Speeches by Streeting.

“Throughout the process, but I can report back to you in more detail down the line.”

“We have certainly seen a debate since I was asked a question on Laura Kuenssberg’s programme about this issue, and it is a welcome one.”

“Let’s look at some of the things that have been said and written since my comments. The total number of antidepressants prescribed in England increased by 36% between 2016 and 2023, with a concomitant 23% increase in the number of patients receiving antidepressants over that period. The BBC “Panorama” investigation fou…”

“That work is already well under way, as Jim Mackey has reported, and plans will be submitted and considered on their merits and viability. I have been very clear, right back to the NHS Providers’ speech that I gave towards the tail end of last year. We want ICBs to focus much more on strategic commissioning and making …”

“We are at the beginning of the process now, but in terms of what the impact of the changes will be, that will depend very much on how we constitute the new organisation and what it looks like.”

“I will say two things about this. One is that with the level of capital underinvestment, which was identified very starkly in the Darzi Report, I constantly feel pressure from parliamentarians, who are constantly under pressure from their constituents about not only the new hospital’s programme but the crumbling hospit…”

“I think I said OHID had been abolished, and it was the other way around.”

“It was about reducing duplication and inefficiency, bringing the NHS under financial control and making sure that we have the right spend in the right places, which is closer to the frontline.”

“I do not want to set any new hares running.”

“I am doing my best to put you off hanging any more things on this Bill, and I am worried I am already failing.”

“If you had asked me when I was appointed Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary a few years ago, “What are your thoughts on where social care should sit? Should it be folded into the NHS and have a national health and care service? Should it remain primarily with local government?” I think I would have said I was open…”

“Yes.”

“I think that those numbers on prescriptions of antidepressants should be cause for concern.”

“I welcome further debate on this, but I absolutely stand by what I said on the BBC to Laura Kuenssberg. I appreciate that I sometimes suffer with the affliction of answering direct questions honestly, and that is what I did on Laura Kuenssberg, based on the concerns that clinicians and lots of families have put to me a…”

“I certainly expect any board of any ICB in the country to have people with skills, experience, knowledge and insight of the breadth of the system that they are responsible for leading.”

“No. I totally understand why, and not just on dementia but on a number of other fronts, we had voices particularly from the voluntary and community sector saying, “Well, hang on a minute, something that we care about has not appeared in the planning guidance”. I genuinely think that one of the problems that we have had…”

“Certainly the draft, yes, but it is not only subject to internal kicking of the tyres; I also need to take it to colleagues across government, not least the Prime Minister, to make sure that they are happy with it. Yes, I am very clear about where we are going with the 10-year health plan.”

“Yes, we are looking at palliative and end-of-life care in the context of the 10-year plan.”

“You are tempting me to preannounce the 10-year plan. We want to see improvements in the quality of palliative care. Regardless of the different positions we might have as parliamentarians around this Committee about the merits of assisted dying, it has certainly generated a broader national conversation about palliativ…”

“This is one of many areas where we need to take the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS.”