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Northern Ireland — House of Commons, 2017-06-26
Topic: Defense
Damian Howard Green (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right. I am sorry; I did not read out the entire agreement because you might have objected to that, Mr Speaker, but he is absolutely right. One of the things on which the DUP and the Conservative party are completely united is making sure that we meet our NATO commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence. I hope my hon. Friend would also welcome the first sailing of the new aircraft carrier today, which shows that this party, and indeed the DUP, are very serious about defending our country.
Northern Ireland — House of Commons, 2017-06-26
Topic: Health
Damian Howard Green (Conservative, Centre-right): As I have explained to the shadow First Secretary, this Government are committed to spending an extra £8 billion on the NHS in this Parliament, as well as an extra £4 billion on education and an extra £23 billion on infrastructure as a whole around the whole of the United Kingdom. I hope and expect that the people of Dewsbury will be able to benefit from that like everyone else.
National Shipbuilding Strategy — House of Commons, 2017-09-06
Topic: Defense
Julian Murray Lewis (Conservative, Centre-right): Where warships are concerned, quantity is a form of quality because even the most powerful warship can be in only one place at any one time. I therefore warmly welcome the strategy, particularly its acknowledgement, in the section on strategic context, that: "There is a need for greater volume in the destroyer and frigate force if we are to deliver the required operational flexibility." The Secretary of State mentioned the 1970s. He will know that in the 1970s we had as many as 70 frigates and destroyers. In the mid-1990s, we had 35 frigates and destroyers, and successive Governments incrementally reduced that to 32, 31, 25 and our current total of 19, which the Select Committee on Defence described as "woefully inadequate" My right hon. Friend is entirely on the right lines in saying that we need to grow the fleet. Will he do everything in his power to ensure that what happened to the Type 45 destroyers, and to some extent to the Type 26 frigates—as the build went on, they became increasingly complex and expensive so that we ended up with fewer ships at the end of the process—does not happen to the Type 31e?
National Shipbuilding Strategy — House of Commons, 2017-09-06
Topic: Defense
Rishi Sunak (Conservative, Centre-right): I commend the Secretary of State for his Department’s being the leader across Government in the employment of apprentices, especially at Catterick garrison in my constituency. Will he reassure the House that the use of apprentices will be a key factor in the procurement process to ensure that this exciting new national shipbuilding strategy can support the aspirations of young people across the UK?
National Shipbuilding Strategy — House of Commons, 2017-09-06
Topic: Defense
Michael Fallon (Conservative, Centre-right): I can certainly give my hon. Friend that undertaking. We will be looking carefully at the commitment to apprenticeships from the yards that tender for this ship. He is right to remind the House that the armed forces are the single biggest employer of apprentices in the entire country. We play a huge role in developing apprenticeships as a fully valued alternative to more academic studies and as a pathway to a rewarding career.
Disabled People — House of Commons, 2017-02-20
Topic: Health
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (Conservative, Centre-right): First, I put on the record my thanks to my hon. Friend and Members of all parties in the House who have held local consultation events. Doing so was incredibly important and has made this a very good consultation, but it is also vital in establishing and building such local networks. My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the solutions have to be local ones, not least because healthcare is commissioned locally. I can give him reassurances that we will bear that in mind as we go forward.
Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2017-02-20
Topic: Defense
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment 5, page 2, line 17, at end insert ", or (c) a foreign national serving under the military command of the UK Armed Forces." This amendment would ensure that an offence is committed if an act described in paragraph 1(d) or (e) of Article 15 of the Second Protocol is committed by any foreign national serving under the military command of the UK Armed Forces. Amendment 1, in clause 17, page 8, line 12, leave out "or having reason to suspect" Amendment 2, page 8, line 12, leave out "having reason to suspect" and insert "believing" Amendment 3, page 8, line 12, leave out "having reason to suspect" and insert "suspecting".
Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2017-02-20
Topic: Defense
Thomas Georg John Tugendhat (Conservative, Centre-right): The question is slightly harder to answer than it might initially appear. On operations, foreign armed forces are embedded with and serve alongside British troops in various guises and in many different capacities. Unless the hon. Gentleman can be more specific, I can understand the MOD’s difficulty.
Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2017-02-20
Topic: Defense
Timothy Paul Loughton (Conservative, Centre-right): I appreciate that these are probing amendments, because if the hon. Gentleman were to press them to the vote, I do not think he would get much support from the people behind him. However, will he explain what he thinks is the difference between the terminology in the Bill, which is "a person subject to UK service jurisdiction", and that in his amendment, which is "a foreign national serving under the military command of the UK Armed Forces", because he has not answered that question yet?
Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2017-02-20
Topic: Culture
David John Barrington Burrowes (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. and learned Friend does himself an injustice: repetition can be a good thing, if he is right, but it might not be such a good thing if the point is overstated. I refer him to the Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2003, as well as the EU Council regulation on Syrian cultural property, where the wording is: "had no reason to suppose" That is similar to the wording in the Bill, and I understand that there has been no grave injustice served on those law-abiding, prudent antique dealers who have been observing those provisions.
Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2017-02-20
Topic: Culture
Victoria Lorne Peta Borwick (Conservative, Centre-right): I declare that I am president of the British Antique Dealers’ Association and that I have also been advised by the British Art Market Federation, the Antiquities Dealers’ Association and LAPADA, all of which have made written representations on this Bill. I concur with the comments of my colleagues that the art and antiques industry is fully supportive of the principles and aims of this Bill.
Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2017-02-20
Topic: Culture
Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch (Conservative, Centre-right): I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time Today is an important milestone in our drive to protect cultural property not only in this country but around the world, and particularly in places where it is threatened by armed conflict. The 1954 Hague convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and its two protocols are an important part of the international legal framework for protecting cultural property. Since 2004, successive Governments have promised to bring forward the legislation required to enable the United Kingdom to ratify the convention and accede to the protocols. I am delighted that this Government have finally been able to do so, and I thank my right hon. Friends the Members for Maldon (Mr Whittingdale) and for Wantage (Mr Vaizey) for securing time for the Bill in this Session The Bill, together with The Hague convention and its protocols, fits into the wider framework of our initiatives to protect cultural property. I recently had the pleasure of visiting the British Museum to learn more about its Iraq emergency heritage management training scheme, which is helping to build capacity in the Iraqi state board of antiquities and heritage by training staff in a wide range of sophisticated techniques of retrieval and rescue archaeology. The scheme is supported by £3 million from our new cultural protection fund. That fund, which is managed by the British Council, is so far supporting nine projects to the tune of £8.8 million, using British knowledge and expertise in places where cultural heritage is at risk The first group of Iraqi participants completed their training in November. One of them has already been appointed by the Iraqi state board to lead the assessment of the site of Nimrud, which was recently liberated from Daesh control. The second group of participants is now in training at the British Museum, and I am delighted that they are in the Public Gallery to witness our debate and the passing of this important Bill.
Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-10-20
Topic: Health
Jeremy John Elton Lefroy (Conservative, Centre-right): I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman thought that, but I am most grateful to him for giving way and for all the work that he has done on this incredibly important Bill. On a point of definition, we could consider in Committee the inclusion of minor injuries units as well as urgent treatment centres and emergency departments. Aside from the nature of the injuries treated at each one, the public do not see much difference between those three types of emergency unit.
Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-10-20
Topic: Health
David Thomas Morris (Conservative, Centre-right): I have read in the newspapers—in truth, I do not know if this is correct—that when people have an AIDS test or something similar, their insurance is reviewed. Could we put in the Bill, during the Committee stage, special provision for emergency workers so they are not penalised in this way by certain insurance companies?
Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill — House of Commons, 2017-10-20
Topic: Health
Gareth Alan Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I certainly hope that that is the case. What is positive about this is the fact that there is a cross-party consensus, and the Government are supporting the Bill. I think that an awful lot of work needs to be done by Government lawyers, and I hope that some of the lawyers in the Ministry of Justice will work closely with the hon. Gentleman to ensure that we have a workable Bill at the end of the process I also think that the Bill has problems with the definition of an emergency worker. The hon. Gentleman said he accepted that it did not cover all the medical workers that he wanted it to cover. The overwhelming majority of NHS workers would not be covered as things stand. It has been mentioned that people working in minor injury units will not be covered by the Bill in its present form, and that needs to change. A receptionist working in A&E would be covered, but a nurse working on a ward in a minor or other injuries unit would not. That is an anomaly that must be ironed out, and I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has acknowledged that.
Counter-Daesh Update — House of Commons, 2017-11-07
Topic: Defense
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I warmly applaud the sentiments my hon. Friend has expressed about our serving men and women. We should all take the opportunity of this statement to recognise their towering achievement in clearing Daesh out of 90% of the territory it previously occupied in Iraq and Syria.
Employment and Disabled People — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Health
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (Conservative, Centre-right): In recent years the Department has introduced a number of measures to ensure that those who carry out assessments for either personal independence payments or ESA have had training so that they can recognise a mental health condition and flag up that condition or any concerns they may have. However, the work capability assessment itself is not working. It was introduced by the Labour party—[Interruption]—with the best intentions, but it has elements that do not work. Given the opportunities that will result from the work and health road map, I hope that Labour will work with us to reform those elements.
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Defense
Daniel Robert Kawczynski (Conservative, Centre-right): There are five key NATO countries that are committed to the defence of our continent that are not members of the EU, and we will soon join that group. Will the Prime Minister give me an assurance that she will work closely with those countries, and with countries such as Poland that are on the frontline with Russia, to ensure that NATO continues to be the supreme defence posture for our continent, rather than a single European army?
UK Plans for Leaving the EU — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Defense
Alexander John Gervase Chalk (Conservative, Centre-right): Constituents of mine at GCHQ play an expert and invaluable role in the defence of this nation and the continent of Europe. Does the Prime Minister agree that the unconditional guarantee of ongoing intelligence co-operation is a constructive step that should help to pave the way to early trade talks?
Gypsies and Travellers and Local Communities — House of Commons, 2017-10-09
Topic: Health
Alok Kumar Sharma (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that the way in which the NHS currently accounts for people is based on the breakdown in the 2001 census. He will know, however, that an ongoing piece of work in the NHS is looking at whether we can move to using the categories in the 2011 census, which includes Gypsies and Travellers.
European Council — House of Commons, 2017-12-18
Topic: Defense
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I can absolutely give that reassurance to my hon. Friend. We are unconditionally committed to maintaining Europe’s defence, and we will continue to play a key role in Europe’s defence. We will do so, obviously and crucially, through NATO, but we also want to continue to work with our European friends and allies.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2017-11-13
Topic: Health
Questions: The Minister will know that motor neurone disease is a degenerative disease, so may I ask what plans the Government have to ensure that people who suffer from that terrible disease do not have to be re-assessed for personal independence payments?
Sarah Louise Newton (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for that very important question. The length of an award is based on an individual’s circumstances: it can vary from an award of nine months to an ongoing award involving a light-touch review at the 10-year point. It is very unlikely that somebody he describes would have another face-to face assessment with a healthcare professional.
Shortage of Doctors: Medical Provision — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right to raise the question. I visited a GP surgery in Thornbury, in his neighbouring county, on Friday and discussed some of these issues. The NHS has an obligation to make sure that people can access its services, and in certain circumstances people are entitled to funding to help them do that. I thank him for raising the issue, however, and know that he will continue to fight hard on it.
Shortage of Doctors: Medical Provision — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
James Stephen Heappey (Conservative, Centre-right): A shortage of nurses has led to the closure of the in-patient ward at Shepton Mallet Community Hospital this winter. What have the Government done to increase the number of nurses available in rural areas such as Somerset, and to encourage the Somerset clinical commissioning group to recommit itself to the hospital’s future as a matter of urgency?
Shortage of Doctors: Medical Provision — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate my hon. Friend on the close interest that he takes in his local community hospital, which matters so much not just to his constituents but to the NHS, because many people are discharged to it from busy district general hospitals. As he says, there has been a shortage of nurses. That is why we have decided to increase the number of training places by 25%, which is the biggest increase in the history of the NHS.
Shortage of Doctors: Medical Provision — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): We have introduced something similar. In areas where it has been difficult to recruit GP trainees for three years or more, we have provided a £20,000 salary supplement to attract people to those areas. It has been very successful, and we have extended it to 200 places this year.
Shortage of Doctors: Medical Provision — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani (Conservative, Centre-right): High Weald Lewes Havens clinical commissioning group has undertaken a consultation on closing Rotherfield surgery, which is in my constituency, against the wishes of the community and local councillors. Does my right hon. Friend agree that CCGs have responsibilities and liabilities when it comes to supporting rural practices, and that they should do all that they can to recruit GPs in rural areas?
Shortage of Doctors: Medical Provision — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I do agree. I also know that, although areas such as Wealden are beautiful places in which to live, it is sometimes very difficult to recruit people to become, in particular, new partners in general practices in such areas. We are concerned about that. Nationally, we have a plan to recruit 5,000 more GPs by 2020-21, but we need to ensure that they go to rural areas such as that represented by my hon. Friend.
Shortage of Doctors: Medical Provision — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I have been clear about this: the Government are willing to be flexible in terms of funding additional pay beyond the 1% for nurses, but we want some important reforms to the contracts that they operate under. If those negotiations go well—at the moment we have been having very constructive discussions with the Royal College of Nursing—I am hopeful that we can get a deal that everyone will be happy with.
GPs: Patient Access — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): This Government have changed policy so that all NHS patients will be able to book routine GP appointments in the evening and at weekends. That is very important both for NHS patients and to relieve pressure on A&E departments.
GPs: Patient Access — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman (Conservative, Centre-right): In September, Jubilee surgery, Whiteley surgery, Stubbington medical practice and Highlands practice launched a same-day access scheme in Fareham, based at Fareham Community Hospital, which had the honour of welcoming the Secretary of State on a visit last year. It is commission-led and supported by Fareham Community Hospital taskforce. Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the GPs—including Dr Tom Bertram, who has taken the lead on this scheme—and Fareham and Gosport clinical commissioning group, and explain how patients will be able to access a GP in Fareham?
GPs: Patient Access — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I was honoured to meet them, and Richard Samuel and his team have done a fantastic job in transforming services in a way that reduces pressure on local hospitals, but also improves services for local people. There was a real buzz there. I also note that neighbouring Gosport has made changes that have improved patient satisfaction to 90%, with 60% of issues being dealt with on the same day. So some really exciting things are happening.
GPs: Patient Access — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Those are important questions. I had an excellent visit to Warrington hospital towards the end of the summer, and saw some fantastic work there, particularly on sepsis prevention. The hon. Lady is right: the issues are, first, about getting more medical school graduates to go into general practice—this year we think we will get 3,019 medical school graduates to go into general practice, which is a record as the number has never been that high; and this is also about retention and looking at some of the things that frustrate GPs. One of them is the costs of indemnity, their insurance policy, so we have announced that we will move to a national scheme to help control those costs.
GPs: Patient Access — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Nigel Martin Evans (Conservative, Centre-right): One village medical practice in my constituency, in Slaidburn, was under threat a few years ago, but fortunately it was saved. It does tremendous service to the local community. If it was not there, the elderly patients would have to travel over 40 minutes to Clitheroe, and there is no capacity to take any extra people there. Will the Secretary of State ensure that practices like Slaidburn have a future?
GPs: Patient Access — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): It is essential in very rural constituencies such as my hon. Friend’s that we continue to have active GP surgeries; I notice that they sometimes give the best care in the whole NHS, because they know patients and their families and there is continuity of care. They are incredibly important for the local community, so I congratulate my hon. Friend on what he did to save that practice.
GPs: Patient Access — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): No one should have to wait weeks for a GP appointment in Stroud or anywhere else. We have a lack of capacity in general practice, which is why we decided to embark on a plan to get 5,000 more doctors working in general practice. That is one of the biggest ever increases in the capacity of general practice. I am afraid that it will take time to feed its way through the system, but we are confident that we will deliver it.
Maternity Services — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): It is me again, Mr Speaker. Every week, we have four claims against the NHS relating to brain-injured babies, and there is still far too much avoidable harm and avoidable death when it comes to our maternity services. That is why I launched an ambition in 2014 to halve the amount of neonatal death, neonatal injury, maternal death and stillbirths.
Maternity Services — House of Commons, 2017-11-14
Topic: Health
Antoinette Geraldine Sherratt (Sandbach) (Conservative, Centre-right): The Secretary of State has rightly focused on the importance of reducing infant mortality. The police are investigating the unusually high number of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Will he update my constituents on the progress of that investigation and on the measures being taken to ensure safety at the Countess of Chester, which serves the northern part of my constituency?