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Mental Health Services (9 Nov 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: rose—

Mental Health Services (9 Nov 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: I just say to the Minister that Hampshire county council's health overview and scrutiny committee chairman is as alarmed as I am at the proposal to close the PICU and the intermediate beds in the rehabilitation centre. What can the Minister do if that committee, the local Member and the experts all say that the foundation trust is getting it wrong?

Mental Health Services (9 Nov 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: I know a cue when I hear one. Not for the first time, my hon. Friend makes a remarkably eloquent case on the plight of the mentally ill. I was delighted that the brand-new Woodhaven hospital was built and opened in the past few years in my constituency. One reason why its acute ward is not a threatening place to be is that it has alongside it a psychiatric intensive care unit, so that if...

Mental Health Services (9 Nov 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: I promise that this will be my last intervention. I had not intended to make it, but as my hon. Friend has referred to rehabilitation in intermediate stages, I must draw attention to the fact that Crowlin house—a state-of-the-art rehabilitation centre in Totton, in my constituency—is threatened with closure. It has been reprieved for the moment because no places have been found...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Schedule 22 — Repeals (27 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: I am grateful to the Secretary of State for taking this late intervention, but he spoke about the application of common sense to coastal access. Natural England has said that 37 per cent. of coastal pathways in the south-east are not yet legally secure. The Bill is intended to make them secure, but many of those pathways already have informal access. Common sense dictates that Natural England...

Mental Health Services (New Forest) (20 Oct 2009)

Julian Lewis: It is not in my constituency.

Mental Health Services (New Forest) (20 Oct 2009)

Julian Lewis: I am sorry to cut into the short time I have allowed the Minister, but I have heard those statistics before and I am assured that there will always be lulls at some point. This was an atypical couple of weeks and for 80 per cent. of the time, if there had not been those six beds, the system would have been in crisis. He must not rely on those figures.

Mental Health Services (New Forest) (20 Oct 2009)

Julian Lewis: Speaking in debates in the House of Commons is always a slightly tense occupation, but Westminster Hall is normally a more relaxed environment. Today, however, for the first time in Westminster Hall, I feel nervous. I know that on the outcome of this debate depends the future and fate of some of the most vulnerable members of my community. I am pleased that my colleagues, my hon. Friends the...

Mental Health Services (New Forest) (20 Oct 2009)

Julian Lewis: That point about the revolving-door nature of the service offered is crucial; I thank my hon. Friend for making it. I was about to say that Dr. Yonace describes the closure of Ellingham ward as a potentially catastrophic development if it becomes permanent and the great team that runs it is broken up. That is not some politician sounding off; that is an extremely senior professional who is...

Mental Health Services (New Forest) (20 Oct 2009)

Julian Lewis: Indeed. It is supposed to be the case that people from PICUs are not discharged except to another ward. After intensive care, they should be discharged to an acute ward and then, hopefully, back into society, perhaps via some sort of halfway house. If they do not get better, they should go to a low or medium-secure unit for a long-term stay. The problem is that although there is a guideline...

Mental Health Services (New Forest) (20 Oct 2009)

Julian Lewis: My hon. Friend is right. In this case, an inadequate capacity is being built in. I am concerned that the system we are so fortunate to have in the New Forest area is being dismantled on the same basis as the mass closures of the '60s and '70s, even though the units we are discussing were designed for the people who were not catered for by those mass closures. As for the highly specialist...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: Unusually, we have had two days in a row in which to consider the grave problems facing our armed forces in the context of the Afghanistan campaign. Yesterday, we had a major statement from the Prime Minister and an opportunity to question him. Among the points that he acknowledged was the fact that 80 per cent. of our casualties arise from roadside bombs. That is an important factor—in...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: As always, the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I am only sorry that he was not present to contribute more fully to the debate. The preparation of reserves to go into the front line is a continuum. If a major segment of the training process is removed, that will work its way through the system so that when it is necessary to move on to the next section of the continuum, there will be...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: I am sorry: not for the moment. Let me complete my quick survey of the contributions that have been made. My hon. Friend the Member for North Dorset (Mr. Walter) spoke of the duty of European countries to work as individual countries through the institutions that are available, but not to try to offload their defence responsibilities onto those institutions in order to contribute to...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: I fully accept that. Unfortunately, however, if a political solution is to be found in a counter-insurgency campaign, there must be a means of dealing with the element of society that is determined that no political accommodation will be reached. That is a problem that has not yet been solved and cannot be solved by political means alone, just as it cannot be solved by military means alone.

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: No, I will not. I am sorry. Time is against me, and I wish to go a little wider than the question of the Afghanistan campaign, central though it is to our considerations. I wish to revert very briefly to another point touched on by my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury: the unpredictability of future conflicts. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have been involved in counter-insurgency...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: Perhaps I can enlighten the hon. Gentleman. I am sure that if General Dannatt, a very able man indeed, finds a post in a future Conservative Government, he will find it no more difficult than Admiral Lord West has found it to hold a post in the Government whom he supports.

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: The information that I have, which I believe to be accurate, is that the reason for the cut in funding for the Territorial Army is that Regular Army recruitment has exceeded expectation and that funds have to be found somewhere in the land budget to pay for the training of that extra recruitment. Is that true? If it is not, why is the decision on the cut in TA funding being taken so late in...

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: I do not know which of the following two slogans resonates more with you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I know which resonates more with me. There is "The people will decide" on the one hand, and there is "The people do not know what is good for them" on the other. "The people will decide" is the slogan that the Prime Minister used when he visited Southampton and was asked whether fluoridation...

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: No, I will not. I am sorry, but the hon. Gentleman has had his go, and I have very little time. I am sure that the Minister believes that passionately, just as my hon. Friends believe passionately, that it is in the interests of the people to kick out this failing Government and elect the Conservatives. The one thing that we agree on in those contexts is that if we want those things to...