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“You led exactly to my question about other disease areas that will or may become more prevalent in Europe, including dengue, chikungunya and others. How well prepared do you think we are in the UK to identify, contain and treat these areas?”

“What can the UK do with lower-income countries? We talked about Gavi in the previous section. What can we do to support lower-income countries to stop HIV transmissions? What are we not doing at the moment that we should be doing more of?”

“I congratulate the hon. Member on securing the debate. From the first day we met we have talked about getting this debate, so I am very pleased that it is happening. I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on pharmacy. Does she agree that community pharmacies have a huge amount of potential to support patie…”

“Thanks for your contribution so far. Professor Lalloo, within the space of my lifetime, 40 years, we have gone from discovering a disease that we did not understand at all to effectively having an amazing path to no new transmissions by 2030. That is an astonishing achievement, and in this country we are world leaders …”

“You mentioned some of the injectables, and I assume that those are some of the new treatments you were talking about.”

“Is it right that CAB-LA is not being brought into the NHS?”

“CAB-LA, which is one of the drugs that is not being used—”

“Let us move on to Lenacapavir, and then we will bring it together on both of those. How fast do you think that that will come to market? I think it is still in trials.”

“Would you characterise them as vaccines or are they injectable medicines?”

“But the main benefit of these is that you have to inject them far less often than taking a pill.”

“Would you characterise them as quite important tools to get to zero transmission, whether by 2030 or whenever?”

“Technology is often the answer.”

“Opt-out testing has been quite an important tool as well. That has been rolled out. It was started under the previous Government and rolled out under this Government to 91 A&Es. Do you think that is quite an important tool as well?”

“Before I move on to a couple of questions about the global position, you said that 2030 is just not possible. What do you think are the main barriers to that? What extra do you think we might need to meet either that date or earlier?”

“I welcome the huge opportunity in the White Paper for cities such as Exeter, which is also held back by Tory-run Devon county council—the upper-tier authority. Can the Minister confirm that devolution and reorganisation will work hand in hand to help Exeter, a key economic growth city, to retain, enhance and expand its…”

“Thank you very much for your chairmanship of the debate, Mr Pritchard. I thank the Minister for his responses. I restate my thanks to Lord Hendy for the engagement we have had from him so far and for the improvements that he appears to have delivered in the medium term, which have been communicated to us. I am grateful…”

“I absolutely agree that for many people in the lowest-paid jobs or who work night shifts, the lack of transport over the Christmas holidays and at regular times is a real challenge. Research commissioned by the Rail Delivery Group shows that the rail industry generated £1.1 billion in economic, environmental and social…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the future of rail services in Devon. I am delighted to have secured my first Westminster Hall debate, and it is an honour to speak under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I welcome the Minister to his place. I will start by setting out why rail services in Devon are of the …”

“I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. I agree that what we need across Devon is to look at all these shovel-ready projects from business case onwards, to work out what will deliver the most economic value for our region and to support the mission to get economic growth going. Connecting Okehampton to Tavistock…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. The point about significant rail investment elsewhere in the country, which I will come on to, has an impact on how we see it and how we should be fighting for a better railway system in Devon.”