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HANSARDNHS StrikesI thank the hon. Lady for her question, but nothing could be further from the truth. We accepted the independent pay review body’s recommendation of an average of 4.75% in full.…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesI remember another Scottish National party Member making a similar comment in a previous urgent question, crowing about how Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, was…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesOpposition Members keep saying, “Get round the table and negotiate.” I encourage the next one who says that to tell me exactly where each block of 1%, each £700 million, will come…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesPay is a devolved matter and I understand that the full details of the Welsh offer are yet to be finalised. They will include a number of non-pay commitments, and I understand…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesFirst, let me correct what the hon. Lady said about PPE. I was not a Health Minister at the time, but let us not forget that 97% of all PPE was usable. Despite being a Minister in…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesI thank my hon. Friend for his question. We accepted in full the independent pay review body’s recommendation this year of 4.75%, which was over and above last year’s figure of 3%…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesI thank the Chair of the Select Committee for his question. He is right that we are committed to the independent PRB process, which is the right way to set public sector pay and…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesI am grateful to the hon. Member for his question, which I am taking on behalf of the Department as the Secretary of State is attending a COBRA meeting focused on minimising the…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesFirst, let me agree entirely with what the hon. Gentleman said about NHS staff and how we all owe them a debt of gratitude for the service they have given, not just to us but to…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesWe do not, as yet, have the details of today’s and tomorrow’s industrial action, but we will certainly be able to publish that information in due course. I can tell the right hon.…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesOnce? The shadow Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), has spent it twice over already. And that is if indeed it would…06 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS StrikesI am not going to engage in the playing of party politics on this. The hon. Gentleman already knows that the Secretary of State is due to attend a Cobra meeting, which he and I…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTransfer of NHS Digital into NHS EnglandMy noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Lord Markham) has made the following written statement: Today, NHS Digital legally becomes part of NHS…01 Feb 2023HANSARD Draft Mental Health Bill 2022I sincerely thank my hon. Friend and the Committee for all the work that has been put into this constructive and important report, and I also thank all those who gave evidence to…26 Jan 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Backlog: Elective CareSince the publication of the elective recovery delivery plan, the NHS has virtually eliminated two-year waits for treatments and is making progress on tackling the next ambition…24 Jan 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Backlog: Elective CareMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise this issue, and to highlight the difference being made by the 89 community diagnostic centres that have already been rolled out and the…24 Jan 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Backlog: Elective CareWe are increasing capacity by introducing an additional 7,000 beds and the £500-million discharge fund. In addition to that, an extra £250 million was announced in January. Over…24 Jan 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Backlog: Elective CareAs I said, we are creating 7,000 additional general and acute beds. We are investing £500 million in adult social care specifically for discharge, and that goes up to £600 million…24 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. National NHS guidance is absolutely clear: providers are expected to facilitate visiting for patients in hospital wherever possible and to…24 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss that further.24 Jan 2023