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Queen's speech debate on Tuesday, 24 May 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Lansley. The answering member was Patricia Hewitt.

Health and Education

Queen's speech debate (fifth day) on health and education. Amendment negatived on division (336 to 241).

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
434 c560-669 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department of Health
Department for Education and Skills
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Ben Wallace | 434 c586-8 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Swansea, East (Mrs. James), whom I congratulate on her ...
Rosie Cooper | 434 c592-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to make my maiden speech. I compliment and congratulate my hon. F...
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Jim McGovern | 434 c597-600 (Link to this contribution) As a new Member, I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me the opportunity to make my maiden ...
Lord Harper | 434 c595-7 (Link to this contribution) It is with some considerable honour and humility that I rise to make my maiden speech: honour becaus...
David Simpson | 434 c610-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Brent, South (Ms Butler) on an excellent maiden speech. She and I...
Dawn Butler | 434 c608-10 (Link to this contribution) It is with great pleasure that I rise to make my maiden speech, days after being presented to the Ho...
Jeremy Hunt | 434 c622 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the many new Members who have made their maiden contributions this evening. The hon. ...
Jeremy Hunt | 434 c622-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that compliment from the Labour Benches; I fear that that may be the end of them. ...
Diana Johnson | 434 c624-7 (Link to this contribution) Madam Deputy Speaker, I am delighted to make my maiden speech to the House on a debate about educati...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 434 c630-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech to the House. I congratulat...
Martin Horwood | 434 c627-30 (Link to this contribution) Madam Deputy Speaker, I am grateful to you for calling me to speak for the first time and I am grate...
David Mundell | 434 c632-5 (Link to this contribution) I am especially pleased to follow the hon. Member for City of Durham (Dr. Blackman-Woods). Although ...
Philip Hollobone | 434 c646-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you for calling me this evening, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is an honour to have been e...
Angela C Smith | 434 c644-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speech. I congratula...
Sian C James | 434 c583-6 (Link to this contribution) It is with great pleasure and some humility that I rise to make this, my maiden speech. I am conscio...
Baroness Featherstone | 434 c650-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech. I follow the hon. Member for...
Emily Thornberry | 434 c639-42 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to address the House for the first time on behalf of those whom I ...
Anne Milton | 434 c637-9 (Link to this contribution) My grateful thanks to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me the time to make my maiden speech tod...
Mike Penning | 434 c605-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech this evening...
Meg Hillier | 434 c612-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my first speech to the House. I am very prou...
Nick Clegg | 434 c600-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speech, which I do w...
Nick Clegg | 434 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend might have difficulty in his constituency, but we in Sheffield, Hallam organise ourse...
Speaker | 434 c583 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker has placed a 10-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches, which takes effect from now.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 434 c656-61 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady will obviously know, we have just lost an election and we have to look at all the p...
Ruth Kelly | 434 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) We have indeed had an excellent debate. First, let me welcome the hon. Member for Witney (Mr. C...
John Hayes | 434 c663 (Link to this contribution) I am reluctant to interrupt the right hon. Lady’s fascinating and lively peroration, but will she ex...
Ruth Kelly | 434 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a short memory. It was his party that closed two dental training hospitals. I...
Speaker | 434 c662 (Link to this contribution) Order. An awful lot of private conversation is going on. It is good manners to hear the Secretary of...
Ruth Kelly | 434 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend drew on her experiences from the miners strike. She focused in particular on her camp...
Lord Blencathra | 434 c664 (Link to this contribution) rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put.
Ruth Kelly | 434 c664 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had done his research before coming to the House, he would know that it takes ...
Lord Lansley | 434 c563 (Link to this contribution) I do not know what point the hon. Gentleman thinks that he is making, because many hospitals chose n...
Lord Lansley | 434 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend takes me on to the second part of what I have to say about when one goes around the c...
David Chaytor | 434 c563 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman referred to his visit to my constituency, but was not the most significant point ...
Lord Lansley | 434 c562 (Link to this contribution) It is curious that Labour Members do not want to hear about NHS staff and what they are achieving ac...
Lord Bellingham | 434 c562 (Link to this contribution) This is a proper intervention, as my hon. Friend obviously cares about the staff who work in hospita...
Lord Lansley | 434 c561-2 (Link to this contribution) Next time. There has been almost a clean sweep in the Department for Health, except for Lord Warner...
Barry Sheerman | 434 c562 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has spent eight minutes both congratulating people on their new appointments and ...
John Bercow | 434 c566 (Link to this contribution) I had the privilege of sitting on that Joint Committee. Given both the importance and the sensitivit...
Lord Lansley | 434 c566-8 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that all Opposition Members will agree with the latter point; in fact, I agree with the fo...
Brian Iddon | 434 c565 (Link to this contribution) Is not the real problem that only one drug will counteract the effects of MRSA at the moment: vancom...
Lord Lansley | 434 c565-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that there are a number of technologies, and I will give him one exampl...
Lembit Opik | 434 c566 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman also agree that another important element is access to the facilities? There...
Lord Lansley | 434 c566 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. There is a risk that the structure of the legislation will le...
Phyllis Starkey | 434 c563 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman did me the courtesy of pointing out that he visited my constituency rather than t...
Lord Lansley | 434 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) During the election campaign, the Prime Minister visited Milton Keynes hospital, where he said that ...
Betty Williams | 434 c564 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman take this opportunity to apologise publicly to patients in north Wales for t...
Lord Lansley | 434 c564-5 (Link to this contribution) People the length and breadth of the country were asking, ““Can I be safe if I go into hospital?”” C...
Louise Ellman | 434 c568 (Link to this contribution) In view of the hon. Gentleman’s remarks, will he give a firm commitment that the Opposition will sup...
Speaker | 434 c560 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposition.
Lord Lansley | 434 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, as an amendment to the Address, at end add—"‘but regret the absence of measures in th...
Martin Salter | 434 c577 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware of the dramatic improvement we have seen since the creation of the M...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) I cannot help feeling that, in the first part of his remarks, the hon. Gentleman was perhaps thinkin...
Speaker | 434 c576 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the right hon. Lady replies, perhaps I could say to the hon. Gentleman, for his advant...
Sammy Wilson | 434 c576 (Link to this contribution) I note the glowing terms in which the Secretary of State described the education policy in England. ...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c575-6 (Link to this contribution) The Bill is designed to create the legal framework rather than to specify the detail of service prov...
Julian Lewis | 434 c575 (Link to this contribution) On mental health, will the new Bill do anything to address the deficiency, which has existed for man...
Phyllis Starkey | 434 c569 (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Lansley | 434 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) No, I am finishing in a few moments. There are many other issues to which the Secretary of State sh...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c570 (Link to this contribution) I am responsible for many things, but they do not include the headlines printed in The Times. My und...
Andrew Turner | 434 c570 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned her commitment to equality of opportunity. Can she explain how a he...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) It gives me enormous pleasure to take part in this debate, which is my first as Secretary of State f...
Stephen Dorrell | 434 c570 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm that when public money is used to treat patients of the NHS thro...
Speaker | 434 c570 (Link to this contribution) Order. When someone intervenes, it is best to let them speak.
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c570-1 (Link to this contribution) The difference between the right hon. Gentleman and Labour Members is that the policies on which he ...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c571 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an enormously serious and important point and I hope that there will be ma...
John Bercow | 434 c571 (Link to this contribution) : A moment ago the Secretary of State set out a noble vision of delivering the best services for all...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c571-2 (Link to this contribution) We are bringing more independent providers into the national health service—I shall say something ab...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 434 c571 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend leaves the question of private care in the health service, will she tell...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c572 (Link to this contribution) The most important thing, and our starting point in all this, is the needs of the patients themselve...
Lynne Jones | 434 c572 (Link to this contribution) What would my right hon. Friend say to critics such as those in the Royal College of Surgeons who sa...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c572-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an issue of great concern, particularly in Leicester and Leicestershire. I hav...
Keith Vaz | 434 c572 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on her appointment to a very important portfolio? She ...
Ian Gibson | 434 c573 (Link to this contribution) Before we move on too quickly to the great successes in the health service, of which there are indee...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c573 (Link to this contribution) We certainly do have a plan for a new dental school. Of course, that is in addition to the 1,000 new...
Owen Paterson | 434 c573 (Link to this contribution) I wrote to the Secretary of State last week pointing out that the Government have a policy of buildi...
Steve Webb | 434 c578-81 (Link to this contribution) When I was returned to Parliament a couple of weeks ago, I was, naturally, itching to scrutinise the...
Julian Lewis | 434 c581 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what the hon. Gentleman said about the out-of-hours service. Does he agree that one of ...
Tim Loughton | 434 c577 (Link to this contribution) (East Worthing and Shoreham) indicated dissent.
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that the Bill will achieve nothing. He is wrong. Based on international expe...
Steve Webb | 434 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that some outrageous scare stories were put out. As was mentioned ea...
Steve Webb | 434 c581-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that what has happened was predictable, not least because the pri...
Martin Salter | 434 c582 (Link to this contribution) On the general issue of hospital-acquired infections, will the hon. Gentleman join me in condemning ...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c577 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree. That is exactly the kind of breakthrough that we need in the performance of scho...
Hywel Williams | 434 c642-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a daunting prospect to speak after a number of good maiden speeches. I have to say that my mou...
Tony Wright | 434 c648-50 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Kettering (Mr. Hollobone) on an admirable maiden speech. Listen...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 434 c656 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Selby (Mr. Grogan). Obviously, in many ways, I...
John Grogan | 434 c654-6 (Link to this contribution) There is merit in the new choose-and-book system, but I am not so sure about the targets being set, ...
Speaker | 434 c654 (Link to this contribution) Order. Conversations are breaking out among hon. Members, and I am having some difficulty hearing th...
John Grogan | 434 c653-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Lynne Featherstone), wh...
Louise Ellman | 434 c656 (Link to this contribution) I note the hon. Gentleman’s wish to provide opportunity. Can he therefore clarify his party’s positi...
Louise Ellman | 434 c635-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) on his ab...
John Denham | 434 c620-2 (Link to this contribution) I was going to make the observation that we know that expanding private sector capacity works in par...
Lord Beamish | 434 c619-20 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that that system also leads to inefficiency? In my local hospital th...
John Denham | 434 c618-9 (Link to this contribution) It has been a privilege to listen to a string of such extraordinarily good maiden speeches this even...
Gerald Howarth | 434 c618 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. We are making common cause because, as he has said, the Civil Aviation ...
Lembit Opik | 434 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) : Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that example is typical of the kind of stresses faced by genera...
Gerald Howarth | 434 c615-7 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the pleasure of following the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (...
Barry Sheerman | 434 c588-90 (Link to this contribution) The maiden speech of the hon. Member for Lancaster and Wyre (Mr. Wallace) was a fine speech. I have ...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 434 c603-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great delight to be present on a day when there have been so many sparkling maiden speeches....
Stephen Dorrell | 434 c590-2 (Link to this contribution) I begin by joining the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) in congratulating my hon. Frie...
Andrew Turner | 434 c664 (Link to this contribution) The Government have been in power for eight years. How long does it take to train an NHS dentist?
Lord Lansley | 434 c563 (Link to this contribution) I have mentioned Milton Keynes, so I shall give way to the hon. Lady.
Lord Lansley | 434 c569 (Link to this contribution) No, as I am about to finish. When the next general election is held, perhaps in four years’ time, w...
Patricia Hewitt | 434 c573-5 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will have a look at the hon. Gentleman’s letter. I will ensure that he gets a reply and ...
Lord Lansley | 434 c568 (Link to this contribution) No, we will not—[Hon. Members: ““Ah!””] There are two perfectly viable ways of proceeding: either ha...
Notes
Jim Cousins replaced by Ian Cawsey as Teller for the Noes in the Bound Volume.
Subjects
Health services Education NHS Mental health services MRSA Standards
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