Speeches by McIntyre.

“One of the challenges on the science, as I understand it, is that quite a lot of the studies that say that ultra-processing is not a problem have been funded by the food industry. Isn’t that correct?”

“Just to move on, Liz, I appreciate that Aldi does not do online shopping, so it is a bit of an unfair example—although two of the top three are beer and wine, which I think is a little bit problematic, but for a whole different reason. Looking at price reduction promotions, I have called out the fact that chicken dippe…”

“I want to come back to a point you made, Beth, about people not wanting to be told what they are doing by their supermarket—again, sorry Liz, but this does not really apply to Aldi, as you do not gather the same consumer data that the other three competitors do. You probably have more data than anybody else in the coun…”

“Fair enough.”

“But that’s on the front page. When you go on to groceries and on to offers, you have Valentine’s day, Weetabix, and then four for three on chicken dippers and potato waffles. There is a bit for salmon, but for quite a lot of my constituents, a four-pack of boneless salmon fillets is beyond them at the moment, given the…”

“Shouldn’t that be on the home page?”

“Moving on to Asda, to be fair, you have got potatoes and apples on your rollback page, when you click through, but do you not see that there’s a problem with all these products being front and centre, when we have one the highest childhood obesity rates in the world?”

“As my previous career was in advising businesses up and down the country, I take some issue with the hon. Lady’s point that there is no experience among Labour Members. She says that taxes, particularly the rise in national insurance, are causing the rise in youth unemployment, but does she know at what level of income…”

“I am sure your PR teams will get a bit of a headache this morning. I’m going on to price promotion and how healthy foods fit into that. Without wanting to go across the whole panel, can we all broadly agree that you would say that non-HFSS foods are broadly seen as healthy by all your supermarkets—not high in fat, salt…”

“I have just been doing a bit of online shopping—Aldi does not do online, but we will come to you in a moment. Tesco’s 4 for 3 on your favourite frozen products is on your offers of the week. They are Birds Eye chicken dippers, Aunt Bessie’s golden Yorkshires and Birds Eye potato waffles. Sainsbury’s top offers of the w…”

“You mentioned reformulation earlier. It is great that we are bringing out sugar, but what are we replacing it with? All the science in this area suggests that people need to eat more wholefoods and more fruit and vegetables because the fibre in that is better. We need to eat more basic food—I think Chris van Tulleken r…”

“You are not defecting?”

“I welcome this legislation. Does the Secretary of State agree with me that the fact that the Government have listened to the concerns of resident doctors about training places, and have acted at pace to bring forward the legislation, shows that we as a Government are committed to fixing the problems left behind by the …”

“I note that Reform Members have already made it to the pub ahead of the statement, perhaps to celebrate the latest defection from the Conservative party, but I thank the Minister for today’s statement. Since I got elected last year, I have been running a campaign to open up our empty shops in Gloucester and show that w…”

“Roughly, what percentage of that 1,000 had interim orders placed on their licence to practise?”

“There are 13,000 concerns, but we have agreed that there is a high bar for referral to the GMC in the first place.”

“How many investigations did you start in the last year?”

“We can come to that in a moment, but I am particularly interested in the interim orders for now. Do you have a rough percentage on that? I appreciate that you might not have the specific figures, but anecdotally, what percentage of the 1,000 who are investigated have interim orders placed on them?”

“How many of those cases resulted in a restriction on practice or a suspension of duties pending investigation?”

“Yes.”