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It is very welcome that today’s figures show that wages are rising, unemployment is falling and we have a record number of people in work, b

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NICE on its appraised criteria to fac

I am grateful to the hon. Lady, as she has managed to put the point that I was trying to make more clearly than I was able to.

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for intervening in such a friendly way.

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman; he held the door open for me earlier this week, and has done so again verbally today.

I always look for points of agreement, but the hon. Gentleman is free to shout, “You were caught out”, from a sedentary position.

I always look for points of agreement, rather than points of disagreement.

I thank my hon. Friend for that important intervention. I was going to come on to that, but I will deal with it now.

That was an important intervention from the hon. Lady. I do not agree that those subjects were chosen on ideological grounds.

I thank the hon. Lady for clarifying that point.