Speeches by Cooper.

“I thank my hon. Friend for that excellent point and agree absolutely. In our society, we focus on how people look for many reasons, cultural and commercial, but this is purely about health. This is about keeping people healthy on the inside and allowing them to live good quality lives. My hon. Friend is absolutely righ…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that excellent intervention. She is absolutely right. With her public health expertise, she highlights the very real problems that lead to fatty liver disease: our broken food system, the issue with access to good, nutritious food for children in school, and the need to ensure that our stark …”

“Thank you, Mr Efford, for chairing the debate this morning. I thank the Minister for her excellent remarks, and all the parliamentary colleagues who have taken the time to be here. I thank the British Liver Trust and everybody who came to hear the debate. I hope they found it edifying and useful. I have no particular f…”

“I thank the hon. Member for making that excellent point. He is absolutely right. The issues of the NHS waiting lists are pertinent and stark. Reducing them will mean that we have to get the left shift right as well as invest in acute services. Our policies have failed the population for decades. This debate is an oppor…”

“Rehabilitation is a vital part of prison health programmes, but when prisoners develop infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, they can be isolated from organised programmes such as rehab. Given the risk that interrupted TB treatment can fuel antimicrobial resistance, what steps is the Department taking to ensure tha…”

“This devolution debate today is a continuation of the conversation that has been doing the rounds in Sussex since the announcement that we will be in the first wave of new regions to begin the devolution process. The Bill will allow us to unlock resources at a regional level and to use them to best serve the needs of o…”

“Going back to health system strengthening, it is the perennial conversation of everybody in international health. Health system strengthening basically is the pandemic preparedness baseline, it is non-communicable diseases baseline; it is everything. For us in the Global North, I wonder what the conversations are aroun…”

“Looking at global health and security as well as specifically at AMR through the global health and security APPG and the AMR APPG, we have been discussing with the Cabinet Office the National Security Strategy and where AMR fits into that particular approach. Baroness Chapman, from an FCDO point of view, how do you see…”

“Will that continue to happen?”

“Data has been amassed and surveillance systems have been strengthened through the Fleming Fund. Will the funding for that data amalgamation, collection, surveillance-strengthening and fortification continue elsewhere or will that funding not continue and we will simply take what we have learnt and change into a differe…”

“Thank you, Chair. It is good to hear that AMR—antimicrobial resistance—is at the top of your agenda; or I suppose not good, but it is a necessity. Can we please hear about the closure of the Fleming Fund? I know that you know that it has been central for global efforts to build lab capacity, enable data sharing and str…”

“To be fair, vaccines are also part of the preventative package, so my question is—I absolutely hear you about diagnostics: I chair the APPG on AMR—where in that strategic package of prevention, and perhaps this is a WHO question, are we considering diagnostics? Are we considering diagnostics as part of a preventative m…”

“—have qualified—”

“Sorry, Minister, when you said “committed to doing” you are committed to making sure that the Global South—”

“Going back to health system strengthening, it is the perennial conversation of everybody in international health. Health system strengthening basically is the pandemic preparedness baseline, it is non-communicable diseases baseline; it is everything. For us in the Global North, I wonder what the conversations are aroun…”

“Looking at global health and security as well as specifically at AMR through the global health and security APPG and the AMR APPG, we have been discussing with the Cabinet Office the National Security Strategy and where AMR fits into that particular approach. Baroness Chapman, from an FCDO point of view, how do you see…”

“Will that continue to happen?”

“Data has been amassed and surveillance systems have been strengthened through the Fleming Fund. Will the funding for that data amalgamation, collection, surveillance-strengthening and fortification continue elsewhere or will that funding not continue and we will simply take what we have learnt and change into a differe…”

“Thank you, Chair. It is good to hear that AMR—antimicrobial resistance—is at the top of your agenda; or I suppose not good, but it is a necessity. Can we please hear about the closure of the Fleming Fund? I know that you know that it has been central for global efforts to build lab capacity, enable data sharing and str…”

“To be fair, vaccines are also part of the preventative package, so my question is—I absolutely hear you about diagnostics: I chair the APPG on AMR—where in that strategic package of prevention, and perhaps this is a WHO question, are we considering diagnostics? Are we considering diagnostics as part of a preventative m…”