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Andrew Gwynne

Speaking in the House of Commons on 4 February 2025

Debate

National Cancer Plan

Contribution

My hon. Friend raises an important point, and it is a good one on which to end. Each of those three shifts—from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention—could be taken in isolation. However, by putting them together, we can shift how we deliver health and care in this country. We will make it fit for purpose, we will drive up standards across the system, we will get the NHS back to constitutional standards—which means lower waiting times, shorter waiting lists and better outcomes—and, when it comes to cancer, we will save lives. It is as simple as that. Bill Presented Statutory Adoption Pay (Report on Extension to the Self-Employed) Bill Presentation and First Reading (Standing Order No. 57) Lisa Smart presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the merits of extending eligibility for statutory adoption pay to persons who are self-employed or contractors; and for connected purposes. Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 7 March, and to be printed (Bill 175).

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