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HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI strongly agree with my hon. Friend. We should not be complacent about that, because slipping down international league tables is not just a missed opportunity, but a missed…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will certainly give way to the former Minister.11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI can see the former Minister nodding emphatically. Even amidst this rowdy Budget debate, we have managed to achieve some consensus. Of course, the hon. Gentleman is very welcome…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe list is inexhaustible, is it not? It is just one thing after another, and then they have the audacity to say that Labour does not have any plans. If that is true, why are they…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI agree with the hon. Member. Politics is about choices, which is why we choose to end the tax breaks enjoyed by private schools, which are attended by the 7%, in order to fund…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI hope that the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) can tell us why.11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe right hon. Member made a right and fair point earlier about the cuts to national insurance and what is happening to pensioners’ incomes at the moment, but the Government’s…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI certainly give the former Minister this assurance: where the Government have had good ideas and where the life sciences strategy is in the right place, we do not intend to tear…11 Mar 2024HANSARDPrimary CareThe simple fact is that the Conservatives have been in power for 14 years, and general practice has never been in a worse state. Despite slogging their guts out, GPs are…05 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWith a general election in the air, I welcome what the Secretary of State has said about baby loss certificates and Martha’s rule—there is genuine cross-party agreement on this. I…05 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the hon. Member for Lewes (Maria Caulfield), has said that the policy will be “as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike.”…05 Mar 2024HANSARDNHS Dentistry: Recovery and ReformI wholeheartedly associate myself and my party with the Secretary of State’s remarks on sending our best wishes to His Majesty the King. Having gone through a cancer diagnosis…07 Feb 2024HANSARDNHS Dentistry: Recovery and ReformDon’t worry, Mr Speaker: I will come back to the Parliamentary Private Secretary shortly. Tooth decay is the No.1 reason for children aged six to 10 being admitted to hospital.…07 Feb 2024HANSARDNHS Dentistryrose —09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI totally agree with my hon. Friend. We have heard so many heartbreaking stories like the one she mentions from her constituency. A service that once was there for all of us when…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryThe sound you can hear, Mr Speaker, is the scraping of the barrel. How has the hon. Gentleman got the brass neck to stand up, after 14 years of his party in government, and say…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryIt is deeply disappointing. Let me assure the hon. Gentleman that as with the last Labour Government—13 years that created a rising tide that lifted all ships across the country,…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. In fact, he has the ability, as the Labour MP for Stockton North, to speak for his residents. If only other people across the country…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI strongly agree with my right hon. Friend. Things are so desperate. He mentioned the south-west in particular, and Devon and Cornwall have been particularly poorly served. Jayne…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We will have: 700,000 appointments, making a difference straightaway; supervised toothbrushing for three to five-year-olds to reduce future…09 Jan 2024