Speeches by Coleman.

“Will the right hon. Member give way?”

“I am most grateful to you, Sir Jeremy. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Andrew Lewin) on calling this important debate, which I am pleased about; as Members of Parliament, it is not often that we get a chance to speak so clearly about what we do to represent our constituents’ interests and …”

“I thank the Minister for her reply and for the excellent work she has done in putting together the procurement strategy. It has been a passion of mine for many years that we do not use procurement just to get extra social value but extra economic value, which will help local firms and local growth. That is what this st…”

“7. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to assist local authorities in using public procurement to help create economic growth.”

“Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”

“I absolutely agree. We need a veterinary agreement to improve the situation in our country. I agree with the proposal to allow British bands and creatives to tour more easily and that we should have more mutual recognition of professional qualifications to support our service industries. We should be as ambitious as we…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“On that point, will the hon. Lady give way?”

“I am most grateful to the hon. Lady for her delayed response. I am struck by her lack of response to two of my colleagues. She did not acknowledge to my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith and Chiswick (Andy Slaughter) that in my constituency of Chelsea and Fulham, the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is gettin…”

“It may be helpful I correct a couple of “facts” that the hon. Lady has given. In his election literature, my predecessor as Member of Parliament for Chelsea and Fulham made the clear statement that he had secured the funds for the rebuilding and refurbishment of Charing Cross hospital. When I spoke to the chief executi…”

“Thank you; that is very helpful on palliative care. Coming back to the reform that we are talking about today, we touched on quite a lot of detail about the fact that you were pretty much opposed to doing this reform initially. On 30 January you told the Health Service Journal that you “could spend a hell of a lot of t…”

“It is good in a few places, but it is just not spread across the country the way it needs to be. You are optimistic that the 10-year plan will address that problem?”

“Do you think that will produce anything that is radically different from what we see now? Although we are better than many other countries, our palliative care is awful; it is just worse everywhere else.”

“Thank you all very much for coming in. Before we talk a little bit more about what we have just been talking about, I will throw in one thing that is much on my mind, which is about palliative care. Are we looking forward to seeing something in the 10-year plan about improving palliative care?”

“Any particular experiences? What was the straw that broke the camel’s back?”

“On the double-running point, are we going to take from Peter to pay Paul? Is secondary care going to pay for primary care while this happens, or are you going to continue to fund both while the new community approach is developed?”

“That is good to hear. I want to ask about one more thing, which is the move to community and the funding of that. It is partly to do with accountability. In the move to community, are we going to have an NHS-typical, top-down single model? Or is it going to be different, sometimes led by GPs, sometimes by ICSs or ICBs …”

“Is there some thinking about the date for the abolition?”

“Good. Do you have a target date by which NHS England is to be formally abolished?”

“Operationally?”