Speaker:Richard Taylor : 1 Commons debate
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Consultations on Post Office Closures (8 Dec 2008)
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Richard Taylor: I am very privileged to be having this intimate exchange with the Minister. I am delighted to see that he will be replying. He knows the west midlands, and my part of it, well; indeed, he has been seen in dungarees driving a steam engine on one occasion. I shall also be fairly quick, as I am sure we all desperately want to get home. The Table Office changed the title of this debate. I wanted...

Written Answers - Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Oil: Waste Management (17 Nov 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the rate of duty to apply to waste derived fuel oil from 1 November on the achievement of complete recovery of waste oil to produce product equivalent fuel.

Written Answers - Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Oil: Waste Disposal (11 Nov 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 178W, on oils: waste management, what provision there is for clean fuel oil in the Waste Oils Directive; and if he will make a statement.

[Frank Cook in the Chair] - Internet Fraud (5 Nov 2008)
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Richard Taylor: It is a delight to see you in the Chair, Mr. Cook, and to see the Minister here, as well as a sprinkling of Members who survived the night and who managed to get up in time this morning. It is a huge privilege not only to have secured a debate on this subject but to have the very first debate after the earth-shattering events in America. I am pleased to be the first Member to congratulate Mr....

speaker: Richard Taylor : 2 Commons debates
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Royal Assent: Primary Care (16 Oct 2008)
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Richard Taylor: It is a delight to follow the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard). Having trained in London rather a long time ago, I know what the standard of general practice was then, and I am very pleased to hear that it is so much better. I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Dartford (Dr. Stoate), because he has removed the need for some of what I had intended to say. I had intended to...

Royal Assent: Primary Care (16 Oct 2008)
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Richard Taylor: Towards the end of this morning's Health Committee meeting, we were all convinced of the value of SHAs, because they carried out the consultation for Lord Darzi's review and canvassed the views of patients, citizens and staff. I changed my mind about the SHAs at the end of that meeting.

speaker: Richard Taylor : 1 Written Answer
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Written Answers - Health: Cancer: Children (16 Oct 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what childhood cancer centres there are in England; and how many (a) patients under treatment, (b) consultant medical staff and (c) clinical nurse specialists there are at each.

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Rare Medical Conditions (14 Oct 2008)
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Richard Taylor: It is very nice to be under your chairmanship, Mrs.Humble, and it is good to see in the hot seats two hon. Members with considerable experience of the NHS from their careers as nurses. I am pleased to see them. I welcome this debate and the introduction given by my friend from the Health Committee, the hon. Member for Bristol,North-West (Dr. Naysmith). It is crucial at this time. So many...

speaker: Richard Taylor : 2 Commons debates
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Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Foundation Trusts (Local People) (22 Jul 2008)
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Richard Taylor: The Minister will be aware of the Local Government Association's health commission report "Who's accountable for health?" It stresses the importance of local involvement networks-LINks-and overview and scrutiny committees, so will he ensure that foundation trust memberships fully engage with LINks and overview and scrutiny committees?

Points of Order: Summer Adjournment (22 Jul 2008)
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Richard Taylor: The best invitation I can offer to the House is to my party conference-the conference of Independent Health Concern. It will take place in my garden, after a very good buffet lunch, on  7 September. We will be discussing my own manifesto for the national health service. I shall share it with the House for a few minutes now, because I am sure that there are a lot of votes in it for all...

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Written Answers - Treasury: Excise Duties: Fuels (9 Jul 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which road transport organisations receive rebates of fuel duty; and if he will make a statement. 

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Written Answers - Health: National Health Service Blood and Transplant Agency (3 Jul 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on the proposed relocation of the National Health Service Blood and Transplant Agency to Bristol; and if he will make a statement. 

Written Answers - Health: NHS Cord Blood Bank (3 Jul 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health  (1)  for what reasons the NHS cord blood bank is to be relocated to Bristol; (2)  what the estimated cost of the proposed relocation of the NHS cord blood bank to Bristol will be.

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Written Answers - Health: Dental Services: Manpower (7 Jul 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dental students qualified as dentists in each of the last two years; and how many vocational training posts were available for the first post-qualification year of approved training in each of those years.

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Oral Answers to Questions - Children, Schools and Families: NHS Next Stage Review (30 Jun 2008)
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Richard Taylor: May I welcome the emphasis on quality, and particularly on compassion and kindness? The debate in the House on 17 June on polyclinics cleared the air very well and told us exactly what GP-led health centres will have to provide. It also made it clear to me for the first time that existing GPs could bid for those services. It has come to my notice that the offers of bidding have closed in some PCT's before general practices have become aware of them. Is there any way by which the length of time can be extended so that GP's can tender on a level playing field?

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Opposition Day - [15th Allotted Day]: NHS (60th Anniversary) (24 Jun 2008)
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Richard Taylor: With some exceptions, I have been desperately disappointed with this debate, which instead of being a celebration of 60 years of the health service, has descended into party political bickering. I was hoping, as there was no time limit, to devote a little time to reminiscing. I have been in the health service more than 50 years-much longer than most other people here-so I can...

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Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Co-payments (17 Jun 2008)
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Richard Taylor: I also welcome the review that the Secretary of State has announced. Will he ensure that, in the deliberation, the needs of the silent voices - those who cannot afford the extra payments-are not forgotten?

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Opposition Day - [14th Allotted Day]: Polyclinics (17 Jun 2008)
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Richard Taylor: May I begin by declaring that I am a member of the British Medical Association and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians? I am not speaking in order to give any official message from either of those organisations, however; I am speaking entirely on my own behalf, and on behalf of my constituents, local GPs and NHS professionals who have spoken to me. The debate has produced a huge...

speaker: Richard Taylor : 1 Written Answer
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Written Answers - Health: Polyclinics (16 Jun 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the decision to have a polyclinic in a primary care trust area is a decision to be made locally.

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Written Answers - Health: Junior Doctors: Accommodation (3 Jun 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether free accommodation is provided for foundation year one doctors who are on-call at night; whether it will be provided from August 2008; and if he will make a statement.

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Written Answers - Health: Arthritis: Health Services (16 May 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to ensure that the particular continuing health and social care needs of people with arthritis are taken into account in (a) Lord Darzi's review of the NHS and (b) the World Class Commissioning initiative.

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Orders of the Day: Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (12 May 2008)
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Richard Taylor: May I first record my support for the establishment of a bioethics committee, as has been suggested by the hon. Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) and many other hon. Members? Like other hon. Members, I have received a lot of letters on these issues. Many have been from those who are against the Bill, but I have also had some very strong ones from people asking me to vote in favour of...

Speaker: Richard Taylor : 6 Westminster Hall debates 
[Mr. Roger Gale in the Chair] - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (8 May 2008)
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Richard Taylor: It is a great privilege to follow our Chairman, who is allowing us to get out some quite strong condemnatory reports-not that this is one of the most condemnatory. It is also a huge privilege to speak second, because the Chairman has left us with a little more to say, and I can get in before all my hon. Friends-and I do call them friends-on the Committee. The first matter...

[Mr. Roger Gale in the Chair] - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (8 May 2008)
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Richard Taylor: I thank my friend and medical colleague for that. I absolutely accept that, but things should not be discarded lightly. The Chairman of the Committee mentioned the speed of decisions. In our recommendations 15 and 16, we toyed with the idea of shorter inquiries or evaluation at launch. The Government's response was fairly defensive, but NICE's was rather better. It stated that it was not...

[Mr. Roger Gale in the Chair] - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (8 May 2008)
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Richard Taylor: That is one of the huge difficulties with drugs. Some of their effects-good and bad-are not discovered until a long time after they have been used by hundreds, if not thousands, of people. NICE concluded its response to recommendations 15 and 16 by stating its aim to start assessment when a manufacturer requests marketing authorisation. It said that it might then be able to create...

Written Answers - Health: Bone Diseases (2 Apr 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health_
(1) what representations he has received on behalf of people with ankylosing spondylitis in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement; 
(2) what estimate he has made of the number of people in England who had been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis broken down by (a) strategic health authority and (b) primary care trust area in the...

By Richard Taylor : 1 Commons debate
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Accident and Emergency Departments (12 Mar 2008)
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Richard Taylor: I am grateful for the opportunity to initiate the debate, and I am revelling in the fact that I have three minutes extra, so I do not have to watch the clock. The Minister, whom I am pleased to see in his place, knows that on occasions, even though I sit on the Opposition Benches, I am trying to be helpful to the Government. This is one of those occasions. Everybody admits that some accident...

By Richard Taylor : 1 Westminster Hall debate
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Nursing & Midwifery Council (11 Mar 2008)
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Richard Taylor: I, too, have been approached with very serious allegations about probity and conduct. Whistleblowers are in an awfully difficult position. The person who approached me asked who regulates the regulator, because they have nobody to complain to. 

By Richard Taylor : 4 Westminster Hall debates
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[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] — Electronic Patient Record (21 Feb 2008)
Richard Taylor: I can say this because I do not belong to any party, whereas it might be difficult for others: I am sad that we are having this debate now, because we should have had it in the Committee. From memory, nobody was there to put the case as strongly as the hon. Gentleman has.

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] - Electronic Patient Record (21 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: It is a pleasure to follow the Health Committee's Chairman, the right hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron). He has covered the issues exhaustively, but he has left a few points for some of us to add. I have been on the Health Committee for quite some time and I thought that I had worked out how the Department arrives at its responses. I thought that if we put all our conclusions and...

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] - Electronic Patient Record (21 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: I was talking about delays with the patient administration system, and was about to mention some of the things that we were told about in the inquiry. We were told that there was some evidence of progress with Cerner, and I am interested in that because I gather that, since then, there has been dissatisfaction in various parts of the south coast and London. I would like to know what the...

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] - Electronic Patient Record (21 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: I find it hard to understand how a meaningful review can take place without at least having the chance of pulling the whole system, which is why I did not want to support it. I am going to come to the other point later on. Obviously, public perception of security has not been helped by recent security breaches in various fields, including the loss of the smartcards. On 4 February, the chief...

Written Answers - Communities and Local Government: Local Authorities: Public Participation (21 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps she is taking to monitor the expenditure of local authorities on LINks; what restrictions there are on the ways in which such local authority money can be spent; and how compliance with such restrictions is monitored by her Department.

Written Answers - Health: National Centre for Involvement (21 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will require the National Centre for Involvement to provide information, advice and learning opportunities to patients, NHS service users and local involvement networks members in relation to improving consultation at national, regional and local levels in the NHS.

Written Answers - Culture Media and Sport: Water Sports: Finance (7 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been spent on the sport of canoeing in the last five years.

Written Answers - Health: Health Services: Public Participation (7 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will increase the budgets for local involvement networks. 

Written Answers - Health: Cancer: Drugs (6 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts in England provide funding for surafenib for patients with (a) advanced renal cell cancer and  (b) liver cancer.

Written Answers - Health: Local Involvement Networks (6 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health  (1)  what steps he plans to take to promote the involvement of patients and the public in monitoring the effectiveness of services provided for the NHS by the  (a) third and  (b) private sector; (2)  if he will ensure that the Local Involvement Network Regulations 2008 include provisions requiring private sector providers of health and social care to...

Written Answers - Health: Local Involvement Networks (6 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to ensure members of local involvement networks (LINKs) are indemnified by his Department in relation to activities undertaken on behalf of a LINk in good faith. 

Oral Answers to Questions - Health: Quality and Outcomes Framework (5 Feb 2008)
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Richard Taylor: What consultation with patients and the public has taken place in the discussions on the GP quality and outcomes framework? 

Written Answers - Health: NHS: Complaints (31 Jan 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many complaints about care in the national health service are under investigation by the Health Service Commissioner; and what the average length of time between receipt of a complaint and publication of a decision on it has been in the last 12 months.

Written Answers - Health: NHS: Complaints (24 Jan 2008)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many complaints about care in the national health service are under investigation by the Healthcare Commission; and what the average length of time between the start of an investigation and the publication of a report on it has been in the last 12 months.

Bill Presented: Topical Debate - Preventive Health Services (10 Jan 2008)
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Richard Taylor: I thank those hon. Members who have spoken recently for accelerating to give me nearly my full time. I understand that the Minister will also be very generous and has said that she can manage with four minutes. I shall try to give her a little longer, but I am grateful for this opportunity. I always enjoy following my friend on the Health Committee, the hon. Member for Dartford (Dr. Stoate),...

Written Answers - Health: Medical Equipment: Incontinence (17 Dec 2007) 
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on the possible effect on UK manufacturing jobs of the price reductions for incontinence and stoma appliances proposed by his Department. 

Written Answers - Health: Nurses: Standards (13 Dec 2007)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the risk of increased patient infections if visits from specialist nurses are capped as proposed in his Department's consultation on Part IX of the Drug Tariff. 

Written Answers - Health: NHS: Finance (12 Dec 2007)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to introduce further NHS Better Care Better Value indicators; which topics are being considered; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers - Health: Nurses: Catheters (12 Dec 2007)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many visits on average a new user of (a) an indwelling catheter and (b) an intermittent catheter will receive from a specialist nurse within the first six months of receiving their prescription. 

Written Answers - Health: Part IX Drug Tariff (10 Dec 2007)
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Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many errors, inaccuracies and omissions were identified by industry within his Department of Health's new part IX drug tariff categories; and if he will make a statement. 

Health Care Prioritisation (3 Dec 2007)
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Richard Taylor: May I first place on record my sincere thanks to hon. Members from both sides of the House and the Officers in the Lobby who virtually led me by the hand to ensure that I was here on time and did not miss a huge opportunity? I believe that I can speak for approximately an hour and 45 minutes, but I reassure you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I, too, would like to get away. I will speak for a little...

Health Care Prioritisation (3 Dec 2007)
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Richard Taylor: I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and I agree with what he says. I have, however, been circumspect in talking about NICE, and I am hoping that our inquiry and the report will address some of those questions, so I will not be drawn into addressing this matter further at present. I was about to explain a little in respect of the cancer reform strategy. In the section on community...

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