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Steve Brine
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Steve Brine (Winchester) (Con)
The Select Committee looks forward to hearing about the major conditions strategy and engaging with it, as I hope Ministers will engage with our major prevention inquiry, launched last week. One of our national newspapers has contacted 125 acute trusts and asked them about visiting rights. Some 70% of them still have some form of restrictions in place, most commonly limiting the time that people can spend with their loved ones and the number of people who can sit by the bedside. On 19 May last year, the chief of NHS England said that we should return to pre-pandemic levels—
Mr Speaker
Order. The hon. Gentleman may be the Chair of the Select Committee, but I have to get other people in—it is not just his show.