Speeches by Streeting.

“My Department has received £26 billion thanks to the decision taken by the Chancellor on employer’s national insurance contributions. I am taking into account the wide range of pressures that we inherited in health and social care when making allocations right across health and social care. You cannot on one hand say, …”

“Even without having spelled out the financial allocations for different parts of health and social care, it is obviously the case that the amount of money given to the Department of Health and Social Care dwarfs employer national insurance contributions from the health and social care sectors. It is perfectly legitimat…”

“I would say two things in response to that. First, I do not accept those figures, on the basis that I have not set out funding allocations for the year ahead, so we will not know the net impact one way or the other until I have done that. Secondly, we would not have £26 billion for the Department of Health and Social C…”

“It means we are setting out how we will go about building the 10-year plan in the new year.”

“Exactly, into the NHS. That will make a real difference and we have to build a proper career progression. Not every care professional is going to end their career being the Deputy Prime Minister, like Angela Rayner, but I would like every care professional in this country to have the same status and regard that the Dep…”

“I would say two things in response. First, on what we walked into on Dilnot, even if the money had been there, which it wasn’t in common with many of things, the system wasn’t even operationally ready for the timetable set out by the previous Government. Even if it was just a case of spending the money that was there i…”

“Yes. I am the Secretary of State for social care, not just the Secretary of State for health, and I would say first, just in overall terms, there is no solution to the crisis in the NHS that does not also involve a solution in social care. The second thing is that social care is important in and of itself, whether it i…”

“That is an interesting question, and exactly the sort of debate we should get into through the 10-year-plan process as well. I have a particular perspective to bring to bear on this, as a former cabinet member for public health, and I will probably bring in Tom, if he wants to, as a very recent chief executive of a cit…”

“The consequence of the under-capitalisation of the system that Darzi described in his report is that right across the NHS estate we see real challenges. Hospitals have been put in the spotlight because of the new hospitals programme and the promises made by previous Governments. If I think about the primary care estate…”

“First, I really welcome this Committee’s inquiry because it will speak directly to the anxiety I feel about what it is going to look like if we don’t do anything. It will be continued mismanaged decline and rising demand. Demand for publicly funded social care is estimated to rise by 43% between 2018 and 2038, just on …”

“You really are in a Christmas special now. Thank you for the temptation, Andrew. I am not going to set out financial allocations at this stage. When we do shortly, I think people will see that we are already beginning to walk the talk in the shift that we want to see. That is the right thing to do, both in terms of cur…”

“As the report into the failures of the Tavistock clinic shows, a whole range of individuals and organisations did not discharge their duty of care appropriately to an extremely vulnerable group of children and young people. I pay tribute to the whistleblowers of the Tavistock and Portman who laid their careers on the l…”

“Any young person in Great Britain and Northern Ireland who had a valid prescription for these medicines in the six months prior to 3 June and 27 August respectively can seek continuation of their prescription from a UK-registered clinician. Guidance has been issued to general practitioners setting out prescribing scena…”

“As I say, any young person in Great Britain and Northern Ireland who had a valid prescription for these medicines in the six months prior to 3 June and 27 August respectively can seek continuation of their prescription from a UK-registered clinician. More broadly, it is my intention to ensure we start bringing down tho…”

“I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her question. We are trying to proceed at pace with the clinical trial. I share the urgency that she brings to her question. I have had to temper my own urgency with the need to make sure that the clinical trial that is established is as robust and ethically sound as, if not more rob…”

“I thank the hon. Member for her question. On the cases of young people who have been on a gender identity pathway and later regret those interventions, whatever those interventions may have been, they are small in number, but they are addressed in the Cass review. It is important that we do not lose sight of those youn…”

“I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. This lies at the heart of the dilemma that has plagued clinical leaders and political leaders, particularly since the scandal at the Tavistock clinic was brought into the public eye. There are many people in our country—young people, and young and older adults—who will …”

“I thank the hon. Member for her question. In case she worries that she is going soft on the Government—or, worse still, in case I worry that I agree with her—we should just remind each other that even a stopped clock is right twice a day. For those watching our proceedings this afternoon, it is true to say that politic…”

“I can certainly give my hon. Friend that assurance. We want all trans people, in fact all people in our country, to receive timely access to safe and effective healthcare. We want to improve services for trans people specifically, because we recognise the extent to which they have been let down. I emphasise that young …”

“I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he said. These issues weigh heavily on my conscience. On what he says about the safety and efficacy of puberty blockers, the simple fact is that we just do not know enough. That is why building the evidence base and research is important. I want to ensure that young people w…”