Lord Patel (CB)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her comprehensive response. She might reflect on some of the other points that she was not able to answer, such as the one on isotopes, which is very important. We have debated that before. One or two noble Lords quite rightly mentioned children’s cancers, which the report mentions very thinly. There is an issue with children’s cancers, including the suggestion that a well-run, efficient children’s cancer unit is under threat of being shut down. That cannot be so, and it needs to be investigated. Aside from that, I thank all noble Lords. The Minister is quite right: there is a daunting array of them, even to me, and I have six double-sided pages of the important contributions made. If I were to summarise, your Lordships would not like me because they would be here for a long while, so I will not. Each and every contribution was brilliant. I thank noble Lords not just for turning up but for making such a good contribution. To me, the summary of it was that there were constructive, helpful comments to help this national plan, which on the whole each and every speaker welcomed. They were not criticising it overtly—apart from me—and I am sorry that I teased them at the beginning. The noble Earl, Lord Howe, made a comment about me and the way I have engaged with him over time in debates. The problem is that, with his silken charm, you never know whether he is being kind to you or about to put a dagger in you. But it is always delightful to listen to him, and he made some important points, again in a helpful way. I hope we will soon see the workforce plan. It is absolutely crucial to have a workforce plan focusing on cancers again to deliver the workforce we require for all the things we want to do. I thank all noble Lords, and I thank the Minister very much. I agree with the comment made by one Member that we are lucky to have her as a Minister.