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On Tuesday 26 April 2022, the Judicial Review and Courts Bill returned to the Commons to allow us to vote on amendments made by the Lords.
On Tuesday 26th April 2022, the Government responded to an Urgent Question in the House to ask the Prime Minister whether he would make a statement on his recent visit to India, as would be conventional following significant visits abroad.
The Health and Care Bill puts into legislation measures in the 2019 NHS Long Term Plan and the 2021 White Paper "Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all". It would develop the 42 existing Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) by creating an Integrated Care Board (ICB) and an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) as statutory bodies in each ICS area. The ICB will lead on integration between NHS bodies and the ICP will focus on integration between the NHS, local government, and other providers.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill was returned to the Commons by the Lords on Wednesday 21 April 2022, so that we could vote on the Lords' amendments. This is the third time that the Lords have sent these amendments to the Commons, demonstrating the seriousness of their concerns over the risk the Bill poses to democratic principles.
I tabled three Written Parliamentary Questions regarding the Horizon scandal, which resulted in 736 members of staff at the Post Office being prosecuted over 14 years for alleged crimes which were in fact attributable to the newly installed computer system, Horizon. My Questions were:
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