NHS Funding Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment 1, page 1, line 14, at ...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dame Rosie. In my speech I will address amendment 2 and...

I do not want to detain the hon. Gentleman too long, because he is making a very good speech and ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I understand his frustration absolutely. I think...

I wonder if I could raise with my hon. Friend an example that I think makes his point, which is t...

My hon. Friend sets out very clearly the challenge that the Government face from the debt situati...

It is not within the Bill’s scope to press the Government on the need to have funding restored to...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is a matter of some regret that public health has not been...

In support of the case that my hon. Friend is making, I again mention Northwick Park Hospital, wh...

My hon. Friend is again showing what an assiduous and determined constituency MP he is. He might ...

When my hon. Friend talks about capital, I think of the hospital that was cancelled for my consti...

I am sure that if my hon. Friend continues with his determined campaign, he will see that hospita...

The hon. Gentleman is making some very fair points about the importance of investing in hospital ...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. We have all heard horror stories of workers in the h...

My hon. Friend will agree on the importance of the Countess of Chester Hospital to his area and m...

My hon. Friend makes a pertinent point. Both my parents are residents of north Wales but on occas...

I note the statistics the hon. Member has shared with the House, but how do they compare to the o...

Across the piece, some areas in Wales are actually performing better than areas in England. The d...

I want to raise again the example of Northwick Park Hospital, which serves my constituents. It ha...

There has to be a correlation between the number of closures my hon. Friend is seeing and his CCG...

Is that not the most critical weakness in the Bill? Given that inflation is expected to rise afte...

There are indeed many weaknesses in the Bill, which, given that it is so short, is quite an achie...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Justin Madders). ...

Does the right hon. Gentleman share my concern about the fact that the mental health charity Comb...

I am well aware of the fantastic work done by Combat Stress, and I think it is important for it t...

No, you are meant to face the Chair.

Thank you. I am sorry—I am new to this Back-Bench stuff. Apologies for not facing the Chair. I wi...

Is not that the key point? Young people’s experience of CAMHS on the ground is that they just can...

The hon Gentleman is absolutely right. On both sides of the Chamber, we are totally committed to ...

In support of what my right hon. Friend has said, I think that one of this Government’s great ini...

My hon. Friend has huge experience of this in local government, and he is absolutely right. The b...

I would like the right hon. Gentleman to consider whether he supports an important proposal that ...

They are both interesting ideas. The plan at the moment is that resource will be given to schools...

I declare an interest in that, a long time ago, I was a personal injury barrister, including in c...

My hon. Friend makes an important suggestion. We considered such a thing when I was at the Depart...

I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on securing the chairmanship of the Health and Social Car...

I do, because this Bill about the NHS in England. It would be nice if we occasionally had a word ...

I am grateful to the former Secretary of State for giving way. I admire his admitting his role in...

I can be honest with the hon. Gentleman and say that I regret not being able to build lots of hos...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I welcome his suggestion of a central design tea...

I agree with the hon. Lady. Maintenance is a big issue in many hospitals. A number of hospitals a...

My right hon. Friend mentioned targets and people getting access to care. The hon. Member for Har...

My hon. Friend neatly makes the point that I was hoping to make next. I will elaborate on the bri...

The third final point.

It was always the final point, and it is very much the final point.

The other area that is ...

Finally, here we are, in the English Parliament after all these years. Isn’t it great? The Mace i...

I wonder whether, like me, my hon. Friend feels that this English Parliament is actually pretty s...

Yes; I absolutely agree. My hon. Friend is right: I barely noticed the difference as this place m...

My hon. Friend’s secondment to the English Parliament is going rather well so far, although it is...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right; and we raised those points five years ago, when the EVEL proc...

I have never been a member of the Procedure Committee. The Countess of Chester, which is a founda...

There we go. We have now had as many Welsh and Scottish Members contributing from the Floor, as M...

Does my hon. Friend agree that, as I mentioned earlier, the fact that inflation could make these ...

Yes; my hon. Friend is absolutely right, and we would be very happy to support new clause 5 if th...

It is often cast up here that the Government in Scotland are not spending all the Barnett consequ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right on that. The Scottish National party has always pledged—we hav...

Does my hon. Friend agree that “per capita” is a much more informative way of describing spending...

I thank my hon. Friend for that. The contributions she is making demonstrate precisely why Member...

My hon. Friend has taken over the EVEL mantle with great aplomb. I understand that the “England o...

It really does not feel like that at the moment, does it? Hear no EVEL, see no EVEL, speak no EVE...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for allowing me to speak in the English Parliament for the

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Order. I am sure colleagues will appreciate that it is important that we actually talk about the ...

I wholeheartedly agree, Dame Rosie. I have addressed the amendments that we have an interest in, ...

I rise to speak to new clause 9, tabled in my name and those of the hon. Member for Central Ayrsh...

We have discussed today, and on many other occasions, the issues relating to child and adolescent...

The hon. Lady makes an apposite and correct point. We cannot talk about mental health just within...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. She is making some very good points. An interesting amendm...

My hon. Friend is right in that the things that are relevant to mental health cannot exclude the ...

I should like to reinforce that point. I in my constituency, as she in hers no doubt, have need t...

That point is extremely well made. Let me say, if I may, that there is also a challenge for any G...

I agree with the hon. Lady’s point about measuring outputs as well as inputs, but does she agree ...

The hon. Lady makes a very good point—I think there are probably two points there. The first is w...

I support what my hon. Friend is saying in her new clause about outputs. This is an issue that I ...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Just like physical health checks, which are very much pa...

Does the hon. Member recognise that we all know what we should be doing to look after our physica...

That is one of the best points that I have heard in this debate, and it is extremely well made. H...

Is it not particular to mental health that when we use the phrase “mental health” we actually mea...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. The challenge, as she recognises, is how we change the languag...

I rise to speak to the amendments in my name and the names of my colleagues.

As we have all...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate, because it is a rare one in so far as there is quite a ...

I wish to speak to new clause 2, which is tabled in my name and those of my Liberal Democrat coll...

What a pleasure it has been to listen to so many excellent speeches. In particular, I want to say...

You, Dame Eleanor, were not in the Chamber when the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Patrick Grady)...

The hon. Gentleman asks for clarification and raises a point that I have many times had cause to ...

I am very grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Amendment 2 concerns spending on mental health se...

indicated assent.

I am glad that he is nodding his head. Ten years ago, the Tory-Lib Dem Government cancelled the p...

I rise to speak in favour of the clauses in the Bill and against the amendments. I do not think t...

Members across the House have spoken about the importance of unanimity of purpose on mental healt...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott), not least becau...

I am grateful to my east midlands colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for North East Derbyshire ...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. I notice that it is now 5.10 pm and that the Minister is about...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right in regard to the procedure. If we finish this part of the ...

In the 15 or so minutes remaining to me, I will endeavour to address all the points that have bee...

rose—

I will give way very briefly, because the hon. Gentleman is eating into his own time.

The Minister is in a very accommodating mood. Does he accept that this Bill has funding implicati...

As has been very clear throughout the progression of this Bill so far, there are Barnett conseque...

This Bill is about funding, but buildings and services are key to delivering on our national heal...

My hon. Friend is a sound and vocal champion for her constituents in Stafford. I am sure that she...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, as I only have 10 minutes or so left.

Th...

Under the programme order of 27 January, I must now put the Questions necessary to dispose of the...

Can you read it again?

I could, but we might get to the stage where there are no votes at all.

When the proceeding...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. I am very sorry, but although I was listening very carefully, ...

I fully appreciate that the hon. Gentleman may not have caught all of that, but I happen to know ...

Will the Serjeant at Arms please investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby?

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. I think that we should mark this moment. This is the busiest t...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for expressing his concerns in such an articulate fashion, an...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. Perhaps you can enlighten me. Is this indeed the first time th...

I am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman does not quite explain the situation as it really is. Y...

Further to that point of order, Dame Eleanor. Is it not the case that health is a devolved matter...

I fully appreciate the point—[Interruption.] Order. This will not degenerate into a shouting matc...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. I have due regard for your judgments. When I first rose to spe...

I fully appreciate the point that the hon. Gentleman raises, and there may well be Barnett conseq...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. I know that Mr Speaker has strict rules about the use of promo...

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. I must say to her and to the Committee that I was hoping th...

I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.

There are no amendments on consideration.

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is great to be back in the United Kingdom Parliamen...

The hon. Gentleman’s analysis is not wrong. The knife has fallen. The House voted some days ago t...

indicated assent.

The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...

I remind hon. Members, although I do not think there is any need for reminding at this stage, tha...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. We are back in the English Parliament again and the absurdity ...

It is not as if any hon. Member of this House is ever invisible or, indeed, inaudible, but merely...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. [Interruption.] I hear the groans from my Conservative colleag...

I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes. I would say, as Mr Speaker always says, and...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. I always have due regard for you and anyone who sits in the Ch...

I believe I can, but as their voices have been drowned out by the English “Ayes”, I cannot hear t...

On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. I am grateful to you for allowing this point of order. I wonde...

That is not a point of order for the Chair, and my opinion on the matter is irrelevant. We have h...