Speeches by Moran.

“You are not clinicians, so I fully understand that. Just to go back to the research side of it, they will not be able to fund everything all the time. Of the many innovations, of which you have already listed a number, what are the ones you would bet on? If the NHS was to have any extra money in this space, where would…”

“The focus of the Committee’s report in the last session was on future cancer. The theme that we have been speaking about today is future innovations, and it is very exciting. When we get to the nub of this, it would seem that getting some of the basics right is going to make a massive difference. You are both nodding y…”

“Dr Torode, do you have anything to add?”

“That is helpful. Yes, cancer rates have improved certainly recently, but we also know that the UK is behind a number of other comparable countries. What are they doing differently?”

“Will £70 million for new radiotherapy machines make a dent—that is the question I am really asking—given that many of them are old? What in this detection space will be needed to shift the dial, as opposed to tinkering around the edges, in terms of funding? Is that a question you feel able to answer?”

“I was heartened to hear from the Department that it is intending to bring back a cancer plan. That is good news. I hear from both of you themes around detection. Can we focus on that just for a moment? I think £70 million has been earmarked for new radiotherapy machines. Off the top of your head, do you know how much a…”

“Thank you. Professor Patel.”

“Thank you very much. Thank you very much, both of you, for being here today. I will be focusing, as you might imagine, a little bit on the here and now and how we can get the NHS to really embrace these innovations. Perhaps I could start with a relatively broad question to both of you. From where you sit, what are the …”

“Thank you.”

“Is it not the case that the review itself was drawn very narrowly, focusing just on Gaza, and did not look at the west bank? We know that there are violations and other issues in the west bank, and that they are getting worse and worse. Will the Government consider increasing the scope of their review to include the we…”

“Does the Minister agree that it is not just the big schemes that need consideration, but the small ones too? Elite capture can happen at higher education and infrastructure level. Peking University HSBC business school in Oxford wants to expand. The local planning authority narrowly passed the proposal. I asked the pre…”

“Of the 42 councils across the country that have increased social homes, four are in Oxfordshire. South Oxfordshire district council has doubled the number of social homes it has delivered over the last 10 years. Meanwhile, Oxford city council next door has halved its number. There are district councils that are doing i…”

“My hon. Friend makes a powerful point about international law. Does he agree that the judgment that we all need to look at is the ICJ advisory opinion on the occupation? The Government are working through the process of understanding what it means—including, potentially, in respect of banning illegal settlement goods—b…”

“That Bill is really important; I have tabled a similar Bill every single year that I have been in Parliament. One thing I find remarkable about certain speeches from Members in this debate is that Palestinian voices seem to be rather missing, forgotten or, in this case, erased. Will the hon. Gentleman look at what has …”

“My hon. Friend is entirely right that, within Palestine, recognition is seen as a prerequisite for what might come next. It is not a replacement and is not top-down. That is deeply felt—in fact, it was promised to the Palestinian people when my great-grandfather was alive. Does my hon. Friend also recognise that, along…”

“The Minister has moved on to the “how”, but I wonder whether it is worth reflecting for slightly longer on the “why”. With my Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee hat on, I wonder whether he noted that the chief medical officer’s annual report last year on an ageing society mentioned cycling 13 times, in the c…”

“I am grateful to my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour for giving way, and I congratulate him on securing this debate. He talked about connecting villages. In Oxford West and Abingdon we have Botley and Eynsham, which are both growing in population, but whenever designs are put forward, they are often missing the p…”

“I congratulate my friend, the hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams), on securing this important debate. Keith, a constituent of mine, is a member of My Life My Choice, a self-advocacy group in Oxfordshire. Its job is to bring the voices of disabled people to MPs and into Parliament, so that they…”

“These are conversations that I want to keep happening, but I say to those who are making the argument about the process and asking how we can make that better, what does a Bill that addresses assisted dying that they might vote for look like? If the answer is that there is none, let us be honest about that. I want to e…”

“There needs to be a debate around palliative care. My concern is that we have not had any firm commitments from Government, other than woolly words, about how they are actually going to tackle the issue, and that a royal commission will push it into the long grass. I say to the Secretary of State for Health and Social …”