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HANSARDNHS WorkforceIs the hon. Member planning to cross the Floor? I look forward to hearing from him.06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI do not pretend that our plan is not vote Labour, but of course those are the means by which we get to better ends. What we propose today is the biggest expansion of the NHS…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI thank my hon. Friend for raising that heartbreaking case. It is every family’s worst nightmare. All of us now know someone who is waiting for treatment. Many of us know someone…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceFor clarity, is it the Secretary of State’s position that we are turning away thousands of talented people who want to study medicine and other health professional courses because…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI am surprised and grateful that the Secretary of State has given way. His position seems to be, “You’ve never had it so good.” People cannot get an appointment to see their GP,…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceThe hon. Gentleman is right: inflation is a big problem, and it is a problem made in Downing Street. We are all paying a very heavy price for more than a decade of Conservative…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceThat is an excellent question that the Secretary of State is really well placed to answer. It is not as if people in Downing Street do not know what non-dom status is or how it is…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI totally agree. We have had lots of perfectly good speeches from Conservative Prime Ministers over the past 12 years, and we have had more than our fair share of unbelievably bad…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI wholeheartedly agree. To deal with that problem—and, indeed, to satisfy the demands of the Conservative party, which looks to Labour for answers—we are putting forward a plan…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI strongly agree. In fact, I spoke to the general secretary of Unison last week. She said that as the unions look at safe staffing levels in critical services, in their…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI totally agree, and I heard of a really awful case in Warrington the other day. A Warrington resident who contacted me said that they waited 12 hours in agonising pain in…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceMy hon. Friend has led me neatly towards setting out Labour’s plans, which rely on people who come to this country and make Britain their home actually paying their taxes here.…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI wholeheartedly agree. I seemed to hear from the Health Secretary this afternoon a one-size-fits-all approach from the Government, as though every hospital’s needs will be the…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI give way to my Liberal Democrat friend.06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceThe hon. Gentleman is not looking forward to me solving the problem half as much as I am looking forward to solving the problem. As far as I am concerned, the general election…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceThe hon. Gentleman has been to medical school; does he think that it was a good idea to cut the number of places this summer?06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. As we see so often with this Government, they make promises but break them. They try to fool the public into thinking they are…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS Workforceindicated dissent .06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. One reason why this country has much poorer cancer outcomes than many comparable economies is precisely because of late diagnosis. I know from…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNHS WorkforceI strongly agree with the hon. Gentleman. I will come shortly to talk about industrial action, but this should be at the heart of the Secretary of State’s thinking. The demands…06 Dec 2022