Speeches by George.

“I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who leads me on to my next point. Although he says that we are all in the same boat—if you will pardon the pun, Madam Deputy Speaker—the fact is that we are not. Services in Scotland are very heavily subsidised, as I will explain. When we look for parity and comparability, the services …”

“To a certain extent, the Minister has implied the answer to this, but of course he is well aware that a bus cannot drive between the off-islands and St Mary’s—though there might be some inventive way in which someone could do such a thing. He must accept that if one is looking for parity between the Isles of Scilly and…”

“That is a good segue into my first question. Dr Higginson referred to the impact of the stresses and pressures on staff in previous panel. He said that 90% of senior doctors are saying that the system is unsustainable in the long term. Professor Ranger talked about the impact on nurses. If we are looking at culture and…”

“You are talking about sharing the risk across the hospital, which is certainly something that we learned from the first panel. Are you saying that admission into the hospital is now much smoother because beds are now available as a result of that sense of shared risk? Does that mean that the corridor patient is now in …”

“Dr Higginson also mentioned that his one aim is to ensure that there are sufficient beds within the hospital—that is the block that creates the stress of corridor care and so on. I recollect having big arguments in this place some 20 years ago on the NHS Confederation publishing a document called “Why we need fewer hos…”

“You are obviously doing it right. How are you doing it?”

“I was hoping that we could shift to that.”

“On Monday, it was my privilege to visit the Helston sorting office, where I discovered staff burdened with remote, counterproductive micromanagement of their work and inadequate plans to deal with the inevitability of staff absences. I was distressed to hear them describe that they had been abused and threatened when u…”

“The hon. Member mentioned Storm Goretti. She and I attended the online meeting on storm recovery with Ministers two days after the event. What troubled me in that meeting was the culture that exists among service providers, and indeed Government Departments, of always seeking to reassure Ministers that everything is un…”

“8. What discussions she has had with her counterpart in the Hellenic Republic on the future management of the Parthenon sculptures.”

“I am grateful to the Minister for that response, and I should declare an interest as the chair of the British Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures over the last 20 years. The British Museum’s planned redevelopment will necessitate its board agreeing the relocation of many of its exhibits, inclu…”

“Type 1?”

“Are you saying that it is an incurable disease?”

“Emily, you called for better data collection and monitoring of services in the evidence you provided. What would that look like? What would you be looking for to advise you, as someone wanting to invest in solutions?”

“So you are recommending that we establish a national obesity treatment registry. How long would that take? What would it involve? Can you see a way of overcoming this, and is the registry the method that you believe could give us the data that we need?”

“You have been advising in this area for many years, and you said a moment ago that every programme appears to have a different approach to data collection. You have also referred to the approximately five-year relapse process when the person undertakes either a 12-week or a 12-month course. Isn’t it a problem that, on …”

“I feel, Claudia, that you are champing at the bit—that you are keen to put me right on the inadequacy of the data.”

“I welcome the statement, and I welcomed the opportunity to meet the Minister to discuss these issues. A lot of people are talking about either reopening post offices—indeed, the Post Office want to see them reopen—or avoiding closure, and he knows that it all comes down to remuneration. As he will have heard, a post of…”

“We have data on the health of the nation, our population and the level of obesity, but we do not appear to have satisfactory data to tell us what works. Why is that, Susan? Do you have any idea?”

“Minor injuries units are being phased out as are urgent treatment centres such as the brilliant one at West Cornwall hospital in my constituency—its hours were cut under the Conservatives, and have not been restored. Those units clearly help to take the pressure off ambulance and emergency services, so what will Minist…”