Health and Social Care

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Let me make a little bit of progress. I think Members on both sides would agree that I am usually...

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I give way first to the right hon. Member for New Forest West (Sir Desmond Swayne) and then I wil...

The hon. Gentleman will recall that the Government accepted the Dilnot proposals and even put in ...

We have long argued for a cap on care costs, but of course the Government, as the right hon. Gent...

Given that the hon. Gentleman’s party is undergoing a leadership election and that will clearly m...

It is a serious point, and I am grateful for the way in which the right hon. Gentleman has put it...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

For the last time, because a lot of Members want to speak.

This is directly relevant. The hon. Gentleman made a point about the House of Lords Committee, bu...

No, because we do not think it would work—it is not feasible. It is not just the Committee in the...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am afraid that on this occasion I will not, because many Members want to make maiden speeches. ...

You know you’re talking rubbish.

I will tell you who was talking rubbish, Mr Deputy Speaker: the Secretary of State when he said a...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is using a lot of statistics and figures, ...

As the hon. Lady knows from her work on the frontline in the NHS, the problem is that bank and ag...

This Queen’s Speech has health and social care at its heart. For the first time in the history of...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I give way immediately.

I am delighted that my right hon. Friend has mentioned new hospitals because we have a new hospit...

That is right, and of those 40 new hospitals over the next decade, one of the very first will be ...

The reality on the ground in the Halton part of my Weaver Vale constituency is somewhat different...

I am very happy to meet the hon. Gentleman. As well as the new hospitals, we also have upgrades g...

On the subject of the Secretary of State being true to his word—I welcome him back to his place—h...

It is good to see that the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesbury), having got the commitment...

I was a bit disappointed that the Secretary of State does not plan to build a new hospital in Wyc...

I was going to come on to that later in my speech, but my hon. Friend is absolutely right. I had ...

I will continue to take some interventions, if the House will allow me, and then make some progre...

The Secretary of State is being very generous in giving way a number of times. I would like to th...

I am, because Milton Keynes’s new MP has already been working with me to bring this concern to li...

I thank the Secretary of State for his meeting the other evening. I am sure my right hon. Friend ...

Yes, we are doing that work to make sure that, as we pump hundreds of millions of pounds into Her...

I am extremely grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, and I know he will move seamles...

I think that is an early warning that my right hon. Friend is going to leave immediately after hi...

Does the Secretary of State agree with me that, in Hertfordshire, we have been fortunate to have ...

Yes, I hope that we can make some progress on Royston, because Royston is an example of how the N...

Does the Secretary of State agree that this is not just about having more GPs, although we do nee...

My hon. Friend is dead right. Pharmacies should be doing more to keep the pressure off GPs, becau...

The Secretary of State is so pleased with himself and that attack line, he really is.

He’s got good reason to be!

The hon. Gentleman says that he has good reason to be. I was at the Treasury as a young man in my...

The cash boost that we are giving now is bigger. I think today is the anniversary of Prime Minist...

The Secretary of State will have heard my earlier exchanges with the shadow Secretary of State, w...

The proposals that we are working on include solutions for the provision of social care for older...

A few moments ago the Secretary of State spoke about scaremongering. Has he had a chance to look ...

I will have a look at that early-day motion. This is an incredibly important subject that we must...

I want to give the Secretary of State a chance to be clear, following on from the question from t...

The Minister for Care, my hon. Friend the Member for Gosport (Caroline Dinenage) wrote to the hon...

Blood cancer is this country’s fifth-most common cancer and the third-biggest cancer killer. May ...

Yes. My hon. Friend has been an assiduous campaigner to make sure that blood cancers are right at...

I want to bring the Secretary of State back to social care. We have a duty in this Parliament to ...

Before the Secretary of State answers that, may I just gently remind him that 40 people are tryin...

I will rattle through as fast as I can, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I also want to take as many interv...

During the election campaign the Prime Minister promised a member of the public that the Governme...

I can tell the hon. Lady that since the election I have been working on precisely that. I am very...

Increasing microbial resistance could have a devastating effect on the survival of people with se...

The medicines and medical devices Bill is designed to make it easier for hospitals to take part i...

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way and for visiting me on my campaign to become the ne...

Yes. I would be very happy to do that. I was struck by my hon. Friend’s enthusiasm for solving th...

May I first welcome the announcements the Secretary of State is making today? One of the benefits...

I look forward very much to speaking to and working with the new Health Minister in Northern Irel...

Many patients from north-east Wales attend hospitals over the border in Oswestry, Chester and Liv...

Absolutely. I am glad that we resolved the problems with the Countess of Chester Hospital serving...

Will my right hon. Friend give way just before he finishes his speech, because he is such a good ...

I do not know how my hon. Friend knew that I was about to finish.

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way, and I am sorry for arriving late in the Chamber, Mr ...

I want to see a pathway to zero tobacco too. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the work that he...

Order. A substantial number of Members wish to speak in this debate, and we have a dozen maiden s...

As the Secretary of State has said, health and social care is delivered by people, and I would li...

Let me start by saying that it is wonderful to see you in the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker, and that ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Three years ago my mother died of sepsis, and se...

I thank the hon. Lady for raising that. We have made huge progress in sepsis care, and the vast m...

I know that the right hon. Gentleman visited the Scottish patient safety programme to see in acti...

Actually, we do have WHO checklists throughout the NHS in England—I think they were introduced un...

This is my first contribution in the House in this new Parliament, and it is a pleasure to see yo...

It is good to see you restored your place, Mr Deputy Speaker, and a particular privilege to take ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I was pleased to see him back after his operatio...

I commend the hon. Gentleman for his point about mental health issues and some of the stresses an...

Order. I ask for the usual courtesies during maiden speeches, please. I call Sarah Owen.

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It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (James Brokenshire), a...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen) on her speech. It was a pleasure to l...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to give my maiden speech. I will begin by giving my ...

First, may I draw your attention, Mr Deputy Speaker, and that of all Members to my declaration in...

Order. I hesitate to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but he has now spoken for seven minutes and we...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sure that Members on the Treasury Bench will take away and ...

Order. The reason why we do not have a formal time limit is to try to help people who are making ...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I will take that amount of time.

I want to speak today...

I am delighted to call Laura Trott to make her maiden speech.

2.16 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Politics has become something of a dirty word in recent years, b...

May I start by congratulating the hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott) on an accomplished and ...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blaydon (Liz Twist). As somebody who is in ...

My right hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech, with great passion. Surely the definition of “...

My hon. Friend is exactly right, and I wanted to talk briefly about the various ways in which we ...

I am pleased to call Feryal Clark to make her maiden speech.

2.35 pm

I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this important debate, and deeply h...

It is a pleasure to follow the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Enfield North (Feryal Clark)....

I am delighted to call Florence Eshalomi to make her maiden speech.

2.48 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am pleased to stand here, and feel humbled, to make my maiden ...

That was a very thought-provoking, emotional and personal contribution from the hon. Member for V...

My hon. Friend is making a really strong speech. Talking of assets, in my constituency we have co...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point, and I was very pleased to hear the Secretary of State say...

Talking about assets, do we not also need to sweat the assets that are in the community? In Scotl...

The hon. Lady—I almost said my hon. Friend because we share some common issues, and she is a grea...

I think all of us here have had those moments when the injustice of what we see continues to haun...

When I sat in the Chamber earlier, I was not certain that I was in the right place. As you will k...

It will come as no surprise to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I intend to dwell on health and so...

Order. The hon. Lady must be heard. There are indeed a lot of Members here this afternoon, but we...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

The Westminster Government would do well to look at and em...

I am delighted to call Dehenna Davison to make her maiden speech.

3.20 pm

Let me start by paying tribute to my incredible new colleagues, who have made some inspiring spee...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Dehenna Davison) on her excellent and powerfu...

Order. It gives me great pleasure to call Dean Russell to make his maiden speech.

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