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Health Bill [Lords]

Debate on bills on Monday, 12 October 2009, in the House of Commons.
Health Bill (HL). Report stage debate. New clause 12, discussed with new clause 11, debated and agreed to on division (342 votes to 160). New clause 13, discussed with new clause 10, debated and agreed to on question. New clause 14, debated and agreed to on question. New clause 1, discussed with new clauses 4, 6 and 7, debated and negatived on division (193 votes to 279). Third reading debate. Agreed to on question and Bill passed with amendments. [Relevant Documents: The Eleventh Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Legislative Scrutiny: Health Bill; Marine and Coastal Access Bill, HC 396, and the Fourteenth Report from the Committee, Legislative Scrutiny: Welfare Reform Bill;Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill; Health Bill, HC 414.]

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

497 c44-132 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department of Health

Legislative stage

Third reading and Report stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Health Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
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Legislative scrutiny: Health Bill; Marine and Coastal Access Bill. Human Rights Joint Select Committee eleventh report with formal minutes and evidence.
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Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons
Legislative scrutiny: Welfare Reform Bill; Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill; Health Bill. Human Rights Joint Select Committee fourteenth report with formal minutes and evidence.
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Stephen O'Brien | 497 c51 (Link to this contribution) That is not the point.
Mike O'Brien | 497 c51 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, it was much easier for the Minister to take action directly with regard to Maidstone, which...

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Stephen O'Brien | 497 c53-5 (Link to this contribution) In addition to addressing Government new clause 12 and speaking to their amendments, I shall address...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c51-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can stand up and give his response rather than sitting chuntering from the Front ...
Lord Lansley | 497 c51 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will recall that the intervention by Monitor took place on the same day as the publicat...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c56 (Link to this contribution) I want to be clear about the hon. Gentleman’s answer to the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash). Does h...
Frank Dobson | 497 c55 (Link to this contribution) I see some merit in some of the points that the hon. Gentleman makes, but I do not understand why he...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c55 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that, because my answer to his point enables me to say...
William Cash | 497 c56 (Link to this contribution) There has been a good deal of discussion about the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, although ...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c56 (Link to this contribution) What my hon. Friend is seeking, from those on both sides of the House, as well as from all those who...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c49 (Link to this contribution) Monitor will have to publish guidance on how it will carry out the process, as well as the criteria ...
David Drew | 497 c49 (Link to this contribution) I speak as a governor of an acute hospital trust. At what stage does the Minister believe that Monit...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) I take my hon. Friend’s point, but in a sense the Care Quality Commission will be considering the qu...
Lindsay Hoyle | 497 c48 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend mentioned the use of Monitor, but would it not be common sense for ...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c51 (Link to this contribution) I will give way briefly, but I am reaching a conclusion. If the hon. Gentleman insists that he wants...
Tony Wright | 497 c50 (Link to this contribution) I should like to reinforce the point that has just been made about the need for decisive action if w...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) The important point is that the system will keep Monitor as the decision maker in the process. Monit...
Lord Cormack | 497 c50 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will know from our consultations on the sad episode in Stafford that I have sympathy wi...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c50 (Link to this contribution) We have discussed the process with Monitor and made it clear that we want it to be relatively quick....
Lord Soames of Fletching | 497 c46 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Soames of Fletching | 497 c47 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful. On that particular point, following the dreadful events in Staffordshire, did th...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c46 (Link to this contribution) I shall, but I am just introducing the issue.
Mike O'Brien | 497 c47 (Link to this contribution) Dr. David Colin-Thomé undertook a report on the issue, so a full report on the lessons to be learned...
Howard Stoate | 497 c47 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend ensure that foundation trust board meetings are held in public...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c47 (Link to this contribution) There will clearly be variation in the work that trusts—whether foundation or, indeed, non-foundatio...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c48 (Link to this contribution) We have set up the Care Quality Commission, whose job it is to ensure that standards in the trusts a...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c48 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way, but there is a lot to get through today and I want to make progress after my hon. ...
Speaker | 497 c46 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 11—Notification of Care Qualit...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c46 (Link to this contribution) I rise to move Government new clause 13. This amendment would insert the new clause into the Bill to...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c46 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Mike O'Brien | 497 c79 (Link to this contribution) I dare not concede that. Our draftsmen do an excellent job, and we certainly do not want to upset th...
Mike Penning | 497 c79 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right—we might have a little fun, but only for a few moments because I do not want t...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c79 (Link to this contribution) I have little to add. I had spotted the flaw that neither Ministers nor the Opposition teams found. ...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c80 (Link to this contribution) The policy remains exactly as it was. The best advice for the hon. Lady’s mother is that the NHS has...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c78 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 497 c78 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments 38 and 39.
Frank Dobson | 497 c79 (Link to this contribution) Would my right hon. and learned Friend concede that the person doing the drafting might even have be...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point, and I acknowledge that we will need to consider tariffs and how services are p...
Speaker | 497 c80 (Link to this contribution) Order. I suspect that the Minister was not responding to an intervention, but summing up the debate....
Mike O'Brien | 497 c76 (Link to this contribution) Let me first deal with a couple of the points raised by the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Mr. O'Brien)....
Sandra Gidley | 497 c76 (Link to this contribution) Many people are concerned that we could go back to the old days when private patients seemed effecti...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c74-5 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the right hon. Gentleman is drawing on questionable figures—and, possibly, prejudice....
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c73 (Link to this contribution) That is the whole point of involving private income. As the Minister would be the first to admit, to...
Frank Dobson | 497 c74 (Link to this contribution) I am one of the reactionary elements in the Labour party who opposed the measure—and I am proud of i...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) New clause 13 is a welcome concession resulting from pressure put on the Government, not least by th...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c73 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman appears to endorse Lord Warner’s position that the money derived from private pat...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c77 (Link to this contribution) My point is a combination of what the hon. Member for Romsey (Sandra Gidley) asked and what the Mini...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c76-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a very good point. We do not want private patients to be significantly subsidise...
Ian McCartney | 497 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) On the last point that the hon. Gentleman made, I should mention that I was the Minister responsible...
William Cash | 497 c63 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful for that intervention and I hear what the right hon. Gentleman says with gre...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by responding to the three hon. Gentlemen who represent Staffordshire seats—in particula...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c64 (Link to this contribution) Why did not somebody ask Monitor to deal with it?
Mike O'Brien | 497 c69 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 497 c69 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 10—Private health care—
Mike Penning | 497 c69 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said that before.
Mike O'Brien | 497 c69 (Link to this contribution) I now get to move new clause 13—
Mike O'Brien | 497 c69-72 (Link to this contribution) Somewhere or other, hon. Members may well have heard me do so, as the hon. Gentleman says from a sed...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) We have been clear about the position, which is that if there is a serious failure, there must be th...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c57 (Link to this contribution) I have listened with great care to what the hon. Gentleman has said, but I am still not sure what th...
William Cash | 497 c59 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady was on the Committee that looked at the Mid Staffordshire issues in one, albeit too sh...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c59 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, which relates to my next point. The process of awa...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) I am very concerned that the Minister is framing his question on the premise that we can allow thing...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c58 (Link to this contribution) I will be fairly brief. To sum up, I have no problem with the general aim of the new clause, but I h...
William Cash | 497 c62 (Link to this contribution) I hear with great interest and respect what my hon. Friend says, but I must mention that in this par...
Lord Cormack | 497 c59-61 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) is having to chair a meeting of a Committee of the Ho...
Speaker | 497 c80-2 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: new clause 4—Purchase of tobacco on behalf...
David Leslie Taylor | 497 c83 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman refers to outlawing proxy purchases of tobacco. However, we have a parallel regim...
Mike Penning | 497 c83 (Link to this contribution) There are two things to say about that. First, unenforceable legislation is bad law and, secondly, t...
John Pugh | 497 c82 (Link to this contribution) It is all the sadder because the evidence is ambiguous. There is no decisive evidence to compel Mini...
Mike Penning | 497 c82 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to take this element of the Bill through its final stages. I was a proud member of...
Christopher Fraser | 497 c83 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend is also particularly sad because the group of amendments affects busin...
Mike Penning | 497 c82 (Link to this contribution) That is a sensible point. We did not force any votes in Committee because we wanted the House to hav...
Mike Penning | 497 c84 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with my hon. Friend, as does the evidence from across the spectrum. At the moment...
Philip Davies | 497 c84 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is typically making a powerful case. I was a retailer for 12 years before entering Pa...
Mike Penning | 497 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) I do apologise—it is being enforced in Cambridge, where partnerships have worked together and driven...
Andy Slaughter | 497 c85 (Link to this contribution) Let us have an argument about process because there is no substance. I am listening to the hon. Gent...
Mike Penning | 497 c85 (Link to this contribution) This is exactly what the retailers were asking me earlier today and what we were asking last week: "...
Lembit Opik | 497 c85 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman find it astounding that the Minister thinks that publishing the regulations ...
Mike Penning | 497 c85 (Link to this contribution) There is a saying that goes, "When you get in a hole, stop digging." The industry, which sells a leg...
Baroness Merron | 497 c85 (Link to this contribution) I hope that hon. Members are aware that we have involved many retail organisations in the developmen...
Mike Penning | 497 c85 (Link to this contribution) Does that not tell us everything about the Government? It is like lastminute.com, but this is such a...
Baroness Merron | 497 c84 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be aware that the regulations were published earlier today, before the debate...
Bob Spink | 497 c90 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Frank Dobson | 497 c88-9;497 c88-90 (Link to this contribution) New clause 6 would require the public disclosure by tobacco companies of details of their marketing ...
Mike Penning | 497 c88 (Link to this contribution) No, I am about to conclude my remarks. If the Government were serious, they would have waited for t...
Howard Stoate | 497 c88 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mike Penning | 497 c88 (Link to this contribution) We will always accept the will of the House. The draft regulations are not due to come into force un...
Christopher Chope | 497 c88 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to the free vote that we expect later this evening—certainly on this side of t...
Christopher Chope | 497 c87-8 (Link to this contribution) We have been talking about the regulations, which are not yet available, but that may be an academic...
Speaker | 497 c87 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I cannot acquiesce to the hon. Gentleman’s final request. It is important that the ...
Mike Penning | 497 c87 (Link to this contribution) I was slightly surprised when the Minister said earlier that the regulations were available in the L...
Mike Penning | 497 c86 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will bear with me, I need to make some progress, and I want my Back-Bench coll...
Mike Penning | 497 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) Three aspects of illicit tobacco worry me. The first is the duty that is not paid and the loss of in...
Lord Cormack | 497 c86 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful that my hon. Friend touched on that point. As Chairman of the Select Committ...
Mike Penning | 497 c86 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s point is absolutely crucial. Those store owners do not know exactly how much the me...
Christopher Fraser | 497 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point made by the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik), the Association of C...
Mike Penning | 497 c86 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely with my hon. Friend.
Philip Dunne | 497 c86 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very powerful case, and I share his abhorrence at the prevalence of smoking. ...
Christopher Chope | 497 c87 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Earlier, the Minister assured the House that the draft regu...
Mike Penning | 497 c85 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned about having good law—a law that we can enforce and one that does not have a dispropo...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c92 (Link to this contribution) The Liberal Democrats have tabled new clauses 4 and 7, but I want to start by talking about new clau...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c92-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that clarification, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was just elaborating on the Minister’s comme...
Speaker | 497 c92 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am reluctant to intervene on the hon. Lady, who is talking about e-mails, and they are of c...
Andy Slaughter | 497 c95 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is talking persuasively about the effect of packaging and how it influences people. An...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c95 (Link to this contribution) The difference is that tobacco is an adult product, so there is no reason not to display it. I shall...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) I am going to carry on as I have almost concluded my remarks. The argument against plain packs is t...
Christopher Fraser | 497 c96 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady accept that a figure of between £1,850 and £5,000 is far too much for a small ret...
Frank Dobson | 497 c90 (Link to this contribution) Roughly speaking, around half the people who smoke die, one way or another, as a result of being smo...
Bob Spink | 497 c90 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is making some excellent points. He mentioned that half the people who take...
Frank Dobson | 497 c90 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. Other people want to speak. Hardly anybody takes up smoking as an adult. S...
Frank Dobson | 497 c91 (Link to this contribution) They were wrong then and they are wrong now.
Howard Stoate | 497 c90-1;497 c91 (Link to this contribution) Just to help my right hon. Friend with the figures, 120,000 people die each year from smoking-relate...
Frank Dobson | 497 c91 (Link to this contribution) I think that I was the first ever person in the House to point out that the tobacco industry needs t...
Philip Davies | 497 c91 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Kevin Barron | 497 c91 (Link to this contribution) The Smee report did say what the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning) said, but it also sa...
Frank Dobson | 497 c91 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend. My new clause 6 would force the tobacco industry to disclose all the ...
Judy Mallaber | 497 c100 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that one person’s choice to smoke affects other people’s choice n...
Philip Davies | 497 c100 (Link to this contribution) Well, I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman is happy with his position at the time on that issue. ...
Lembit Opik | 497 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) Adding to that observant point, does the hon. Gentleman agree that, as the large retailers can affor...
Philip Davies | 497 c100 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not. We are getting slightly off the mark here, but the hon. Lady has the freedom to take h...
Frank Dobson | 497 c100 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that we banned advertising and promotion?
Philip Davies | 497 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) I intend to speak only briefly as I know that other Members want to contribute and time is limited. ...
Philip Davies | 497 c101 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and I hope Labour Members will take that into account.
Christopher Fraser | 497 c101 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point, such small shops are very often in villages in constituencies such as mine, w...
Philip Davies | 497 c101 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The main point is that this should not be billed as the tobacco...
Tom Levitt | 497 c101 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman began his remarks by saying that he accepted that smoking should be an adult past...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c97 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I hope the House will excuse me if I say a little about vending machines. I have tried to be b...
John Pugh | 497 c97 (Link to this contribution) None of us has any problem with indications that tobacco is available as a lawful product. What we a...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c96 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I felt that the amendment provided a very neat compromise. It would be interesting if we co...
Lembit Opik | 497 c96 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s provisional support for the amendment. Does she agree that it res...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c96 (Link to this contribution) In some cases the costs are borne by the tobacco manufacturers. I think there is some evidence that ...
Ian McCartney | 497 c98-9 (Link to this contribution) I realise that I should not use the word "you". I could call the hon. Gentleman "comrade"; I could c...
Ian McCartney | 497 c98 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is such an apologist for the tobacco industry, perhaps he would like to apolog...
Speaker | 497 c98 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman remembers the correct way in which to address other M...
Philip Davies | 497 c98 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware that there is no problem that the right hon. Gentleman does not think can be solved ...
Baroness Merron | 497 c104-5 (Link to this contribution) I will take some interventions, but perhaps it would be helpful if I set out a few more points that ...
Christopher Fraser | 497 c105 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has stated that the Government hope that they will deter young people from taking up s...
Baroness Merron | 497 c105 (Link to this contribution) I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman makes that point. Perhaps he will be interested in the tobacc...
Andy Slaughter | 497 c105 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for the presentation that she arranged at lunchtime where ample evidence was ...
Baroness Merron | 497 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend’s constituent for his support. This measure provides some opportunities that ...
David Leslie Taylor | 497 c106 (Link to this contribution) Was the Minister as shocked as I was by the deliberate exaggeration of the costs that we heard from ...
Baroness Merron | 497 c106 (Link to this contribution) I would always rather deal in facts. My hon. Friend is quite right about the reality of costs. The e...
Lembit Opik | 497 c106 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that she has consulted the National Federation of Retail Newsagents. She will know...
Baroness Merron | 497 c106 (Link to this contribution) I have of course considered amendment 16, tabled by the hon. Gentleman, and I hope that he will not ...
Angela Watkinson | 497 c102 (Link to this contribution) The purpose of these bans might be to deter under-age smoking, but does my hon. Friend agree that th...
Philip Davies | 497 c102 (Link to this contribution) I have great respect for my hon. Friend’s opinions and on that, as on so many other things, I agree ...
Philip Davies | 497 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept that because, again, the premise is wrong. That basically presumes that everybod...
Ian McCartney | 497 c103 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has said much about the nanny state and he has said that there is no problem with...
Philip Davies | 497 c103 (Link to this contribution) I knew it was a mistake to give way to the right hon. Gentleman and I shall treat that intervention ...
Frank Dobson | 497 c102 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes my point: the people running the tobacco companies, who are fabulously weal...
Philip Davies | 497 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) It is not sensible, in the current climate, for any Member of Parliament to accuse anyone else of be...
Baroness Merron | 497 c104 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that we should do all we can. A consultation that we undertook last year...
Joan Walley | 497 c104 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of the concerns of the NHS in Stoke-on-Trent, particularly in respect of the...
Baroness Merron | 497 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) I have listened closely to the debate and know that all hon. Members want to prevent young people fr...
Mike Penning | 497 c108 (Link to this contribution) The principle is exactly the same, and an identical piece of legislation has been proposed this even...
Baroness Merron | 497 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) We are not running away—we are saying that we are going to do better. I want to assure hon. Members ...
Speaker | 497 c114 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will Members who are staying for this debate please keep the level of their conversations dow...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c114-5 (Link to this contribution) We are the party that introduced the NHS constitution. We certainly want to ensure that it sets out ...
Richard Taylor | 497 c115 (Link to this contribution) I wish just to point out a deficiency in the NHS constitution. A whole set of duties are expressed i...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c113 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 19, page 2, line 3, at end insert
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c114 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, because of the Government’s raft of new amendments, we are rather pressed for time, so I shal...
Baroness Merron | 497 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady allow me to make the case? That evidence would be needed to secure a conviction....
Sandra Gidley | 497 c108 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister saying that the Government’s legislation on alcohol proxy sales is ineffective? Perh...
Baroness Merron | 497 c107 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s support on that point. We are particularly aware of the way in w...
Baroness Merron | 497 c107 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend and thank her for making that point.
Madeleine Moon | 497 c107 (Link to this contribution) I attended a meeting with the Porthcawl cancer research campaign. The group gave me a petition colle...
Baroness Merron | 497 c106 (Link to this contribution) I will give way if my hon. Friends give me a moment. It has been suggested that removing the displa...
Julie Morgan | 497 c107 (Link to this contribution) I was able to visit Ireland with Action on Smoking and Health just before the new law was introduced...
Baroness Merron | 497 c108 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, the Home Office has acknowledged that the legislation has not been as easy to enforc...
Kevin Barron | 497 c127-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall not detain the House for too long; I rise just to support the Third Reading of the Bill. Opp...
Philip Davies | 497 c128 (Link to this contribution) The Chairman of the Select Committee said that that change increased that tobacco company’s market s...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c115-6 (Link to this contribution) We certainly need to ensure that we do not have another Mid Staffordshire hospital situation and tha...
Lembit Opik | 497 c124 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have waited until now to draw your attention to the fac...
Speaker | 497 c124 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s concern, but he will not be surprised when I say that there is not...
Lord Lansley | 497 c124 (Link to this contribution) Happily, the Secretary of State is now present for the debate on Third Reading—[Interruption.]
Speaker | 497 c125 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will Members who do not wish to stay for the debate please leave the Chamber as quickly and q...
Lord Lansley | 497 c125-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Notwithstanding the recent debates on tobacco, at the heart of the...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c127 (Link to this contribution) This is a bit of a mish-mash Bill, containing a lot of fairly worthy things. Most of today’s discuss...
Kevin Barron | 497 c128-9 (Link to this contribution) For years, the tobacco industry has been saying that advertising is all about market share and that ...
David Leslie Taylor | 497 c129-30 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had been here throughout the debate he would have heard that answered adequate...
Ian McCartney | 497 c130 (Link to this contribution) I will take only a minute of the House’s time, because the Secretary of State needs to respond to th...
David Leslie Taylor | 497 c129 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow my predecessor as chair of the all-party group on smoking and health. In 19...
Richard Younger-Ross | 497 c129 (Link to this contribution) I am puzzled about advertising at the point of sale. People may wander into a shop, look around and ...
Philip Davies | 497 c130 (Link to this contribution) Briefly, as we seem to have had a round of congratulations on the Bill, I want to say that this is a...
Andy Burnham | 497 c130-2 (Link to this contribution) It says here, "I beg to move, that the Bill be now read the Third time." However, I gather that some...
Mike Penning | 497 c109 (Link to this contribution) We could have done with a lot longer this evening to debate these amendments and new clauses, but th...
Lindsay Hoyle | 497 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give an assurance to the rest of the foundation trusts that what happened in Staff...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c78-9 (Link to this contribution) The new clause is designed to correct a drafting mistake that was made in the Health Act 2006, which...
Lord Lansley | 497 c62 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend’s view that restoring public confidence—on the face of it, that is the Govern...
William Cash | 497 c61-2 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with what my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) ...
Mike Penning | 497 c88 (Link to this contribution) We have said that nobody with any sense thinks that squeezing this important debate into a tiny sect...
Sandra Gidley | 497 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) Most of my comments have already been outlined by the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Mr. O'Brien), so I ...
Mike O'Brien | 497 c64-5 (Link to this contribution) I hear rumbles from a sedentary position as the hon. Gentleman asks why no one asked Monitor to do i...
Mike Penning | 497 c80 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Mike Penning | 497 c91 (Link to this contribution) Interestingly enough, when the right hon. Gentleman became the Secretary of State for Health in 1997...
Ian McCartney | 497 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) I owe the House an explanation. Because of the complexity of some of the new clauses and amendments ...
Mike Penning | 497 c83 (Link to this contribution) The important point is that the businesses to which my hon. Friend refers are operating legally. We ...
Frank Dobson | 497 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not. On 7 July 2005, five suicide bombers committed a monstrous outrage in this city. M...
Stephen O'Brien | 497 c114 (Link to this contribution) If the amendment reflects only current rights, it cannot create a lawyer’s charter, as the Minister ...
Speaker | 497 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment 15, page 3, line 6, clause 3, le...

Subjects

Children
Advertising
Constitutions
Direct payments
Hospitals
Health services
Fees and charges
Eyesight
Income
NHS
Packaging
Mental health
NHS foundation trusts
Private patients
Standards
Voucher schemes
Retail trade
Testing
Tobacco
Smoking
Monitor
Care Quality Commission
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Legislation

Health Bill (HL) 2008-09

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