Health and Social Care Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Health and Social Care

Tonia Antoniazzi Excerpts
Tuesday 7th September 2021

(2 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Yes. I thank my hon. Friend for everything he does for local government. Of course we will make sure that we bring forward the White Paper, which will show how we intend to join up healthcare and local government in a way that they have not been since the foundation of the NHS more than 70 years ago.

Tonia Antoniazzi Portrait Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower) (Lab)
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The Prime Minister is behaving like Father Christmas; he does not know what he has not delivered in government for the last 11 years. In this House last night, we had cross-party consensus on covering the costs of medicinal cannabis. So while Father Christmas is at the Dispatch Box, can he deliver on a Government promise to immediately set up a fund to pay for prescriptions for medical cannabis for children with intractable epilepsy?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I thank the hon. Lady. The prescriptions that she asks for are actually already provided for on the basis of clinical advice.