Health: Liver Disease

Lord Hill of Oareford Excerpts

Tuesday 6th May 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale]

I was up three times before.

[The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Hill of Oareford) (Con)]

My Lords, we are against the clock. It is the Labour Benches.

[Noble Lords]

Front Bench.

NHS: General Practitioners

Lord Hill of Oareford Excerpts

Wednesday 26th February 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Grocott (Lab)]

My Lords—

[The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Hill of Oareford) (Con)]

My Lords, it is the turn of the Labour Party.

[Lord Grocott]

As the Minister was tempted, perhaps a little unwisely, to go down memory lane by way of explaining the current circumstances in the health service, perhaps I could tempt him to go a little further back down it by reminding him that it was the Labour Party which built the National Health Service in the teeth of Tory opposition. If you want to have the health service maintained in future, the secret is to get a Labour Government.

NHS: Patient Data

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Tuesday 25th February 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Cormack (Con)]

My Lords—

[The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Hill of Oareford) (Con)]

Let us hear briefly from the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and then we can go to the other side.

[Lord Cormack]

Will my noble friend assure the House that the leaflet which was recently sent out, and which was far from satisfactory, will be replaced by something that really communicates what people need to know?

Female Genital Mutilation

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Thursday 7th November 2013 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)]

My Lords—

[The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Hill of Oareford) (Con)]

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord West, could not see that a Cross-Bencher behind him wanted to speak.

[Baroness Butler-Sloss]

My Lords, will the Minister ensure that the police and the Crown Prosecution Service put forward far more appropriate prosecutions?

Smoking: Cigarette Packaging

Lord Hill of Oareford Excerpts

Tuesday 16th July 2013 Lords Chamber

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock]

My Lords—

[The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Hill of Oareford)]

We will briefly hear from my noble friend and then go over to the other side.

[Lord Naseby]

I congratulate my noble friend on not rushing in to another unproven restriction on the consumption of alcohol, particularly one which has legal dimensions that affect intellectual property rights. Can he confirm that consumption of cigarettes is already falling, and that we are already spending something like over £50 million on tobacco control? Is not the greatest problem at the moment illegal smuggling of cigarettes into this country, which costs the Revenue a huge amount of money—close on £200 million—and is consumed principally by young people?