Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Caroline Dinenage Excerpts
Wednesday 7th September 2022

(2 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait The Prime Minister
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People should not have to wait as long as they are for ambulance services, and my new Health Secretary is immediately tackling this issue. She has already laid out her priorities, and sorting out the ambulance service is one of them.

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Dame Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
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May I, too, warmly welcome our new Prime Minister to her role, and indeed all her Front Benchers to theirs?

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and, as my right hon. Friend knows, cancer is still the biggest killer of children under the age of 14. Will she restate her Government’s commitment to publishing a 10-year cancer strategy, and can that strategy embed a childhood cancer mission at its very heart?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait The Prime Minister
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Cancer is a devastating disease, and it is particularly heartbreaking when children have cancer. We will certainly proceed with the strategy that my hon. Friend has mentioned, and I know that our new Health Secretary will do all she can to help those children with cancer.