-security. That is why the capital…19 Nov 2024HANSARDHealth and Care Staffing Costs: Employer NI ContributionsThe hon. Member talks about the employer national insurance contributions as if they were a burden on the NHS. It is thanks to the decisions taken by the Chancellor that we can…19 Nov 2024HANSARDHealth and Care Staffing Costs: Employer NI ContributionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her question. I am looking carefully at the pressures on hospices. In fact, only last Friday I visited Saint Francis hospice, which serves my…19 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I am grateful for that intervention for two reasons. First, it gives me an opportunity to say to GPs, hospices and other parts of the health and care system that will be affected…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)That is a commitment that we have made and a commitment that we will keep. I am happy to ensure that the hon. Member can meet the relevant Minister and project team as we get…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I am grateful for that intervention. It is of course for the devolved Administrations to decide how to use the Barnett consequentials that the generous uplift in funding provided…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I will make some more progress. Speaking of the Conservative party, I welcome the right hon. Member for Melton and Syston (Edward Argar) to his new position as the shadow Health…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I am not sure whether this is within the rules of the House—you will tell me if not, Madam Deputy Speaker—but I will do the hon. Member a deal: if he votes for the investment, he…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)On that point.05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)This Budget is the moment we turn the page on 14 years of Tory neglect of our NHS, when we begin to fix the foundations of our public finances and public services, when we wipe…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I am happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman to tell us why.05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)My hon. Friend is absolutely right about equity and fairness of access. The Government are determined to close the gap in healthy life expectancy and health inequalities that…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I am grateful for that intervention. The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that we walked into a position of enormous deficits in the NHS, and an enormous black hole in the…05 Nov 2024HANSARDTen-year Health PlanOur NHS is broken, but not beaten, and we have made it our mission to fix the NHS. But we cannot do it without the help of the people who use it, and so today I am launching…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Access to Primary HealthcareHave you been naughty or nice?16 Oct 2024HANSARDPatient Waiting TimesI welcome the hon. Lady to her role. I am afraid that this case is just one of countless stories of people whose lives might have been saved had the NHS been there for them when…15 Oct 2024HANSARDWhipps Cross Hospital: RedevelopmentI must declare an interest, because Whipps Cross hospital serves my constituents, as well as those of the right hon. Gentleman. On that basis, I am well aware that we desperately…15 Oct 2024