Valerie Vaz MP: speeches 2024

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22 Oct 2024 · Pub and Hospitality Sector · Hansard source
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I call the Lib Dem spokesperson, Sarah Gibson, to speak.
22 Oct 2024 · Pub and Hospitality Sector · Hansard source
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Yes, thank you. I call Peter Bedford to wind up.
10 Oct 2024 · Gaza and Humanitarian Aid · Hansard source
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Order. This should be an intervention, not a speech, because many people are waiting to speak.
10 Oct 2024 · Gaza and Humanitarian Aid · Hansard source
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I expect to take winding-up speeches from the Front Benches at about 4.5 pm.
10 Oct 2024 · Gaza and Humanitarian Aid · Hansard source
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We will try to get everyone in. We have three people and I want to start wind-ups at 4.5 pm, so please keep it short.
10 Oct 2024 · Gaza and Humanitarian Aid · Hansard source
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Order. A number of Members wish to speak, so I will impose an informal three-minute time limit. Please be kind to each other so you can all get in.
10 Oct 2024 · Gaza and Humanitarian Aid · Hansard source
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You have a minute left, Minister.
10 Oct 2024 · Gaza and Humanitarian Aid · Hansard source
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Order. I want to put the Question. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House has considered humanitarian aid and Gaza.
10 Oct 2024 · Gaza and Humanitarian Aid · Hansard source
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Two minutes left.
7 Oct 2024 · NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation · Hansard source
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It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans). The report is a tour de force from Lord Darzi, and I thank him for his work. The Secretary of State rightly commissioned the report as a benchmark for future improvement. I was a member of the Health Committee from 2010 to 2015. Given the evidence we heard, there was no alternative but to pause the Bill—the Committee played an important role in that. Chapter 10 of the report sets out the structure. Lord Darzi points out that the 2012 Act was three times the size of the original Act setting up the NHS. The 2022 Act moved into integrated care, and in paragraph 15 on page 121, he raises some concerns about how the ICBs—integrated care boards—operate, and their accountability. Could there be a review into how they operate? Paragraph 37 highlights that trust chief executives’ pay is based on the turnover of the organisation, which encourages trusts to “grow their revenue rather than to improve operational performance.” Some are even paid more than the Prime Minister. The flow of patients is important, which is where working with local authorities is so important. We can move planes around the world, but it seems we cannot move people out of hospital. The Select Committee visited Torbay, which was set up in 2009. We followed Mrs Smith from a single point of contact all the way through. As Lord Darzi said on page 77, collaboration is not the same as integration. On page 5, paragraph 13, he points out that too great a share of the money is spent in hospitals rather than in the community. On page 81, he said that “GP…contracts are complex” and doing the right thing for patients is the wrong thing for GP income. He said, “That cannot be right.” Our mantra should be “prevention, prevention, prevention”. In our report, we said that public health should be moved into local authorities. As Lord Darzi said, health visitors are dropping. He also said that the NHS is missing an opportunity to intervene early. We had Sure Start, which is where health visitors were focused. He talked about clinical negligence. Some £2.9 billion— 1.7%—of the budget is spent on settling claims. Can the Secretary of State pursue the duty of candour and ask each trust to look at whether they can move cases into arbitration? Sadly, disparities by ethnicity make very grim and sad reading. Paragraph 24 refers to the median age at death as 62 for white people, 40 for black people, 33 for Asian people and 30 for those from a mixed background. There was supposed to be a chart in the report, but it is not there. Will the Secretary of State look at producing it? Lord Darzi’s report gives the Secretary of State and the health team an important opportunity to re-set the NHS. It is the envy of the world and free at the point of use. As Lord Darzi said, we cannot afford not to have an NHS.
11 Sept 2024 · Financial Fraud and Economic Crime · Hansard source
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I call the spokesperson for the Lib Dems, Chris Coghlan.
11 Sept 2024 · Financial Fraud and Economic Crime · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Minister, who was appointed this morning, to speak.
11 Sept 2024 · Financial Fraud and Economic Crime · Hansard source
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I thank the hon. Member for his assistance. I expect to take the first of the Opposition spokespersons at 5.08 pm. They will have five minutes each and the Minister will have 10 minutes. If hon. Members wish to speak, they should bob.
11 Sept 2024 · Financial Fraud and Economic Crime · Hansard source
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I thank the audio technician for sorting the problem out earlier. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House has considered the impact of financial fraud and economic crime.
11 Sept 2024 · Financial Fraud and Economic Crime · Hansard source
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Order. Apparently, there is an acoustic problem for everybody sitting in the front row. Could the hon. Gentleman move to the back as the mics are not working?
11 Sept 2024 · Financial Fraud and Economic Crime · Hansard source
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I am really sorry, but Hansard may not have picked up the earlier part of your speech, so could I ask you to start again, please? Thank you very much. You are doing a grand job for your first attempt.
11 Sept 2024 · Oswestry to Gobowen Railway Line · Hansard source
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I will call Helen Morgan to move the motion and then the Minister to respond. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention for 30-minute debates.
11 Sept 2024 · Rural Depopulation · Hansard source
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I call the Liberal Democrat spokesman.
11 Sept 2024 · Rural Depopulation · Hansard source
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Order. We will start the wind-up speeches at 3.28 pm and we have three more speakers, so hon. Members can do the maths.
11 Sept 2024 · Rural Depopulation · Hansard source
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I expect to call the Lib Dem opposition spokesperson at 3.28 pm.
11 Sept 2024 · Rural Depopulation · Hansard source
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I call Torcuil Crichton to move the motion.

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