Danny Chambers MP: speeches

Speeches

• 3 Sept 2024 · Energy Bills: Support for Households · Hansard source

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  6. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help support households with energy bills.

• 29 Jul 2024 · Public Spending: Inheritance · Hansard source

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  Congratulations on your recent election, Madam Deputy Speaker. My training as a veterinary surgeon and my work in public health programmes around the world have taught me that it is always more cost-effective to keep people healthy rather than treat them when they get sick. Our hospital in Winchester is a good example, as 20% of people in the A&E department are there because they cannot get a GP appointment. People are there with tooth abscesses because they cannot get dentist appointments, and 30% are there with a mental health crisis and often are already on a waiting list. Does the Chancellor agree that when finances are so stretched, there must not be the temptation to view primary care as a cost to be cut, because investment in dentists, doctors, public health and mental health will make the NHS more efficient, and that will be better for patients and the taxpayer in the long run?