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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Jun 2018
Childhood Obesity Strategy: Chapter 2

"As I understand it, a six-year-old will be 18 before the Minister’s proposed ban on the promotion of unhealthy food at supermarket checkouts will come into effect. Surely this is meant to be a crisis, not a long-term plan...."
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Written Question
NHS: Finance
Monday 25th June 2018

Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) cash sum and (b) real terms increase in NHS funding is planned to be for (i) 2018-2019, (ii) 2019-2020, (iii) 2020-2021, (iv) 2021-2022 and (v) 2022-2023.

Answered by Steve Barclay

My Rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister has announced a five-year funding agreement which will see the National Health Service budget grow by over £20 billion, in real terms, by 2023-24. The planned resource budgets for NHS England; and what these amount to as additional funding in real terms, are included in the following table. These planned increases will be confirmed at a future fiscal event, subject to an NHS plan that meets the tests we have set out.

Planned NHS England resource budgets, 2018-19 to 2023-24

NHS England Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (excluding depreciation)

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

New nominal budget (£ billion)

114.60

120.55

126.91

133.15

139.83

147.76

Cumulative real growth (2018/19 prices) (£ billion)

4.1

8.3

12.1

16.1

20.5

Real growth (%)

3.6%

3.6%

3.1%

3.1%

3.4%

Plus pensions funding (£ billion nominal)

1.25

1.25

1.25

1.25

1.25

Revised new nominal budget (£ billion)

114.60

121.80

128.16

134.40

141.08

149.01

This breakdown can also be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-sets-out-5-year-nhs-funding-plan


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 May 2018
NHS Outsourcing and Privatisation

"Will my hon. Friend give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 May 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Durham police tell me that when there is a problem on social media, particularly Facebook, it can take six months between their asking for action and the social media company tackling it. Will the Secretary of State speak to the Home Office to get the system changed and speed it …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 06 Feb 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"T9. In my constituency, Shildon medical centre and half of the Richardson Community Hospital are empty, yet patient services are being cut because the rents charged by NHS Property Services are too high. When will the Secretary of State sort out this waste of resources?..."
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Written Question
Drugs: Regulation
Friday 2nd February 2018

Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of his Department plans to respond to the remarks of the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland of 21 November 2017 made at the debate on medicines regulation, Official Report. columns 322 to 353.

Answered by Steve Brine

I responded to the hon. Member on 30 November 2017 and a copy of the letter is attached.


Written Question
NHS: Drugs
Friday 2nd February 2018

Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of his Department plans to respond to the remarks of the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland of 21 November 2017 made at the debate on medicines regulation, Official Report. columns 322 to 353.

Answered by Steve Brine

I responded to the hon. Member on 30 November 2017 and a copy of the letter is attached.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Jan 2018
Patient Transport Services: Northern Lincolnshire

"The hon. Gentleman is making a very good speech. The service is also a problem in the rural parts of my constituency. Old people are now refusing to go to hospital appointments because they are worried about whether they can get there and get back, because the transport is so …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Nov 2017
Medicines Regulation

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the future of medicines regulation.

What a pleasure it is to see you in the Chair, Mr Davies. I am very pleased that you have been elevated to the Panel of Chairs. Yesterday, the European Parliament agreed to move the European …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Nov 2017
Medicines Regulation

"In one sentence, my hon. Friend gets to the nub of the issue; I will probably take 20 minutes to reach it. He is absolutely right. The problem is that the Government did not make a plan, and as yet have not resolved how they will regulate medicines from 1 …..."
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