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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:

On Saturday 23 April 2022, I was very pleased to attend an inter-faith community event hosted by Minhaj ul Quran on Woodwards Road, where different faiths were brought together to share a meal. 

In light of the numerous statements made by the Prime Minster to the House about his knowledge of events reported to have taken place in Downing Street and the Cabinet Office during the coronavirus lockdowns, events which both he and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have been issued fines by the Metropolitan Police for attending, the House  debated the Motion tabled in the name of Keir Starmer and supported by the  opposition party leaders.  The motion asks the Privileges Committee to investigate whether said statements made by the Prime Minster deliberately misled MPs, which would amount to contempt of Parliament.