Speeches by McIntyre.

“Where are the examples of good practice? If we are looking for a good example of what we should be doing nationally, what would you say?”

“Laura, do you have any views on that?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I thank the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for securing the debate and for recognising the contribution of our Glorious Glosters. On 1 October 1950, 890 men from the Gloucestershire Regiment left England for Korea. …”

“Thank you very much.”

“That leads neatly into my next question: what is your reaction to the recently published food strategy, and how confident are you that it will succeed in improving access to affordable healthy food?”

“I am conscious that I have only two minutes before I have to hand back to the Chair, but you have teed up my next question again, Anna—thank you for that. Could you, in about a minute each, give a couple of concrete actions from the strategy that you would like to see the Government take in the next 18 months?”

“To bring it back a step, I would be interested to know how both your organisations define healthy food. The focus from the Government has been on HFSS. That seems a bit of a blunt instrument in that you could have an avocado, which is high in fat, seemingly flagging up red, but KFC has just developed a non-HFSS burger …”

“Evette, this question is directed at you. I am a type 2 diabetic, diagnosed earlier this year. There is an awful lot of information thrown at you when you first get a diabetes diagnosis about diet and what you should and should not be eating, which can be quite overwhelming. What support have you had about managing you…”

“As you will know, diet is such an important part of managing the condition and keeping yourself as healthy as you can be when living with diabetes. As a parent who is trying to think about how you feed your children, do you find that your personal needs are getting pushed down in terms of priorities? Is it harder to ma…”

“Q6. Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the battle of the Imjin river, where the 29th Infantry Brigade’s last stand prevented the capture of Seoul during the Korean war. That hill is now called Gloster Hill as a proud testament to the incredible bravery of one of those battalions, our glorious Glosters. Will the Pr…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Allin-Khan. I thank the 393 Gloucester constituents who signed the petition and all those who have contacted me over the past year about SEND provision in our city. Far too many children with SEND in my city did not start school with their peers last week, and many of …”

“In Gloucester, thanks to the Government investing £1 million in neighbourhood policing and a further £1 million in its safer streets initiative, we have seen more police on our streets this summer, leading to an increase in arrests and seizures of illegal e-bikes and vapes. Some of that funding is to come to an end thi…”

“20. What recent progress her Department has made on tackling antisocial behaviour.”

“I am relying on colleagues’ expertise but talking therapies are not available for many people with SMIs. Bipolar and schizophrenia, for example, are often excluded from them. If we are relying on things like talking therapies, how do we broaden the access to them? Is it even appropriate to do so?”

“Just to build on that last question, in terms of healthcare being out in the community, you said you wanted this to be a one-door, wraparound service. One of the most successful aspects of the community mental health hubs programme that we saw on our visit to Trieste was the fact that it was not just contained within a…”

“Thank you—that is very comprehensive. To come back to the point that you made about waiting times, in 2022 NHS England consulted on waiting times standards for community mental health. Nothing seems to have happened since that consultation, so will those waiting times standards be implemented by services? If so, when?”

“Going back to the point you made about waiting times, if we are measuring them and publishing them, why can’t we have a standard for community mental health waiting times?”

“It strikes me that if we want to have parity of esteem with physical health, it would seem an obvious step to indicate that to patients by giving them a standard that they should expect their service to perform to. What impact do you expect the modern service framework to have on community mental health services for pe…”

“Taking this back to my constituents over the weekend, what impact will they see in practical terms as a result of the framework?”

“When do we expect it to be published?”