Multiple Births: Antenatal Care

07 Dec 2018

Department of Health and Social Care

Justin Madders received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November to Question 186351 on Multiple Births: Antenatal Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that...

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Business of the House

06 Dec 2018

Commons debates

On 23 November the PSA Group announced another 241 redundancies at Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port; when they have been completed we will have lost over half the workforce in just a year, so as the...

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Disclosure of Information

06 Dec 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Justin Madders received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2018 to Question 190909 on Sharing Economy: Conditions of Employment, whether his...

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Free Schools and Academies in England - [Geraint Davies in the Chair]

05 Dec 2018

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I thank the right hon. Member for Chelsea and Fulham (Greg Hands) for securing the debate and for giving us an insight into how...

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Home Office: Disclosure of Information

04 Dec 2018

Home Office

Justin Madders received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has signed with employees in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

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Bullying and Harassment of House of Commons Staff Independent Inquiry

29 Nov 2018

House of Commons Commission

Justin Madders received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the oral contribution of 05 November 2018, Official Report column 1281, how...

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Duty to consult with devolved administrations

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The Minister has put on record pretty clearly his intention in respect of ongoing and continued engagement with the devolved institutions. He is right that we are concerned that the powers under...

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Duty to consult with devolved administrations

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, that the clause be read a Second time. I hope this is a straightforward and uncontroversial new clause. We have already spoken about the importance of reciprocal healthcare...

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Strategy for settling disputes concerning healthcare agreements

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am grateful to the Minister for setting that out in more detail than we were able to elicit on Second Reading. Given that the withdrawal agreement had not been published at the time, I...

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Strategy for settling disputes concerning healthcare agreements

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. On Second Reading, I spoke about the importance of dispute resolution, and asked the then Minister for Health, the right hon. Member for...

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Strategy to ensure continued access to medical care in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am content with the Minister’s comments. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.

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Strategy to ensure continued access to medical care in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am minded not to press the new clause to a vote if the Minister assures us that he will endeavour to keep us updated on the contingency plans, if it looks like we are approaching a cliff-edge...

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Strategy to ensure continued access to medical care in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Streeter. I recall that the first Westminster Hall debate that I secured was under your...

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Regulations and directions

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank my hon. Friend and neighbour for his intervention. He is absolutely right. One of the things that was stated during the referendum campaign was that Parliament should take back control,...

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Regulations and directions

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The Minister and I will not agree on that, unfortunately. I will not repeat the arguments that we have already gone through, but I will remind hon. Members that the Lords Delegated Powers and...

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Regulations and directions

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am afraid that I am not reassured. The Minister has not really addressed the practical issue about the 40-day waiting time for the negative procedure. If we enter a no-deal scenario after 29...

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Regulations and directions

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am afraid the Minister has not managed to reassure me, despite his best efforts. When a Bill would confer power on the Executive, we have to be very careful about giving that power away. It...

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Regulations and directions

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move amendment 2, in clause 5, page 3, line 44, lea ve out subsection (5) and subsection (6) and insert— “(5) Any statutory instrument which...

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Healthcare and healthcare agreements

29 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. First of all, I join the Minister in thanking those witnesses who came and gave evidence on Tuesday. There were certainly some...

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Examination of Witness

27 Nov 2018

Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

Justin Madders made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Q Obviously, we hope that we do not need to get into that situation. Do your members plan things quite far in advance because of the need to get the right treatment?

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