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HANSARDPatient Waiting TimesMay I first, through my hon. Friend, say thank you to Dr Islam and to GPs right across the country who, against the backdrop of the extraordinary challenges they are working…15 Oct 2024HANSARDPatient Waiting TimesI am sure that the right hon. Lady does want more Conservative MPs in Essex. She has raised an entirely constructive point, which I strongly welcome. This Government are…15 Oct 2024HANSARDPatient Waiting TimesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that question. When in opposition, I was delighted to spend time with a whole group of GPs from across Sheffield who showed us what…15 Oct 2024HANSARDWhipps Cross Hospital: RedevelopmentThe hon. Gentleman asks what representations I am making to retain the funding. If only that were the case. The funding was not there. The Conservative party went into the general…15 Oct 2024HANSARDWhipps Cross Hospital: RedevelopmentMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is about not just the necessary hospital projects, but the growth that will come through construction, getting these projects up and…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsToday, I am publishing the full findings of Dr Penny Dash’s review of the Care Quality Commission. Her interim report made it clear that the CQC was not fit for purpose, with…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sorry for my hon. Friend’s constituents, and so many others who are dealing with the consequences of the Conservatives’ failure on dentistry. I would be delighted to meet him…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAfter the performances I had to put up with when the right hon. Lady was at the Government Dispatch Box, she has some brass neck complaining at the Opposition Dispatch Box that I…15 Oct 2024HANSARDPatient Waiting TimesThat is a great constructive challenge. I am absolutely committed to transparency and to keeping that dataset updated in the way that the hon. Lady requests. We are not going to…15 Oct 2024HANSARDPatient Waiting TimesPerhaps the shadow Minister would like to give us the figures for the entire 14 years that his party was in government. By the way, just to set the record straight, not only did I…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 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 am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question. Those practical considerations are very much part of the review. I say to the poor project managers across the country…15 Oct 2024HANSARDWhipps Cross Hospital: RedevelopmentMy hon. Friend, my constituency neighbour, is absolutely right. He has been doing an outstanding job of representing the people of Leyton and Wanstead since his arrival. What our…15 Oct 2024HANSARDFuller Inquiry: Response to Phase 1 ReportOn 28 November 2023, the report of phase 1 of the Fuller Independent Inquiry was published. Phase 1 of the inquiry looked into how David Fuller’s appalling crimes in the…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is right to raise that risk. I assure him and the House that I and the Deputy Prime Minister, herself a former care worker, are working in lockstep to align…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe shadow Secretary of State questions the budget for this winter, but it was set by her Government. Is that finally an admission of failure on her part? Something else that we…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI absolutely take the point the hon. Gentleman is making about the importance of place-based leadership. That is why one thing we will be looking to do, as part of the 10-year…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhatever stage the Bill got to, it was not completed, was it? We will bring back a tobacco and vapes Bill that is stronger than the Conservatives’ and I look forward to seeing if…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is precisely because of the situation the hon. Member describes—the poor services and, ironically, the underspends in the dentistry budget—that we will work not only to stand…15 Oct 2024