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Paul Williams Excerpts
Tuesday 23rd October 2018

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Brine Portrait Steve Brine
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As I said, we are spending £16 billion of our constituents’ money during this spending review period on public health grants. Decisions about where we go in future are of course not a matter for me but for the Chancellor in the spending review. This House decided in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to make every upper tier local authority a public health authority. We believe that it is right for local authorities to make those decisions, with the funding that we give them.

Paul Williams Portrait Dr Paul Williams (Stockton South) (Lab)
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How many health visitors have been lost since 2015? How will the Minister ensure that important investments are made at the start of life to reduce health inequalities?