All 1 Geraint Davies contributions to the NHS Funding Act 2020

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Mon 27th Jan 2020
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Geraint Davies Excerpts
2nd reading & 2nd reading: House of Commons
Monday 27th January 2020

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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The Foreign Office is working with international partners both in America and other EU countries, keeping open about the procedures and what it will do for the estimated 200 UK citizens who are in the area in China in which this is currently contained. On the point about the readiness of the NHS here, four centres are stood up and ready should there be a need. The centres are in Guy’s and St Tommy’s, Liverpool, Newcastle and the Royal Free, and there is a further escalation if more beds are needed. So we are ready, but of course we keep all these things under review.

Geraint Davies Portrait Geraint Davies (Swansea West) (Lab/Co-op)
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The Secretary of State will know that we are all looking forward to lots of celebrations of the Chinese new year. What communication has he had with Chinese organisations that are arranging these, so that they can get in contact with people who may have come from Wuhan so as to try to identify risk and pre-empt problems?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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We are using all possible means to get in contact with the 1,460 people whom we need to contact, and who we know have travelled to the UK from Wuhan and who have not as far as we know left the country. We are collaborating with Border Force, the airline and others, including universities, schools and cultural organisations to try to make contact.

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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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I will give way to the hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) and then the hon. Member for Nottingham South (Lilian Greenwood).

Geraint Davies Portrait Geraint Davies
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The Secretary of State knows that NHS funding increases in recent years have averaged about 1.4%. His plan is for 3.4%, yet the last Labour Government delivered average increases of 6% a year—almost twice as much—so how can he be saying that this is enough? It is clearly too little, too late.