April 2026

Parliamentary appearance by Carolyn Harris

Parliamentary appearance by Carolyn Harris

Parliamentary appearance by Mark Sewards

Parliamentary appearance by Lisa Smart

Parliamentary appearance by Simon Lightwood

Parliamentary appearance by Rachel Hopkins

Parliamentary appearance by Dan Jarvis

Parliamentary appearance by Andrew Cooper

Parliamentary appearance by Sir Bernard Jenkin

Parliamentary appearance by Anna Gelderd

Parliamentary appearance by Lilian Greenwood

Parliamentary appearance by Richard Quigley

Parliamentary appearance by Neil Duncan-Jordan

Parliamentary appearance by Dan Jarvis

Parliamentary appearance by Dan Jarvis

I am grateful to the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) for opening the debate, and to the hon. Member for Dudley (Sonia Kumar) for her work on the APPG and as a physiotherapist. Medical staff in my constituency and across the country are the backbone of our national health service. While doctors and nurses are often front of mind when the public think about the NHS workforce, as we have heard this afternoon an army of highly skilled professionals keep our health services running every single

My hon. Friend is right. We know that with the right support, often from allied health professionals, people do not need to present at A&E and they can get out of hospital and into suitable accommodation with the right level of support much more quickly, which is better for them as individuals and also supports the NHS in carrying out its functions more efficiently. Many of our allied health professionals—the third largest professional group in the NHS—do amazing work, as we have heard. They are

5. What steps he is taking to help increase insourcing within the public sector.

I am grateful for those questions and comments, because, through clause 14, we are seeking to strike a balance. At the moment, in the instance that I gave an example of, the balance is all one way. Of course we want open justice, but that is not the same, as can be the case, as having essentially a mob of people in the gallery whose mere presence is almost certainly intended to intimidate witnesses. Empowering the court to exercise discretion, while retaining the presence of at least one person

I am happy to have you back in the Chair today, Dr Huq. I wish to oppose the clause and the schedule. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bolton South and Walkden for pointing out so clearly that the restrictions on appeals will push down hardest on the least advantaged people and will compound injustices in wider society, as well as the injustices put in place by other clauses. I will not reiterate in detail the evidence we heard, or the speeches I made previously, about the risks of more erro