20 Most Recent Stories From Paul Burstow's recent appearances (TheyWorkForYou)

Tue 16th Mar 2010:

Topical Questions | Oral Answers to Questions - Treasury | Commons debates.

Last week Sutton council granted planning permission for a new patient wing to be built at St. Helier hospital, removing the last obstacle to Treasury approval for the necessary investment. Will...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

Could I ask the Minister to address the real concern, which is about the money getting to where it is needed, and given that I have asked several other questions that he probably will not have a...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

I thank the hon. Gentleman for mentioning that important point. Although it is incumbent on the Minister to spell out how he will ensure that accountability, given the proximity of the general...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

Does my hon. Friend agree that a stark contrast has emerged from the National Audit Office's work? The NAO gave a glowing report on the national stroke strategy's progress and identified two key...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there should not be national announcements about sums of money allocated to national strategies unless they are accompanied by a clear plan of how local...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

There is a huge accountability deficit here. PCTs cannot be held to account, and sometimes getting an answer to any such questions is like getting blood out of a stone. I first asked Ministers...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

I have been an MP for 13 years, and I am used to the fact that that is sometimes the outcome of Westminster Hall debates. However, obtaining coverage is not the only reason we have such debates;...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

My hon. Friend makes some powerful points. Evidence has been gathered over the years, by the Audit Commission and others, of diagnostic denial in the NHS with regard to dementia. That is...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, which I am sure the Minister and others will have heard. He is right to identify the cost of care. A substantial part of the £23 billion economic...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to identify the demographics, which present a problem not only in the increasing number of people who present with dementia, but in our society's ability to...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] - Dementia Strategy | Westminster Hall debates.

I am grateful for this opportunity to speak about the national dementia strategy-an issue to which the House has returned on many occasions during the past few months and in which I have taken an...

Wed 10th Mar 2010:

Engagements | Oral Answers to Questions - Prime Minister | Commons debates.

Last week, 170 families in Sutton Cheam and Worcester park learned that their children had not been offered a place at the local high school in my constituency. That means that many boys and...

Thu 4th Mar 2010:

Business of the House | Commons debates.

On Monday this week, 170 families in the London borough of Sutton learned that their children will not be obtaining a high school place in the borough. At the same time they learned that 986...

Mon 1st Mar 2010:

Flexible Working: Carers | Business, Innovation and Skills | Written Answers.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people have applied to their employer for flexible working arrangements to assist them with their caring...

Mon 22nd Feb 2010:

NHS: Fees and Charges | Health | Written Answers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS has collected in charges for services to patients not entitled to free services in each year since such charges were introduced; and if...

Digital Broadcasting: Radio | Culture Media and Sport | Written Answers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent representations he has received from commercial radio stations on the effects on their businesses of the roll-out of digital...

Digital Broadcasting: Radio | Culture Media and Sport | Written Answers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps his Department has taken to inform the public of the Government's plans for analogue wavelengths as part of its plans for...

Thu 4th Feb 2010:

Business of the House | Commons debates.

May I draw the attention of the Leader of the House to early-day motion 626? [That this House notes that the report of the National Audit Office (NAO) on dementia services found that there has...

Wed 3rd Feb 2010:

Social Services: Regulation | Health | Written Answers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) improvement plans, (b) warning letters, (c) statutory requirement notices, (d) changes to conditions of registration and (e)...

First Capital Connect - [Joan Walley in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates.

It is not just that trains have been delivered late; they are not delivering the service they are meant to deliver. I gather that at the moment, First Capital Connect trains, the 377s, are...

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