Speeches by Streeting.

“We are currently doing financial planning with the system, as we speak, as part of the medium-term planning framework. We are getting returns from across the system back now, which will help to inform where we are on investment in dentistry. And when Jim next comes back to the Committee—because Sam and I did not make t…”

“You are absolutely right to draw a distinction—and we do—between mental illness, autism and ADHD. They are different sets of conditions, although we are increasingly seeing a relationship between them, not least because of unmet need or late diagnosis. It is not uncommon, for example, for people who have struggled to a…”

“The right hon. Member is right that we need that data linkage study. That will happen, but it will not produce the same evidence base as a clinical trial, and that is the distinction between the two. It is frankly a disgrace that people have sought to withhold that kind of data and it is really important that we get th…”

“No, it is definitely not the end. This is part of it. What I want to see is consistent improvement in the quality and availability of NHS dentistry over time. We are starting from such a low bar. On our manifesto commitment to deliver 700,000 urgent emergency dentistry appointments, money has been available. ICBs have …”

“I would like to make sure that, were Parliament minded to proceed with the Bill and see it through to completion and on to the statute book, we have high-quality palliative and end-of-life care services, so that there is a real choice and no one feels compelled to take up an assisted death through the absence of pallia…”

“I think you ask a fair set of questions and we will go away, look at that in detail and come back to you.”

“I will try to do that, Madam Deputy Speaker. We will ensure that young people get good access to wider evidence-led support. I have had to wrestle with the fact that some trans people enter adulthood without ever receiving any sort of healthcare, and I have been heavily criticised by those people in particular for some…”

“Yes. If you are a mother who has suffered birth trauma and injury, it is quite likely that as well as treatment for the physical scars you bear, you need therapeutic support. It shouldn’t feel like you are accessing different NHSs, or different parts of the NHS. We have to join up services.”

“And we have got the new MMRV vaccine, which means that from January the MMR vaccine will include chicken pox for the first time. There are lots of positive developments, and that could also point to why there are savings if, for example, you have more conditions confined to a single dose. I will go and kick the tyres o…”

“Let me go away with Ashley Dalton and kick the tyres on all of that. On one hand, particularly when you spell it out not in percentage terms but in actual spend terms, that says to me that we need to take a good look. I would expect that across a whole range of areas, with the emphasis we are putting on productivity an…”

“The Government is neutral on this.”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for the way that she asks her question, as a critic of some of the decisions that I have taken in this space. The reassurance that I can offer is that the study will look at the holistic care that this group of children and young people receives, and ensure that wider evidence-led thera…”

“The study includes a lot of research around wider therapeutic support and interventions, including mental health support. We are rolling out more clinics and services across the country to bring that care closer to home.”

“Regardless of whether it is in the medium-term planning framework, we need to give this the specific focus it requires and make sure that we have got resourcing. For example, we have seen a 45% decrease in health visiting numbers over the best part of a decade. Those sorts of things do have an impact. To make sure that…”

“That is a decision for Parliament.”

“On that, Danny, to put all those positive numbers in context, we are not back to where we were in terms of pre-pandemic levels. That is the initial bar we have to set ourselves. I report progress without wanting to sound defensive or complacent, because your central challenge is absolutely the right one.”

“If we take where we have been ahead of this winter, we have delivered over 17 million flu vaccines for this season, which is 170,000 more than this time last year; 60,000 more NHS staff than last year are getting their jab; and we are on track to deliver the 5 percentage point increase in flu vaccine uptake in healthca…”

“There is going to be a cultural challenge there. One BMA representative I spoke to in the context of the additional specialty places said, “Look, we want to know where these places are. What we don’t want is loads more geriatricians in north Wales.” Notwithstanding the fact that I am responsible for the NHS in England,…”

“Well, it is a mixed picture on vaccination.”

“The capital investment isn’t. That is the distinction. We want to make sure that, from a patient point of view, there is increasingly less of a distinction between your physical health services and your mental health services where the two interact and relate together. I am always struck when meeting patients who may h…”