Speeches by Streeting.

“Nope. We are not going to cut—”

“We will respond to your report and keep it in mind as we are modernising our approach to mental health services. I do think it is somewhat of an indictment of how the money has been used that although we have put more money into mental health services, we have not seen an improvement in outcomes. You are right as a Com…”

“When the Treasury made their allocation to my Department in the spending review, they took into account VPAG costs. So if the costs arrive within that envelope, we are absolutely fine. If we are without that envelope, both within my Department and across Government, we manage that in the usual way.”

“Yes please, permanent secretary, save me from this line of questioning.”

“Well, we don’t know what the cost is going to be.”

“Since coming into office, we have increased mental health investment. In fact, investment in mental health care has increased by an extra £688 million this year, which has enabled us to hire 8,500 more mental health workers, deliver more talking therapies and roll out more mental health support in schools, as we set ou…”

“Well, the bill is not clear. It is extremely complicated. On the way that VPAG works and the way in which the rebate is calculated, companies have to pay the Government a rebate, which is a proportion of their sales with the revenue distributed to the NHS across the UK. With the newer medicines, the rebate rate is set …”

“In 2026.”

“I would like to make sure that, were Parliament minded to proceed with the Bill and see it through to completion and on to the statute book, we have high-quality palliative and end-of-life care services, so that there is a real choice and no one feels compelled to take up an assisted death through the absence of pallia…”

“When it was published—I was in the Chamber at the time—there was an overwhelming consensus in the House. There were some people who criticised and challenged the Cass review at the time, including some outside the House in the LGBT community. I have always supported the Cass review, which was led by one of our country’…”

“Yes and no—because this is not just my decision; it is subject to the agreement of business managers. Suffice to say we are working at pace to make sure that the Bill is ready, and certainly to make sure that we can complete the abolition of NHS England within the timetable set out by the Prime Minister.”

“The right hon. Member is right that we need that data linkage study. That will happen, but it will not produce the same evidence base as a clinical trial, and that is the distinction between the two. It is frankly a disgrace that people have sought to withhold that kind of data and it is really important that we get th…”

“The Government is neutral on this.”

“In 2026, certainly.”

“I will try to do that, Madam Deputy Speaker. We will ensure that young people get good access to wider evidence-led support. I have had to wrestle with the fact that some trans people enter adulthood without ever receiving any sort of healthcare, and I have been heavily criticised by those people in particular for some…”

“I will take the hon. Member’s question in three parts. First, the opinion polling that she mentions shows that people in this country are overwhelmingly kind, and they want to ensure that trans people, and LGBT people more broadly, are treated with kindness, compassion and inclusion. Secondly, I do not dismiss the opin…”

“No, the time has not yet come for everyone to wear masks, but we are absolutely supporting frontline leaders to determine whether, given the pressures that they are under, it is right to ask visitors to hospitals, or other NHS and care settings, to wear masks to protect themselves and others. There will be places where…”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for the way that she asks her question, as a critic of some of the decisions that I have taken in this space. The reassurance that I can offer is that the study will look at the holistic care that this group of children and young people receives, and ensure that wider evidence-led thera…”

“Part of what Stephen announced yesterday is embedding urgent care into the contract. However, I think we are realistic that contract reform will be an ongoing process. You have heard me say before that there are lots of problems in the NHS that are not about money, and that are about modernisation, getting more bang fo…”

“That is a decision for Parliament.”