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  • Jun 17, 2013:
    • Spending Review | Nato | Commons debates

      Has the Secretary of State thought of giving Treasury officials and Ministers an idiot's guide to what Her Majesty's armed forces are all about, because some of the comments over the weekend about army horses and tanks showed a degree of ignorance?

  • Jun 11, 2013:
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  • Jun 5, 2013:
    • Accident and Emergency Waiting Times | Commons debates

      Mention has been made of an additional 1 million people going to accident and emergency. The derision I received earlier was an attack on organisations such as St John Ambulance, which trains first aiders, because the simple fact is, as I said when speaking to my ten-minute rule Bill 10 years ago, that first aiders will

      "reduce visits to overstretched accident and emergency departments by people whose injuries did not warrant hospital attention"-[Official Report, 19 November 2003; Vol. 413, c. 809.]

      We should be getting more first aiders out there. If the last Labour Government had listened to that, we would have 1 million more first aiders.

    • Accident and Emergency Waiting Times | Commons debates

      Let me bring a note of conciliation to the debate. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that if the nation had more people who are knowledgeable about first aid, fewer people would make their way to A and Es in the first place?

  • Jun 3, 2013:
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  • May 20, 2013:
    • Special Educational Needs | Education | Written Answers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education

      (1) whether visually-impaired children with special educational needs will be entitled to (a) an education, health and care plan and (b) specialist support from birth where appropriate to their assessed needs; and if he will make a statement;

      (2) whether all children and young people with severe sight loss will receive an education, health and care plan; and if he will make a statement.

    • Streptococcus | Health | Written Answers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health

      (1) what assessment his Department has made of the potential effectiveness of a point of care test for group B streptococcus carriage in maternity settings; and if he will make a statement;

      (2) what steps his Department is taking to develop a point of care test for group B streptococcus carriage in pregnant women considered to be at high risk; what time-scale has been set for the introduction of such a test; and if he will make a statement.

    • Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria | International Development | Written Answers

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what (a) financial and (b) other support the UK has provided to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria since the inception of the Fund; and if she will make a statement.

    • British Nuclear Test Veterans' Association | Defence | Written Answers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he has been invited to attend the British Nuclear Test Veterans' Association Conference in Coventry from 24 to 26 May 2013; and if he will make a statement.

    • Afghanistan | Defence | Written Answers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of the Ministry of Defence personnel who will be deployed to the Afghan National Army Officer Academy to provide training and related support will be female; and if he will make a statement.

    • Credit Unions | Oral Answers to Questions - Work and Pensions | Commons debates

      I thank my right hon. Friend for that helpful answer. I know that he would like to praise the volunteers at Colchester credit union for all they do. Will he discuss with his ministerial colleagues in the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Education the importance of encouraging all of us, particularly children, to undertake regular saving?

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