Speeches by Smyth.

“As my kids would say, that is a bit boomer, but I take the point. My hon. Friend is a tireless campaigner for Northwick Park and his constituents, and he has long campaigned for the improvement of cancer services. Any reconfiguration or change to services needs to be clinically led by local decision makers, following e…”

“Thanks to our investment and modernisation of the NHS, the Government are putting cancer services on the road to recovery by opening up community diagnostic centres on evenings and weekends, building new surgical hubs and investing in new radiotherapy machines. We are diagnosing cancer faster and treating it sooner. Th…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Mundell. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (Peter Swallow) on securing this important debate. He has made absolutely sure that the voice of Bracknell Forest is heard loud and clear, both here and at the Department of Health and So…”

“I will get through all the points, if I can, because I know there are lots of issues to address. As I was about to say, too many people are still waiting, but we are committed to working with the Welsh Government to keep the cross-border arrangements fair, transparent and patient-centred. Patients also face challenges …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick) for securing this important debate. I knew that hon. Members from across the United Kingdom would come here for it, and so it has proved. There are no end of technicalities that …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing West (Dr Cooper) on securing the debate. We have veered quite a long way into the public health arena in the last while, but that demonstrates how important it is. I pay tribute to the expertise that my h…”

“My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The pride in place programme does just as it says on the tin, and it is important. The Government’s drive is to make sure that those communities, which know best what they need, are the drivers of how that is done. We will think laterally and bring together all that they know about w…”

“I do not have those numbers to hand but, as we outlined in the 10-year health plan, we are particularly committed to people in rural and coastal communities with regard to workforce and access to many other services. If there is anything specific the hon. Gentleman is not aware of, I am happy to furnish him with more i…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank the hon. Member for Wokingham (Clive Jones) for securing the debate, and for getting through it—I hope he is well. I thank other hon. Members for their contributions. As others have noted, I am aware of the work that the hon. Gentleman has done, usin…”

“We should say that there are a lot of good people doing good work out there. You have heard from some of them; they want good standards because they do not want their industry to have this bad reputation. They want high standards and they do not want to be in competition with people who are cowboys, have low standards,…”

“Those are absolutely parts of the discussion which is why we cannot do something today. That is why we want to be realistic with the Committee and the public and the industry and local authorities and talk closely with them about this. Clearly we are in conversation with them all in advance of the announcement, which i…”

“Yes, which is why, as I said to Ms Niblett, we absolutely do recognise how important many of these businesses are, so we will have to balance that transition period coming forward. As I said, many of these industries are already paying for training their staff and are in well maintained premises and so they want to mak…”

“Yes, we are. Part of that was in the summer and actually the response and interest from the media was fantastic and I commend it. Largely, young female journalists have really taken this on because they can see what is happening in their own social media feeds and so on, and they have pursued some stories on behalf of …”

“I cannot add anything to what I have already said on that: we are working at pace to make sure that we get this right and we intend to have that out so that people can be clear what that looks like. In the meantime, we all need to make sure that we do as much as we can to raise awareness. This inquiry has raised a lot …”

“We need to get to a state of being very clear what procedures we are talking about at different times. With the high-risk areas, once we get through that then they would be subject to the usual procedures about if something goes wrong. I am struggling a bit with what is behind that question in terms of recompense. We h…”

“I absolutely understand where the question is coming from, the need to educate the public about some of these risks and the horrors that we have seen, including deaths, and perhaps we will come on to this. But we need to get this right, and I am happy to bring in Aidan on some technicalities about what you ban and what…”

“First, can I say, Chair, thank you for inviting us? We made a really big announcement in August and I know it has been widely welcomed and there are a lot of questions to ask. It is complex—as I know your Committee has explored—and we are very pleased to be able to come today to share some of that, but also to hear fro…”

“It is a really important point, and officials working very closely with colleagues in Scotland has been really helpful in advance of us making the announcement back in August. Gavin might want to say a bit more about this, but it has been really helpful to share that and to work well together on that. Clearly health is…”

“That will also be true of some products themselves subject to what we are becoming accustomed to with regard to our role outside the European Union, and the need to work across an internal market in the United Kingdom.”

“We will need to work with the industry. We recognise, and we say in all our comms and messaging, that this is a largely female industry largely for women and is an important part of our economy, particularly in local communities and constituencies. They want to work with us and we recognise that. Obviously many of them…”