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14 July 2026

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Oral Health Questions on NHS safety, access, estates and services are followed by a contested change to Commons business to prioritise a debate on Iran, then scrutiny of the UK–Switzerland FTA and associated medicines/IP issues alongside Private Members’ Bills including one on lifting FOI exemptions for the monarchy.

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Health Questions and subsequent House business

34:52

Health questions — NHS safety, access and estates

34:52

Health questions — children’s care to local services

34:52

Children’s health, maternity safety and social prescribing

34:52

Children and young people’s health priorities

34:52

Q1 — Secretary of State: children and young people’s health

34:52

Q1 supplementaries — local initiatives, SEND, limb loss, children’s dentistry

35:32

Maternity and neonatal safety reforms

39:32

Q2 — Minister: maternity failings and national action plan

39:32

Q2 supplementaries — women’s voices and CQC‑rated units

40:05

Social prescribing and NHS workforce wellbeing

42:26

Q3 — Minister: social prescribing funding and local commissioning

42:26

Q4 — Secretary of State: reducing NHS staff sickness absence

44:52

NHS digitisation, GP model and hospital estates

46:53

NHS digital infrastructure and single patient record

46:53

Q5 — Secretary of State: NHS digital infrastructure and single patient record

46:53

GP partnership model, access and future contracts

49:38

Q6 — Minister: GP partnership model and access

49:38

Q6 supplementaries — future of GP contracts and ‘plan B’ concerns

54:30

Hospital heatwave resilience, corridor care and estates planning

57:14

Q7 & Q19 — Minister: hospital heatwave resilience and capital plan

57:14

Q7 & Q19 supplementaries — corridor care, local estates and emergency planning

01:01:56

Patient voice, inequalities and NHS system update

01:04:15

Q8–Q9 — Bereavement support, NHS accountability and patient voice

01:04:15

Q8 — Minister: funding for bereaved parents’ support

01:04:15

Q9 — Secretary of State: NHS accountability, Health Bill and patient voice

01:07:21

Q10–Q11 — NHS dentistry access, health inequalities and workforce planning

01:10:19

Q10 — Minister: access to NHS dentistry and future contract reform

01:10:19

Q11 — Minister: tackling health inequalities, air quality and workforce

01:13:28

Respiratory screening and NHS system update

01:17:03

Q12 — Minister: lung cancer screening, COPD and incidental findings

01:17:03

Secretary of State update — estates investment and waiting lists

01:20:04

Health questions — women’s health to local services

01:25:05

Women’s health, maternity safety and local access

01:25:05

Women’s health, maternity negligence and clinical risks

01:25:05

NHS dentistry reform and neighbourhood health provision

01:29:05

Health questions — regulation, emergency care and capital projects

01:31:27

Healthcare regulators, emergency services and hospital capital projects

01:31:27

Health questions — palliative care, long‑term conditions and local services

01:35:26

Final health questions — palliative care, vaccine damage and dementia funding

01:35:26

Cancer charities’ sustainability and GP practice relocation

01:40:33

Commons business change — cancelled opposition day and Iran debate

01:41:46

Commons business change — Iran debate and opposition day

01:41:46

Government business change — Iran and national security

01:41:46

Business statement — change of agenda for Iran and national security

01:41:46

Business statement — Iran debate replaces opposition day

01:41:46

Iran policy SI and debate format

01:47:59

Iran SI and IRGC proscription query

01:47:59

Lib Dem concerns on foreign affairs scrutiny and PM timetable

01:48:31

Opposition day cancellation — procedural challenge and scrutiny loss

01:52:46

Opposition day cancellation — initial challenge and justification

01:52:46

Backbench Labour and ex‑Whips challenge cancellation of opposition day

01:52:46

Middle East crisis versus scrutiny and recall threshold

01:56:46

Backbench pressure for PM scrutiny before recess

01:59:45

Accusations of disdain for Parliament and demand for new PM statement

01:59:45

Backbench Conservatives — loss of opposition day and PM scrutiny

02:02:12

Usual channels dispute and Iran debate as priority

02:07:39

Government schedule changes and PM scrutiny dispute

02:13:37

Proposals for extra sitting and Government refusal

02:13:37

Alternative proposals to sit Monday and Leader’s rejection

02:13:37

Final exchanges on democratic mandate and continuity of policy

02:17:34

Points of order — opposition days and PM scrutiny

02:21:02

Points of order — opposition day motions and PM scrutiny

02:21:02

UK–Switzerland FTA scrutiny and House business

02:24:14

UK–Switzerland FTA — Ministerial presentation and scrutiny

02:24:14

Minister — UK–Switzerland FTA substance and trade agenda

02:24:14

Minister — Swiss FTA substance and UK trade strategy

02:24:14

Ministerial statement — UK–Switzerland enhanced FTA: services, digital and mobility

02:24:14

Minister — wider trade agenda and recent bilateral deals

02:29:12

Political framing — Brexit dividend claims vs EU trade losses

02:32:31

Conservative response — Swiss FTA as Brexit dividend

02:32:31

Minister’s reply — EU trade losses and strategic priorities

02:37:21

Trade policy scrutiny — UK–Swiss FTA and NHS impacts

02:40:57

Pharmaceutical IP provisions and NHS medicines costs

02:40:57

Select Committee Chair — pharma IP and NHS medicines costs

02:40:57

Pharma provisions — links to US deal and NHS impact

02:47:04

UK–Swiss FTA and post‑Brexit EU relationship

02:43:28

Lib Dem spokesperson — EU relationship, roaming and e‑gates

02:43:28

Brexit, Swiss model and future EU relationship

02:48:39

Swiss FTA questions — Brexit stance, devolved impacts and exports

02:51:22

House business and Ten Minute Rule Bill

03:00:21

House business and Ten Minute Rule Bill

03:00:21

House business — introduction of three Private Members’ Bills

03:00:21

Procedural business — presentation of three Private Members’ Bills

03:00:21

Ten Minute Rule Bill — FOI and monarchy

03:01:31

Ten Minute Rule Bill — FOI and the monarchy

03:01:31

Hillsborough Law Bill — scrutiny and Commons approval

03:12:03

Hillsborough Law Bill — purpose and oversight scope

03:12:03

Government and initial cross‑party framing of Hillsborough Law Bill

03:12:03

Government — Bill objectives, candour duty and implementation

03:12:03

Minister — Bill purpose and candour framework

03:12:03

Public Office Accountability Bill — Hillsborough Law context and scope

03:12:03

Minister — duty of candour and national security bodies

03:20:05

Minister — oversight, legal aid and implementation

03:29:21

Q&A — national oversight mechanism and prevention of future deaths

03:29:21

Government amendments — expanded legal aid and archivist exemption

03:33:57

Minister — commencement timetable and extension powers

03:39:24

Hillsborough Law and duty of candour — opposition and cross‑party stance

03:42:43

Shadow Minister — duty of candour and security agencies

03:42:43

Shadow Minister — Hillsborough experience and core question

03:42:43

Shadow Minister — government handling and rushed scrutiny

03:45:32

Shadow Minister — dropped safeguards and national security risks

03:47:19

Shadow Minister — national security risks and new offences

03:51:01

Hillsborough Law — cross‑party support and Lib Dem proposals

04:01:40

Paula Barker — backing NC6/NC7 and Hillsborough families

04:01:40

Lib Dem spokesperson — Hillsborough Law context and security services carve-out

04:07:22

Lib Dem amendments — whistleblowers, oversight and legal aid

04:11:25

Intelligence services oversight and candour scope

04:16:42

Intelligence services, ISC oversight and wider backbench amendments

04:16:42

Intelligence services, oversight and national mechanism

04:16:42

Derek Twigg — Hillsborough experience and ISC role

04:16:42

ISC member — criticism of late U‑turn on security services

04:21:53

Select Committee Chair — call for national oversight mechanism

04:28:43

Backbench and SNP amendments — Independent Public Advocate, media offences and ISC oversight

04:44:52

Backbench tributes — campaigners, duty of candour and media

04:44:52

Backbencher — Independent Public Advocate and non‑legal route

04:53:16

SNP — amendment 20 on ISC oversight and rushed scrutiny

05:03:02

NHS duty of candour and sectoral scope

04:38:46

NHS duty of candour — legal services and culture change

04:38:46

Former Health Secretary — NHS candour amendments

04:38:46

Duty of candour scope — security services and private utilities

05:07:38

Shadow Minister — backing security service candour amendments

05:07:38

Amendment 149 — extending duty of candour to water companies

05:14:11

Hillsborough Law — duty of candour and Bill passage

05:18:06

Hillsborough Law and new duty of candour

05:18:06

Hillsborough Law — justice failures and new duty of candour

05:18:06

Hillsborough Law — miscarriages of justice and survivor demands

05:18:06

Kim Johnson — Hillsborough as miscarriage of justice and need for oversight

05:18:06

Ian Byrne — personal Hillsborough testimony and survivor duty

05:24:54

Ian Byrne — media, police culpability and demand for Hillsborough Law

05:27:53

Ian Byrne — cross‑disaster campaign and meaning of the Hillsborough Law

05:30:09

Duty of candour — scope and Hillsborough legacy

05:35:22

Alex Davies‑Jones — duty of candour and Hillsborough families’ legacy

05:35:22

Alex Davies‑Jones — universal application of candour and security services

05:38:41

Backbencher — universal duty of candour, no exemptions

05:42:41

Backbench MPs and Minister — candour, security and accountability

05:47:08

Backbench MPs — duty of candour and security services

05:47:08

Emma Lewell — Manchester Arena families and security services candour

05:47:08

Sarah Russell — rejecting security carve‑outs and backing oversight mechanism

05:51:41

Backbencher — support for candour duty and NI legacy

05:55:54

MPs — wider accountability, disinformation and compensation

06:00:53

Luke Myer — offence of misleading the public and political accountability

06:00:53

Contaminated blood APPG — call for compensation and oversight bodies

06:04:22

Minister — national security, health candour and cultural change

06:10:27

Minister’s closing speech — national security safeguards

06:10:27

Minister — health candour, maternity reviews and oversight

06:18:36

Minister’s summation — cultural change and thanks

06:23:11

Hillsborough Law Bill — report stage completion and Third Reading

06:26:14

Report stage — divisions and Government amendments

06:26:14

Report stage — new clauses and amendment 3 vote

06:26:14

Report stage — new clauses 8 and 9 agreed

06:26:14

Division on amendment 3 — Jess Brown-Fuller

06:27:50

Report stage — divisions and Government amendments

06:40:20

Government amendments 153–157 and related changes agreed

06:40:20

Division on amendment 199 and further government amendments

06:41:31

Hillsborough Law — Third Reading and passage

07:11:14

Hillsborough Law — Third Reading debate and passage

07:11:14

Hillsborough Law — report stage concluded, King’s consent and PM’s third reading speech

07:11:14

Shadow Minister — conditional support and criticism of rushed process

07:16:57

Macclesfield MP — Hillsborough Law legacy and Liverpool’s role

07:25:51

Macclesfield MP — extending justice to other scandals and ending cover‑ups

07:29:31

Lib Dem Leader — cross‑party tribute and culture of cover‑up

07:33:50

Hillsborough Law — Third Reading agreed and carryover motions

07:37:55

Steel Industry Nationalisation Bill — Lords amendments

07:40:27

Steel Industry Nationalisation Bill — Lords amendments

07:40:27

Steel Industry Nationalisation Bill — Lords amendments

07:40:27

Steel Industry Nationalisation — Lords amendments

07:40:27

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill — Lords amendments and safeguards

07:40:27

Minister — Lords amendments to Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

07:40:27

Shadow Secretary Andrew Griffith — opposition to uncapped nationalisation and energy policy

07:43:41

Lib Dem spokesperson and backbencher — support with cost, environmental and scrutiny safeguards

07:49:07

Petitions and Thames Water regulatory scrutiny

07:56:38

Petitions and Thames Water regulatory scrutiny

07:56:38

Petitions and Thames Water oversight debate

07:56:38

Public petitions — local government and donations

07:56:38

Public petitions — local government and donations

07:56:38

Public petitions — local council, donations and Crystal Palace centre

07:56:38

Thames Water crisis — backbench case and Minister’s reply

08:02:12

Backbench case against Thames Water and SAR

08:02:12

Adjournment debate opened — Thames Water pollution and rising bills

08:02:12

Thames Water’s finances, licence breaches and Government inaction

08:05:08

Backbencher — call to place Thames Water in SAR

08:08:26

Backbench exchanges — mutual ownership exit and questions to DEFRA

08:11:58

Minister’s response — regulatory reforms, SAR threshold and Ofwat’s role

08:17:18

Minister’s reply — coalition-era failures and new Clean Water Bill

08:17:18

Minister — Ofwat’s role, SAR legal threshold and Thames creditors

08:21:46

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House of Commons

14 July 2026

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 Actual start 11:00 House of Commons

34:51 - 34:57

Speaker 3

Order, order. We start with questions to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Lindiwe Palmer.

34:57 - 34:59

Speaker 1

Question number one please, Mr. Speaker.

34:59 - 35:30

Speaker 2

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The government is committed to making this generation of children the healthiest ever, as set out in our 10-year health plan.

That is why we are investing 200 million pound to strengthen healthy baby services through Best Start family hubs, expanding mental health support to nearly 6 million young people in school or college, and using interventions like passing the Tobacco and Vapes Act to create the first smoke-free generation.

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