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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2016
NHS Funding

"Can the Secretary of State guarantee that every A&E department in north-east London, with a rapidly rising population, will remain open for the rest of this Parliament? If he cannot guarantee that, how many will close and which ones? What is his hit list?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"On the behaviour part of the question, what can the Minister do to combat what seems to be an emerging picture of over-consumption of painkillers and to enforce NICE guidelines on their use?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Apr 2016
Junior Doctors Contracts

"On the basis of the Secretary of State’s previous comments, and particularly his opening comments, is he absolutely confident that he has the legal power to impose the new contract?..."
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Written Question
Department of Health: Meetings
Tuesday 1st March 2016

Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings he or other Ministers of his Department have had with representatives of Care UK, BUPA, Virgin Care, The Practice, United Health/Optum, Serco, Nestor Primecare, General Healthcare (BMI Netcare), Spire/Classic, HCA International, Ramsay and Capio in each month of (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014, (f) 2015 and (g) 2016 to date.

Answered by Ben Gummer

Information regarding all meetings between Departmental Ministers and external organisations is included in the Transparency Data, published quarterly. This can be accessed at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-of-health&publication_type=transparency-data.

Written Question
British Medical Association
Tuesday 1st March 2016

Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings he or other Ministers of his Department have had with representatives of the British Medical Association in each month of (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014, (f) 2015 and (g) 2016 to date.

Answered by Ben Gummer

External meetings between the Secretary of State for Health and other Health Ministers are published quarterly on the Department’s website here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-of-health&publication_type=transparency-data

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Oct 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"It is widely known that there is a serious lack of doctors who want to go into general practice. At the same time, the Secretary of State is guilty of an abject failure to engage with the British Medical Association in negotiations on junior doctors’ practices. On that basis, how …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Nov 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"If plain packaging were introduced, what assessment has there been on whether that will make life easier or more difficult for the counterfeiters?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 21 Oct 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Are not certain CCGs starting to merge decision-making processes, meaning that some important strategic decisions are removed even further from local communities and there is therefore a complete lack of accountability?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Sep 2014
Wanstead Hospital

"I wish to thank Mr Speaker for granting this debate on the closure of Wanstead hospital in Redbridge in north-east London in my constituency.

Wanstead hospital has not existed as a full general hospital since it closed in 1986. It is where my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Feb 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"On the issue of widening education, could the Minister encourage her colleagues at the Department for Education to write to schools to raise awareness of this abhorrent practice?..."
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