Written Question
Tuesday 13th April 2021
Asked by:
David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate pay levels for health and social care staff.
Answered by Helen Whately
- Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The independent Pay Review Bodies (PRBs) will make a recommendation on pay for National Health Service staff in the spring. In reaching their recommendations the PRBs will take into account the cost of living and inflation, recruitment and retention, morale and motivation, affordability and value for the taxpayer. The Department works closely with HM Treasury when submitting evidence to the PRBs.
Social care pay is set by care providers. We expect local authorities to pay providers a fair rate for care to enable fair levels of workforce pay.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 24 Mar 2021
NHS Pay
"It is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. I, too, pay tribute to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Paula Barker), who secured and opened this debate so eloquently.
As we know and has been said before, this week marks the first anniversary of the beginning …..."David Linden - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 24 Mar 2021
NHS Pay
"The Minister is setting out the bleak fiscal picture for the Government and the tough financial choices that have to be made. Will she explain, then, why they have seen fit to invest in more nuclear warheads but not in pay for NHS staff?..."David Linden - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 12th January 2021
Asked by:
David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
What steps his Department is taking to increase awareness of neonatal herpes.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
Reducing mortality and morbidity in maternity and neonatal services is a priority for this Government.
The national ambition is to halve the 2010 rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain injuries in babies occurring during or soon after birth by 2025.
The National Health Service website has a dedicated page on neonatal herpes, which sets out how neonatal herpes can be prevented.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Dec 2020
Healthcare Support Services: Conception to Age Two
"It is, as always, a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. As others have done, I want to start by congratulating the right hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Andrea Leadsom) on securing today’s debate. The right hon. Lady—I would say she is a friend—has been an absolutely tenacious …..."David Linden - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Dec 2020
Healthcare Support Services: Conception to Age Two
"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. I can remember—in a previous life, before I was elected to this place, when I worked for her—helping on the all-party parliamentary group on infant feeding and inequalities. I pay tribute to the work that she has done on that. …..."David Linden - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Dec 2020
Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out
"I, too, pay tribute to everybody in the NHS who will be administering the vaccine. One of the concerns I had at the beginning of lockdown was that many of my asylum-seeking constituents who have no recourse to public funds were very much left behind in the original lockdown. What …..."David Linden - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Dec 2020
Cancer in Teenagers and Young Adults
"It is, as always, a pleasure to see you in the chair, Sir Christopher. I very much miss serving on the Procedure Committee with you all those years ago, but it is a pleasure none the less to see you this morning.
I congratulate the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim …..."David Linden - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 30th November 2020
Asked by:
David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a response to EDM 521 on UK law on disability-selective abortion tabled by the hon. Member for Upper Bann.
Answered by Helen Whately
- Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Parliament decided the circumstances under which abortion can legally be undertaken. It would be for Parliament to decide whether to make any changes to the law on abortion. As with other matters of conscience, abortion is an issue on which the Government adopts a neutral stance and allows hon. Members to vote according to their moral, ethical or religious beliefs.
Written Question
Tuesday 20th October 2020
Asked by:
David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Kit Tarka Foundation.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
The Department has not had any discussions with the Kit Tarka Foundation.