Speeches by Coleman.

“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…”

“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…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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?”

“There was no particular straw that broke the camel’s back for you, though?”

“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…”

“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?”

“Sir Chris, who is leading this? It is a big change programme. Who is leading it in the DHSE? Is it you?”

“You are not intending to throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

“It is just Ben Coleman, Madam Deputy Speaker, but thank you for the honorific. I am very grateful to the Minister for his statement, and for the further measures he is taking to support the shamefully treated victims of the Horizon scandal. I also thank him for saving our beloved post office on the King’s Road in Chels…”

“May I echo the thanks to the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister for the calm and effective way that they are dealing with the United States? Unlike some of the frivolous comments we have heard from Conservative Members, does my right hon. Friend agree that the US’s 20% tariff on EU goods is to be deeply regrette…”

“When you say that you have no difficulties, one understands that GPs are relatively uninformed about this, although some GPs are excellent.”

“We have had some interesting responses. I would like to ask this to Professor Bowden-Jones, and perhaps bring in the other two panellists. NHS England has been appointed the commissioner of treatment services, but it is being abolished. There is also a huge role for public health at a local authority level with gamblin…”