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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
NHS and Social Care Funding

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
NHS and Social Care Funding

"Will the Secretary of State give way to a Welshman?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
NHS and Social Care Funding

"The Secretary of State has sowed confusion in the House and in the country on this question this week, and he is doing so again today. If he is saying the same as my friend the former Health Minister in Wales—that we want to divert people who do not need …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Jan 2017
Mental Health and NHS Performance

"The Secretary of State could not resist making his customary political attack on the Welsh NHS. This weekend, I had cause to visit my local hospital A&E department with a family member, and we received a brilliant, speedy and expert service. Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating …..."
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Written Question
Department of Health: Tobacco
Monday 20th July 2015

Asked by: Owen Smith (Labour - Pontypridd)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department met employees or third party representatives of tobacco companies in (i) 2013, (ii) 2014 and (iii) 2015 to date.

Answered by Jane Ellison

None. Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the Gov.UK website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-overseas-travel-and-meetings

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2011
Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill

"In the event where there is not an emergency, will the Minister confirm that under the new provisions the Secretary of State will not have the power, as he has, to direct a commissioning group to do what he thinks is appropriate for the people in that area?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2011
Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill

"I am grateful to the Minister for his contribution. Questions about the Bill just keep coming. That is how I feel on rising to speak. We have had eight months of debate on it. So far, more than 1,500 amendments have been tabled and we have learned today that more …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2011
Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill

"One needs to look at the top of institutions in this country—at the Government, and the extent to which Governments of all stripes choose what they are going to reveal to the public and what they deem not to be in the public interest. That standard is set and applied …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2011
Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill

"No, I am trying to make a point about what the Minister said at the Dispatch Box not five minutes ago, which was that CCGs must meet in public. I am pointing out that that is not accurate. They do not always have to meet in public; they may choose …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2011
Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill

"I am grateful to the Minister for that further intervention, just as I assume that he is grateful for the intervention of the civil servants in the Box, who must have passed him a note. Clearly, he was not aware of that earlier. When he said that CCGs must meet …..."
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