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HANSARD Health and Care BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. If I am honest, I suspect that the Minister and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care also agree that Lords amendment 29 is…30 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI associate myself and everyone on the Opposition Benches with the Secretary of State’s remarks and warmly welcome the support that the Government are providing to the people of…01 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsHang on a minute. So one minute the Secretary of State is asking for £5 billion from the Treasury, and the next minute he has found the money within the Department. Either he was…01 Mar 2022HANSARDElective TreatmentI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement, but it falls seriously short of the scale of the challenge facing the NHS and the misery that is affecting…08 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in England(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement on the publication of his Department’s plan for elective care recovery in…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandThank you for granting the urgent question, Mr Speaker. This is not a covid backlog; it is a Tory backlog. We went into the pandemic with NHS waiting lists already at a record 4.5…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCovid-19: Purchasing EffortShe did not say “by giving a contract to a pub landlord”.03 Feb 2022HANSARDCovid-19: Purchasing EffortI thank the Minister for advance sight of the statement. But what a disgrace that the Secretary of State did not come to the House today, to account for the inexcusable and…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCovid-19: Purchasing EffortWhy? Were there not enough masks?03 Feb 2022HANSARD Vaccination: Condition of DeploymentI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement, and also for his regular contact and briefings on this issue at both ministerial and official level. He is right…31 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsKeeping the Secretary of State on the subject of cancer, half of all patients with suspected breast cancer are not seen within the recommended two weeks. In two months, the number…18 Jan 2022HANSARDCancer OutcomesGeoff Cosgrave was admitted to hospital in mid-November with kidney cancer that had spread through his lymph nodes and lungs. Last week, his wife Glynis contacted me in…18 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am going to raise it a third time, because it is very clear that breast cancer care is worse than care for other forms of cancer. The Secretary of State needs to account for…18 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. I also pay tribute to Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, who has provided outstanding public service throughout the…13 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am not sure that is in order, but what I said from a sedentary position is that the Prime Minister is not fit to lick the boots of NHS staff in this country.13 Jan 2022HANSARDSurgical Fires in the NHSIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Rees. I apologise on behalf of the shadow Minister for patient safety, my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris),…16 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthThe hon. Gentleman has called repeatedly from a sedentary position that I do not know the science, but I have said nothing of any sort to contradict the points he has just made.…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. This comes back to the point I made about the Government engaging with the staff trade unions and the royal colleges. Whatever their…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI agree with the hon. Lady. I appreciate that she is a newer Member of the House but I dare say she watched our proceedings before being elected, and we cannot have spent so much…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthMy hon. Friend makes such an important point. Going back to the staff surveys, particularly given that the overwhelming majority of staff are vaccinated, it is not that they do…14 Dec 2021