NHS Funding Bill

The Foreign Office is working with international partners both in America and other EU countries,...

The Secretary of State will know that we are all looking forward to lots of celebrations of the C...

We are using all possible means to get in contact with the 1,460 people whom we need to contact, ...

My constituency borders Heathrow, and many of my constituents will be working at Heathrow with th...

The hon. Member is quite right to raise this. There is a Public Health England unit or hub at Hea...

Does not this excellent Bill ensure that people will never again be misled into thinking that we ...

Yes, I am delighted to be able to assure my right hon. Friend that, on both counts, he is absolut...

On the same theme as that raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon)—pr...

Yes and yes; my hon. Friend anticipates my whole section on Mr PFI sitting over on the Opposition...

To clarify the point, are the Government committed to buying out the PFIs that are currently a bu...

We absolutely will be looking at doing that where we can. Unfortunately, that is difficult to do,...

My right hon. Friend might know that I am a vice-president of Combat Stress, the charity for the ...

I am very glad that my hon. Friend has raised this matter, because I was concerned to read the re...

First, I thank my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for visiting Watford during the electi...

Yes, that is exactly right. I enjoyed visiting Watford at the invitation of my hon. Friend. It is...

Let me make a little progress, because so many people want to speak.

The purpose of the Bil...

The Minister heard earlier from another Member about mental health issues, which do not just affe...

The hon. Gentleman is right to raise what is an incredibly important issue. We are rolling out su...

Having worked in the health economy for a couple of decades, I know that commissioners and provid...

Yes, of course. The Minister for Health, my hon. Friend Member for Charnwood (Edward Argar), is r...

I will give way to the hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) and then the hon. Member for...

The Secretary of State knows that NHS funding increases in recent years have averaged about 1.4%....

No, it is the largest and longest funding settlement in history, and we can fund a strong NHS onl...

One of the fantastic things that we have seen in the NHS in the past few years has been the openi...

The funding for training more nurses comes on top of what is in the Bill—the Bill is for the day-...

My right hon. Friend and neighbour talks about how we pay for the NHS, and he said that we cannot...

Yes. That just shows how sensible the British people were to elect a majority Conservative Govern...

I want to make a point about new technologies and what is not in the Bill—namely, capital and tra...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that we need earlier diagnosis of cancer—I entirely agree....

I welcome the points that the Secretary of State has just made, particularly on Northern Ireland....

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that the three years without an Administration in Northern...

The Secretary of State has set out many commitments relating to what he wants to deliver with the...

We are already exceeding those amounts with the additional funding that I mentioned to do with tr...

We have said that there will be parity of esteem between mental and physical health. What is the ...

That is clearly set out in the operational guidance to the NHS—that it must be. That will be audi...

One way to ensure that patients can be best served is to make the software more compatible, and I...

Yes. My hon. Friend makes a really important point. The issue is not just the quantity of money b...

I want to finish this section, Madam Deputy Speaker. The crucial thing in this Bill is the certai...

If the Secretary of State is so proud that these figures represent a floor and not a maximum, why...

I would be careful about making that argument if I were the hon. Gentleman. Over the last decade,...

The Secretary of State has already mentioned the 50 million additional GP appointments, but are n...

Yes, absolutely. If we use technology to set up a better booking system for GPs, it turns out tha...

Oh, come on!

Somebody on the Opposition Front Bench just shouted, “Oh, come on!” when I talked about saving hu...

My right hon. Friend brought up the issue of Scottish funding. Does he share my regret and frustr...

Exactly. That is precisely true, and what is so frustrating is this—perhaps my hon. Friend knows ...

As well as the question of what the money will be spent on—and I welcome the extra investment—the...

Order. There is a separate Scottish debate going on, and, however interesting it might be, it is ...

I could not hear myself, Madam Deputy Speaker.

It is also a question of who and where. We k...

I am glad that you gave us a chance to listen to the hon. Lady, Madam Deputy Speaker, because tha...

I need to make some progress.

Let me turn to what is happening on top of the funding in the...

rose—

If the hon. Lady wants to welcome that increase of over 7,000, she is more than welcome to do so....

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way, and of course I welcome more nurses in our NHS. Wh...

I can guarantee that the mental health funding will be ring-fenced; and I want us, from the House...

My question is not about infrastructure. It is about the Secretary of State’s last paragraph, on ...

As in so many other areas, we are hiring. My response to hearing about problems of shortages is, ...

My right hon. Friend will know that, as well as financial clout from No. 11, it is important to h...

Yes. My hon. Friend should know that, on this as on so many things, he and the Prime Minister are...

I want to make as much progress as I can, Madam Deputy Speaker, as I know that many people want t...

King’s College Hospital in my constituency has the largest level of debt of any hospital trust in...

If the hon. Lady votes for this Bill, increased resources will be going into the NHS, including i...

One of the examples of this Government’s commitment to hospital infrastructure is the Midland Met...

I am happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss the needs of that hospital. It was started as a PFI,...

I am sure that my right hon. Friend agrees with me on the need for hospital capacity to grow as o...

Yes, I absolutely will. Milton Keynes hospital is extremely well run by fantastic staff. I did a ...

I will give way briefly before I conclude.

I thank the Secretary of State both for his commitment to fund the new £46 million urgent care hu...

The funding will be paid to the hospitals imminently, but it is definitely coming, so they can ge...

A running theme throughout the Secretary of State’s speech has been an integrated approach to pre...

Of course. The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, my hon. Friend the Member for...

This is not a serious funding Bill; it is an underfunding Bill. It is a political gimmick of a Bi...

It is what the British people say.

That is pretty dismal by the Secretary of State’s standards. [Interruption.] I am aware that his ...

In my constituency and the borough of Enfield, almost 16,000 people do not have access to a GP. D...

The Secretary of State talks about recruiting all these new GPs. The Tories fought the 2015 gener...

Given the vision the hon. Gentleman has just created of the NHS in such a parlous state, why does...

We lost the general election, but that does not give Tory Members a free pass on the state of the...

Is my hon. Friend aware that twice in the past fortnight St George’s Hospital in Tooting has been...

My hon. Friend speaks movingly about the situation in her local trust. Of course, St George’s is ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that we have a crisis in respect of mental health nurses, who are not b...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, we are short of 44,000 nurses across the whole nat...

My hon. Friend is making an important speech and has just made reference to the cuts to capital b...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Because of the austerity that the Government have imposed on ...

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the NHS in Wales, which is run by the Welsh Labour Government. In n...

It is unacceptable, and sadly it is happening constantly in the English NHS. Of course, on certai...

In his earlier remarks, the hon. Gentleman mentioned social care. He will be aware that the Healt...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He is a considered authority on these m...

The hon. Gentleman makes some interesting points, but is it not the case that the best way forwar...

The Government have no proposals whatsoever. They have been talking about bringing forward a soci...

Is my hon. Friend aware that there is also a tendency for capital funding in new schemes to go to...

Order. The hon. Lady will have her chance to speak for quite some time later in the debate, and I...

My hon. Friend’s point is absolutely right, and she is right to raise it.

The point is this...

Order. It will be obvious to the House that a great many people wish to speak this evening and th...

It is a pleasure to see you in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. I refer hon. Members to my entry...

The right hon. Gentleman’s overall figure for health spend is correct, but the public health spen...

I suggest to the hon. Lady, whom I greatly respect, that the overall figure is actually what coun...

Will my right hon. Friend give us his views on the maternity safety training fund, which I unders...

When we talk about the workforce, training is vital. We know from the 2018 “Mind the Gap” report ...

Having spent 33 years as a surgeon at the very sharp end of the NHS, I welcome the multi-year fun...

I have raised with the Minister the concern about the cap that the Government have put on the spe...

The whole issue of English votes for English laws applying to Bills that have direct Barnett cons...

My hon. Friend is making a very good point about cutting away at prevention services. One of the ...

My hon. Friend does a lot of work on this topic. There is no doubt that a lot of investment must ...

It seems to me that the NHS Funding Bill is really just the beginning. If the Government are seri...

Does my hon. Friend accept that the purpose of the Bill is not to set out the absolute detail of ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that we should provide a long-term plan and a long-term budget...

In the recent election, the issue of the NHS was frequently debated in the media. Our constituent...

It is a pleasure to call Peter Gibson to give his maiden speech.

6.47 pm

The people of Darlington voted for Brexit in 2016 and, fulfilling my promise to them at the gener...

Order. I am aware that a large number of right hon. and hon. Members have come into the Chamber t...

It is an honour and pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson), and to be t...

It is a pleasure to call Lee Anderson to make his maiden speech.

7.5 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech; as we would say in Ash...

He hasn’t mentioned it at all.

This is my speech; thank you, Eddie.

My hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw has only menti...

It is a pleasure to call Neale Hanvey to make his maiden speech.

7.14 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my first speech, in this important d...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Neale Hanvey) on his maiden speech....

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dover (Mrs Elphicke), who made powerful arguments ...

I am afraid that I have to reduce the time limit to eight minutes.

7.38 pm

It is a great honour and privilege to speak about the NHS, which is a fantastic institution. Ther...

In my local borough of Sutton, the council has received a damning Ofsted report on its services f...

That is exactly the commitment made by the NHS plan: early diagnosis, followed by proper, wraparo...

Along with my Liberal Democrat colleagues, I naturally welcome all commitments to additional expe...

I am grateful to my south-west London colleague for giving way. She makes a passionate case for m...

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, and I completely agree that we need more support fo...

I congratulate those Members who have made their maiden speeches today, particularly my hon. Frie...

I agree with many of the things that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Gary Sambrook) j...

It is a pleasure to follow such a great speech and to see the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Brya...

I begin by declaring an interest, as I recently worked in the NHS—[Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”] T...

I call Andrew Bowie.

8.20 pm

Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I was not expecting to be called this early. [Interruptio...

He has not written his speech yet.

I am perfecting it. I am delighted to be called to speak at this time in this debate on a Bill th...

The hon. Gentleman was not in his place when I spoke earlier to point out the fact that if the gl...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, but my figures were from the Scottish Parliament Info...

The hon. Gentleman says that in Scotland the figure is 82% in respect of people meeting the cance...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I tend to agree with him, but I have deliber...

indicated dissent.

indicated dissent.

I am agreeing with the hon. Lady and the hon. Gentleman; I am trying not to get into that debate....

This is the second time I have addressed the House since my maiden speech. I wish to touch on the...

Does my hon. Friend agree that as part of that levelling-up priority, it is really important that...

Absolutely. The levelling-up agenda touches many parts of the country, including not only the nor...

Order. The time limit is six minutes with immediate effect.

8.36 pm

It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Tom Hunt), as Ipswich is both my...

I would like to talk a little bit about the future of the NHS. Quite rightly, we have talked a lo...

I welcome the hon. Member to his place. He is making an important point. I think most of us recog...

The key part is understanding the single patient view—how we best use it, and where that data is ...

Let me be clear from the start that the Conservative party is clearly the party of the national h...

My hon. Friend may canter as long as he likes, so long as he does not canter on to my patch.

I would not be seen dead in my hon. Friend’s patch. I have enough issues with my own.

There...

In a debate in August 2017, the Minister at the time agreed to reduce the starting age for bowel ...

I do. The stasis of the past few years, as we have wrestled with and resolved the issue of Brexit...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Will my hon. Friend forgive me if I do not? I just want to make two final points because I know t...

I am really grateful for the opportunity to participate in this debate, because it has particular...

It is a pleasure to take part in this debate. May I congratulate those who have made their maiden...

The hon. Member makes a very important point about rural provision and the difficulty for so many...

Regrettably, we have had one or two cases where that has been repeated. The ambulance service has...

I have spoken at length in this Chamber before about the prospects of an Island deal on the Isle ...

Order. If Members speak for four and a half minutes or so, everybody will get in.

9.10 pm