Business of the House

Siobhain McDonagh Excerpts

Thursday 2nd July 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We need to end this session by around 11.45 am, so let’s help each other. I call Siobhain McDonagh to set a good example.

[Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab)]

St Helier hospital has the fourth best maternity unit in the country, the only exclusively NHS-run assisted conception unit in south-west London, and a specialist gynaecology ward where nurses are highly trained in counselling. Yet all that is set to close next May because of the need for emergency repairs. Could the Leader of the House find time for a debate on those vital services, and whether they be temporarily relocated somewhere else on the St Helier site and returned to the current building on completion of the repairs?

[Sir Alan Campbell]

My hon. Friend is a strong defender of the interests of her constituents, and I listen very carefully to her concerns. The Government are committed to improving maternity across the country. That is why we have set up a national maternity and neonatal taskforce, and we are very keen to get on with it. If she wishes to apply for an Adjournment debate, she could hear directly from a Minister about how her specific constituency concerns might be addressed, and if she wishes to seek a meeting with Ministers to make her case, I will help her to arrange one.