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Hospitals in Special Measures — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Heidi Alexander (Labour, Centre-left): I do listen carefully to the Health Secretary and sometimes I end up wondering what planet he is living on. There are as many trusts in special measures now as there are trusts that have come out of special measures. Just because different people in different places are experiencing poor care does not make the overall picture any better. When will the right hon. Gentleman accept that the overall amount of resource going into the system is simply inadequate if he wishes to provide high quality, timely care for all?
Hospitals in Special Measures — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (Labour, Centre-left): The Secretary of State will know that with depressing regularity the same hospitals come up on that list that he has just referred to. Sustainability and transformation plans provide the opportunity to address some of the unsustainable elements of local health economies, but only, as my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) says, if the money is there. With the health service facing its tightest financial settlement in its history, these plans are just not deliverable.
Healthcare Spending — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Questions: How much his Department spent on healthcare as a proportion of GDP in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2015-16; and what estimate he has made of the amount that will be spent on healthcare as a proportion of GDP in 2020-21.
Peter Christopher Dowd (Labour, Centre-left): While welcome, that creative response does not answer the question. The fall in GDP spent on health is worrying. To mitigate that fall, when can my constituency expect its share of the Brexit NHS bonus to be injected into its health economy, which would bring in £30 million a year?
Healthcare Spending — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Questions: How much his Department spent on healthcare as a proportion of GDP in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2015-16; and what estimate he has made of the amount that will be spent on healthcare as a proportion of GDP in 2020-21.
Margaret Olivia Hillier (Labour, Centre-left): Today I publish my first annual report as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, in which I conclude that there is a sustainability crisis in the funding of the NHS. Surely the Secretary of State will agree—he has made some comments in the media that suggest he is becoming aware of this—that he will need to lobby the Chancellor for a better settlement in the autumn statement. Will he update the House on his negotiations?
Healthcare Spending — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Questions: How much his Department spent on healthcare as a proportion of GDP in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2015-16; and what estimate he has made of the amount that will be spent on healthcare as a proportion of GDP in 2020-21.
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth (Labour, Centre-left): But we have seen public health budgets cut and social care budgets cut, and I can now tell the House that the maintenance budgets have been cut. In fact, the backlog of high-risk maintenance facing the NHS has soared by 69% in the past year. In London alone, the high-risk backlog has grown by £338 million; across the country the figure is nearly £5 billion. NHS finances are so stretched that even the most urgent repairs are being left undone. Is this what the Secretary of State meant when he said that he is giving the NHS the money it asked for?
Healthcare Spending — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Questions: How much his Department spent on healthcare as a proportion of GDP in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2015-16; and what estimate he has made of the amount that will be spent on healthcare as a proportion of GDP in 2020-21.
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth (Labour, Centre-left): Thank you, Mr Speaker If everything is so rosy with the NHS’s finances, why did Simon Stevens say just a couple of weeks ago that "2018-19 will be the most pressurised year for us, where we will actually have negative per-person NHS funding growth in England"— in other words, that NHS spending per head will be falling? The number of patients waiting longer than four hours in A&Es has increased. The number of days lost to delayed discharge has increased. The number of people waiting more than 62 days to start cancer treatment following referral has increased. Should not the Secretary of State do his job and make sure that next week’s autumn statement delivers the money that the NHS urgently needs?
Cancer Referral Times — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Questions: What the average time taken is between referral and treatment for patients with (a) ovarian and (b) bowel cancer; and if he will make a statement.
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (Labour, Centre-left): Is it not the case that only skin cancer and breast cancer referrals are meeting that 62-day target? Is it not unsurprising that the survival rate over 10 years is 78% for breast cancer and 89% for skin cancer, whereas it is 35% for ovarian cancer and 57% for bowel cancer? How does the Minister feel about these excess deaths, and what is he going to do to ensure that people with these cancers are treated in time?
Childhood Obesity Strategy — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Keith Anthony Vaz (Labour, Centre-left): Yesterday, on World Diabetes Day, the Prime Minister opened the new headquarters of Diabetes UK and said that the number of cases of diabetes increased by 75% in the last decade. The Minister and I attended the launch of the Food Foundation’s declaration on how to tackle obesity. Which of the 10 measures put forward by the foundation has she decided to accept?
Childhood Obesity Strategy — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Sharon Hodgson (Labour, Centre-left): Another target that "Dispatches" uncovered was to be scrapped was the target to halve childhood obesity by 2026. This was compounded by recent national childhood measurement data showing that obesity is on the rise and that obesity rates are more than double in deprived areas compared with more affluent ones. Instead of squandering this opportunity, the Government should be pushing ahead with a comprehensive and preventive strategy. Can the Minister explain, therefore, why this significant target was dropped from the Government’s plans to tackle childhood obesity?
Sustainability and Transformation Plans — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): Yesterday, the King’s Fund rightly characterised what is euphemistically called the sustainability and transformation project as being planned in secret, behind the backs of patients and the public. In Merseyside and Wirral, we know from leaks that the Government are going to cut £1 billion from our local national health service, which, despite rising demand, will close hospitals, downgrade many accident and emergency departments and possibly leave the whole of Wirral without an acute hospital. Will the Minister now come clean and publish these plans in full, and will he undertake to visit Wirral so that my constituents in Wallasey can come and have a word with him about his plans for their NHS?
Delayed Hospital Discharges — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Questions: What assessment he has made of the effect of changes to local authority social care budgets on the level of delayed discharges from hospital.
Tom Blenkinsop (Labour, Centre-left): The Care Quality Commission has commented that social care is on the verge of collapse. The Government have had six years of warnings in relation to this matter, yet they have cut £4 billion from the social care budget. Will the Secretary of State for Health be talking to his colleague the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ensure that the £4 billion is replaced in the autumn statement?
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Stella Judith Creasy (Labour, Centre-left): My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. This is such an important point for our economy, as we know in my part of London, where the Barts trust has the largest predicted overspend in NHS history. Does he agree that it is vital that those who campaigned on the pledge that this money would be provided are held to account, because communities such as mine are suffering without investment in the NHS?
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Wesley Paul William Streeting (Labour, Centre-left): My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the claim of £350 million a week for the NHS was at the centre of Vote Leave’s campaign. Leave campaigners were given a number of opportunities to review, qualify or disown the claim, including following strident criticism from all members—remainers and leavers—of the Treasury Committee. The fact they chose not to distance themselves from the claim surely demonstrates that this is a promise that ought to be delivered. If it is not delivered, they will have some explaining to do.
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Chuka Harrison Umunna (Labour, Centre-left): I completely agree with my hon. Friend. As he said, it was significant that the Treasury Committee came to its conclusion, since it is a cross-party Committee whose members include leavers and remainers As my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) said, we know that the NHS needs extra cash. The Minister also knows this. As members of the Health Committee pointed out last month, the deficit in NHS trusts and foundation trusts in 2015-16 was more than £3.5 billion.
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Stella Judith Creasy (Labour, Centre-left): The Minister could also work to renegotiate the private finance initiative loans that are crippling our NHS, and not use PF2 to do that. In order to do that, we need money in the NHS to be able to renegotiate. Surely the £350 million would help get us to that place; it would help us to renegotiate our debt, get our constituents back into work and get our NHS fit for purpose in the 21st century?
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Chuka Harrison Umunna (Labour, Centre-left): To be absolutely clear to the Minister, the ask was that the Chancellor should set out the path for achieving this payment after we have left. I want to ask the Minister two questions. First, given his view that the pledge to make a payment to the NHS was made not by the Government but by the campaign, would he say that it was wrong for people to go around giving the impression that the Government would dish out that money? Secondly, for the record, is he saying that this Government will not meet that pledge?
Leaving the EU: NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-11-15
Topic: Health
Chuka Harrison Umunna (Labour, Centre-left): Given what the Minister is saying, does he believe that it was wrong to go around giving people the impression that all they needed to do was vote to leave the European Union in order for £350 million a week to be dished out to the NHS?
Child Refugees: Age Checks — House of Commons, 2016-10-21
Topic: Health
Kevin Denis Brennan (Labour, Centre-left): My constituent, Norman Vetter, sent me an extract this morning from the British Medical Journal, which states: "Medical estimation of age is still inaccurate and the results are unreliable." It goes on to say: "Age estimations have standard deviations of more than 12 months and are limited by intraindividual discrepancies, racial differences, and poor inter-rater reliability", and concludes: "Ethically, it is hard to justify treating someone as an adult based on such unreliable data." Does the Minister agree?
British Film Industry — House of Commons, 2016-12-15
Topic: Culture
Barry John Sheerman (Labour, Centre-left): I was born in the shadow of Shepperton film studios and have long had links with the film industry, so may I urge the Secretary of State to do something about getting more apprentices into the film sector? Our great directors and many of our great actors left school at 14 or 15 and did apprenticeships. Today, too many people at the top are not very creative, because they all went to Eton. Will she do something about getting ordinary kids into the film industry again?
Channel 4 — House of Commons, 2016-12-15
Topic: Culture
David Lindon Lammy (Labour, Centre-left): Is the Minister comfortable with the fact that currently Channel 4 has no one from a diverse background on its board, and will he explain the process by which he or the Secretary of State made a decision that excluded the deputy chief executive of the Arts Council from that board?
Global Trade — House of Commons, 2016-12-15
Topic: Defense
Barry Strachan Gardiner (Labour, Centre-left): One of the steps that the Government are taking to expand UK trade is through arms sales, particularly to the middle east. In July, the Committees on Arms Export Controls heard evidence that there was an imbalance in arms sales, with promotion coming at the expense of regulation "such that in UK practice those things are at odds." Does the Secretary of State recognise that imbalance? If he does, what does he propose to do about it? If he does not, has he chastised the White House for the remarks this week that "systemic, endemic" problems in Saudi Arabia’s targeting of civilians in Yemen drove the US decision to halt a future weapons sale, which has the Secretary of State and British policy in this area looking callous and threadbare?
Autumn Statement — House of Commons, 2016-11-23
Topic: Defense
Nicholas Desmond John Smith (Labour, Centre-left): Given the decline in the value of sterling, how much will we have to pay for the F-35 fighters to go on our aircraft carriers? The present going rate is $100 million a time. Has the Chancellor increased his estimate of the cost of these fighters and other defence kit imports for future years?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2016-11-23
Topic: Health
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth (Labour, Centre-left): Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker, and further to the desire of the hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) for veracity and truth, may I get your guidance on Government claims that they are spending an extra £10 billion on the national health service? I asked the UK Statistics Authority to look into this, and when it wrote to me this week it told me that an issue that has "caused confusion is that while NHS England spending is rising, some other elements of the Department of Health budget are decreasing." The authority continues that it "will be asking that HM Treasury investigate whether in future they can present estimates for NHS England and total health spending separately." Given this guidance, and given that there is not one extra penny piece announced by the Chancellor today for health and social care, can you, Mr Speaker, use your good offices to ensure that the Prime Minister and other Ministers desist from using this bogus claim?
Yemen — House of Commons, 2016-12-19
Topic: Defense
Ann Clwyd (Labour, Centre-left): I am sorry to say this, but for those of us with long memories, this is a reminder of the sort of discussions we used to have on arms to Iraq. Eventually, through the Scott inquiry, we found that Ministers had misled us; I will not put it any stronger than that. Those who were here at that time should reflect on the kind of answers that were given to us. We knew what was going on in Iraq. We know what is going on in Yemen. How can we possibly support continuing to send arms to Saudi Arabia that are being used in that country?
Yemen — House of Commons, 2016-12-19
Topic: Defense
Christopher John Bryant (Labour, Centre-left): I commend the Defence Secretary for making a statement rather than being dragged here to answer an urgent question. That is an important part of the way we do our business, and I commend him for it I support what the Defence Secretary says about Saudi Arabia having the right to defend itself, but surely not at any cost and not in any way—that is all we are trying to get at. When the hon. Member for Ludlow (Mr Dunne), who is an honourable man, and who I do not think for an instant wanted to mislead the House, said in May that, based "on all the information available to us, including sensitive coalition operational reporting, we assess that no UK-supplied cluster weapons have been used"—[Official Report, 24 May 2016; Vol. 611, c. 401.] had he been lied to by our coalition allies, and, if so, can we really trust anything the Saudis say today?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2016-12-19
Topic: Defense
Stephen John Doughty (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The deliberations on the statement we have just had show why it is absolutely vital that we have robust parliamentary scrutiny of UK arms exports. In that light, have you or Mr Speaker received any notification of any Committee attempting to withdraw from the Committees on Arms Export Controls structure, which exists to scrutinise UK arms exports and has done so for many years, formerly as the Quadripartite Committee?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2016-12-19
Topic: Defense
Ian Murray (Labour, Centre-left): Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I do not want to prolong this discussion, but I wonder whether anything could be done through your or Mr Speaker’s good offices to get together the Chairs of the Committees that make up the Committees on Arms Export Controls to try to get this impasse resolved for the benefit of our constituents, who want robust arms export controls in this House.
Domestic Abuse — House of Commons, 2016-10-31
Topic: Health
Jenny Chapman (Labour, Centre-left): New reports suggest that nurses are three times more likely to be victims of domestic abuse than the general population. Will the Minister undertake to speak to colleagues in the Department of Health about what the NHS, as an employer, may need to do to support this group?
Heroin Addiction — House of Commons, 2016-10-31
Topic: Health
John Mann (Labour, Centre-left): With most drug services having been privatised across England in the past three years, the figures that the Minister has just quoted are fake, aren’t they? They are fake figures. Outcomes are no longer being measured on a health basis, are they? Will the Minister tell us what the outcomes currently are when it comes to heroin treatment?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2016-10-31
Topic: Defense
Carolyn Harris (Labour, Centre-left): We are experiencing a cut of over 30% to fire and rescue services funding, with 10,000 jobs lost. Rescues are at an all-time high, with firefighters carrying out, on average, more than 100 rescues per day. Speed is essential when responding, but with fewer firefighters and fewer fire stations, the possibility of a slow response could mean the loss of life. Will the Minister acknowledge that now is the time to invest in the fire and rescue services and stop the reckless cuts—to prioritise saving lives, not saving money?
NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-10-31
Topic: Health
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth (Labour, Centre-left): This morning the Chair of the Health Committee and her colleagues on that Committee said that the Government’s NHS spending claims were "inaccurate" and "false". The Opposition agree with that analysis. Ministers—and the Secretary of State has just done this again—tell us that they are investing £10 billion more in the NHS, but it has now been confirmed that that figure is "not only incorrect but risks giving a false impression that the NHS is awash with cash." Is not the reality that the Government have cut adult social care, the public health budget and the NHS capital budget? Now we learn that the average amount we spend on healthcare for each person in this country will fall in 2018-19. Does that not raise serious questions about the claims that Ministers, and, indeed, Prime Ministers, have been making from that Dispatch Box? In fact, the only way the Government’s figures could be further discredited is if the Secretary of State slapped them on the side of a bus and got the Foreign Secretary to drive it Will the Secretary of State admit that the Government have not actually given the NHS the money it needed? Will he give us an accurate account of spending plans for the NHS? Will he tell us when the Chancellor is going to respond to the Health Committee’s letter, and what representations he himself is making to the Chancellor ahead of the autumn statement We have also learned today from Health Service Journal that one in three local areas intend to close or downgrade A&E departments within 18 months, one in five expect to close consultant-led maternity services, and more than half plan to close or downgrade community hospitals. Will the Secretary of State confirm whether those reports are accurate? How many A&E departments, maternity units and community hospitals does the Secretary of State expect to close or be downgraded within the next year and a half? Our constituents want those answers Before the last election, the Secretary of State told us he was "confident" about delivering the money the NHS needed. Today that confidence has been exposed as utterly misplaced. Tory promises are completely in tatters. Rather than defending the Prime Minister’s spin on the £10 billion figure, why does the Secretary of State not stand up for patients and staff, and deliver the funding that the NHS and our social care sector desperately need?
NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-10-31
Topic: Health
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (Labour, Centre-left): The Government have been well and truly found out on this issue. Rather than quote selectively from Simon Stevens, the head of the NHS, will the Secretary of State confirm that among the conditions that Mr Stevens put down to the Government as part of the five-year review was an increase in public health spending, not a 20% cut, and a policy of maintaining spending on social care? Will he also confirm—he was there in Simon Stevens’ presence before the Select Committee—that Mr Stevens made it quite clear that those conditions and others had not been met?
NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-10-31
Topic: Health
Katherine Anne Green (Labour, Centre-left): NHS managers in Greater Manchester have made it clear that the pressures on the NHS are a function of pressures on the social care system and that costs are rising because of increases in the national living wage and the need to fund overnight cover. What is the Secretary of State doing to address those financial pressures on social care, given that the precept does no more than scratch the surface?
NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-10-31
Topic: Health
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): My constituents who are watching these exchanges will think that the Secretary of State is living in a parallel universe. The sustainability and transformation programme in Merseyside is reputed to be tackling a £1 billion deficit. The way in which it has decided to tackle it in Wirral, in my area, is to draw up plans to close Clatterbridge, our cancer hospital, to close Arrowe Park, our acute hospital, to close the Countess of Chester hospital, and to create some new hospital in Ellesmere Port at some time in the future. No one believes the blather from this Secretary of State.
NHS Funding — House of Commons, 2016-10-31
Topic: Health
Emma Elizabeth Reynolds (Labour, Centre-left): I was proud to sign the cross-party letter to the Chancellor on NHS funding, in which we quote the Care Quality Commission saying that "adult social care…is approaching a tipping point" and that is having an impact on those who rely on it and on "the performance" of the NHS. Does the Secretary of State recognise that this Government’s cutting social care funding by over a third was a false economy, that there will still be a gap in social care funding even if all councils took up the precept and that, for as long as we have that, we will have hospital deficits and delays?