Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish the response to his Department's consultation on local authority remote meetings.
Anne Marie Morris: indicated assent.
Anne Marie Morris: I rise to address the challenging issue of access for patients to medicines and medical devices. We all believe absolutely passionately that we should have access to doctors and nurses, good hospitals and operating theatres, but I think the pandemic has shown beyond question that access to medicines and medical devices goes hand in hand, and without that we do not have the NHS that I think we...
Anne Marie Morris: I could not agree more. It is crucial to realise we are talking not just about medicines and drugs but also devices and, as the hon. Gentleman says, the processes, which are often the connection between the medicine, the device and the patient. Within these health bodies, there is no training and nobody specifically focused on monitoring innovation, and there is no obligation to prescribe....
Anne Marie Morris: Thank you for the correction, Madam Deputy Speaker. My second proposal is that there should be an innovation officer specifically appointed to look at and manage these issues. Failing all else, there should be a final provision that specifically puts an obligation on the health authority to provide any NICE-approved medicine. Then, as a matter of practicality that is not a matter for the...
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the number of affordable homes (a) supplied and (b) required to meet demand in the South West.
Anne Marie Morris: I thank the Minister for the time he gave me to consider my amendments, which we discussed in some detail, and I thank Her Majesty’s Opposition who, very kindly, took some of my amendments through Committee, sadly unsuccessfully. Tonight I hope to have the opportunity myself to explain why these amendments are so important. Before the House thinks, “Oh my goodness, how can we possibly...
Anne Marie Morris: Then I would like to see you wishing to press it to a vote and putting your vote—and your feet—where your mouth is. [Interruption.] I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker; it is not your mouth. I was carried away by an overwhelming desire to get my point across, and I apologise most profoundly. I turn to access to medicines. Most Members believe, do they not, that medicines that have been...
Anne Marie Morris: I thank the hon. Gentleman. He is absolutely right. If we could have this new system, so there was a research strategy and an obligation to consider clinical trial requests and then report, we would be in a very different place. Madam Deputy Speaker, you have been incredibly indulgent and so have all hon. Members. On that note, having had my time for my four areas, I thank the House for its...
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2021 to Question 51707 on Teignmouth Hospital, whether he will make a decision on the future of Teignmouth Hospital before the end of 2021.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to report the findings of the consultation on the appointment and operation of the Patient Safety Commissioner.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the National Grid has the capacity to manage a potential increase in demand for electricity as a result of the UK's transition to net zero.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will set out (a) the number of daily positive covid-19 cases on the Parliamentary Estate from 18 October 2021 to date and (b) the case threshold at which the Commission considered it necessary to reintroduce enhanced measures.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Health and Social Care Levy rise in National Insurance is an increase of 1.25 percentage points or 1.25 per cent; and what the equivalent percentage rise is in the amount take from a standard taxpayer.
Anne Marie Morris: We are clearly in very difficult and unprecedented times. It is a therefore a huge challenge for any Government, of any political persuasion, to decide exactly how to deal with the economy. We do not have a crystal ball and we cannot foresee what will be. It has been difficult for the Treasury to take a decision to increase taxes, but that is what it has done. It is not something that I am in...
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department made of the potential non-financial costs to society of achieving the Government's net zero emissions target.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2021 to Question 45954, on Carbon Emissions: Costs, when his Department will publish the expected cost of achieving the Government's net zero emissions target.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to include supply chain security agreements for (a) medicines, (b) food, (c) gas and (d) other essential goods in future trade deals.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage volunteering during the recovery from the covid-19 outbreak.