Speeches by Robertson.

“Using one dataset to decide funding from one pot of money, and another for another pot of money seems quite arbitrary—or at least not joined up. If that happens within one Department, there is greater scope for it happening across different Departments—indeed, it is certain that it will. By my reading, that is what ame…”

“My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head. Although all these amendments come from a very good place, they are so obvious that they should already be happening, and are too obvious to be enshrined in some overriding duty in a Bill.”

“I will finish by talking about the use of data. Clearly, there are different uses of data when assessing where there are gaps—in this case, gaps or issues around health inequalities. Different Governments can and do use different data, and they reassess and re-evaluate the sort of data that they want to rely on; this G…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. Clause 7 says—I abbreviate: “The Secretary of State must exercise functions…with a view to ensuring that…there are sufficient people with appropriate education and training to meet the workforce needs of the health service, and…there is an effective system i…”

“But even then, within one Department, MHCLG, different data is used to assess the connectivity and remoteness, of, for example, the Isle of Wight when funding the Isle of Wight council and the way it delivers adult social care and children’s services. I have yet to find a logical explanation why the remoteness of the i…”

“A parent cannot consent to their child engaging in sexual activity and soon they will not be able to consent to their child having a social media account, so why does the Secretary of State think that a parent should consent to drugs being administered to their child to supress their puberty and alter their sexual deve…”

“HB44 Chris Byrne MBA”

“HB43 Huntington’s Disease Association”

“HB42 Heidi”

“Written evidence reported to the House”

“HB59 Simon Adams, Chair of Healthwatch Worcestershire”

“Adjourned till Tuesday 23 June at twenty-five minutes past Nine o’clock.”

“While I welcome the aims and what the Minister has said, I caution against excessive optimism in this place that simply doing away with NHS England will naturally give rise to savings and reduce doubling up of jobs and slightly unfathomable decision making. I will also take this opportunity to say that some of the inst…”

“HB60 SpaMedica Ltd”

“In my own NHS trust—the hon. Member for Winchester referred to Hampshire and Isle of Wight—there appear to be 800 jobs under threat, yet I have seen correspondence in which an existing provider of electronic records offers what appears to be a £1.2 million saving by rolling out the record system they already use to oth…”

“I will give a couple of anecdotal examples. Bureaucracy and waste were unfortunately in the system long before NHS England came about, and they are worse in some parts of the NHS than others. General practitioners and GP practices are not part of the formal structure of the NHS, but deliver healthcare free at the point…”

“In another speech, made by another politician in another way and in another place, cutting bureaucracy might also be described as cutting costs. Where the money saved from cutting that bureaucracy management is spent and directed is fundamental. My right hon. Friend the Member for Melton and Syston set out that there s…”

“In terms of accountability, the intention behind setting up NHS England was to try and take the politics out of delivering health and out of operational decision making. The concern is that the reverse will happen if we get rid of it; we may layer in extra politics around it. At the end of the day, the responsibility f…”

“My namesake the hon. Member for Lichfield made some persuasive arguments about democratic accountability, from the Minister straight through to the operation and delivery of services without the bureaucracy of NHS England. I do not seek to disagree with his comments about where we go from here, but NHS England has not …”

“I plainly agree with those laudable aims and I am sure that, without NHS England, there will be opportunities to achieve all of those things in the future. However, they are not inevitable; it is not inevitable that three, five or 10 years down the line we will not be back in a situation of bureaucracy and complexity, …”