Speeches by George.

“As you say, although Lansley might well have had these plans in advance, the coalition agreement in fact announced that there would be no top-down reorganisation at the time. But moving on, the public and patients will be bemused by this, will they not? They are not as concerned about the backroom plumbing and wiring o…”

“You were saying earlier that you keep in mind the Francis report. One of the things in the Francis report was that any major reorganisation should be subject to a risk and impact assessment. You say that you are confident it will not have an impact. Has any impact or risk assessment been undertaken? If not, when will i…”

“Finally, you seem to at least keep the door open with regard to the possibility of PFI within the capital spend. Now that you have Alan Milburn, who is an evangelist for PFI in some people’s minds, where are you on that? Are there not lessons that you surely will have learned from the catastrophic impact that has had o…”

“So, learning lessons, and hopefully there is still the institutional memory to learn those lessons.”

“3. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of her tax policies on investment in second homes.”

“I am grateful to the Minister for that response, but I believe we can go further, because this is not about the politics of envy but about the politics of social justice. In Cornwall, it cannot be right that through the small business rate relief system, over £500 million of taxpayers’ money has gone into the pockets o…”

“Or randomised trials?”

“Is the 50% split, in terms of the resource going into treatment, the right level? I ask because it sounds to me like there is a lot of experimentation going on within the treatment itself.”

“Sorry, which guidelines?”

“In the last 20 years.”

“I just want to ask a more broadbrush and perhaps ultra-naive question—this is not even going out to the helicopter view; it is possibly satellite level. Where does gambling sit within the range of comparative addictions that exist? Sam, from your perspective, why should we pay particular attention to the addiction of g…”

“In view of the time, I will direct this question to Henrietta. There has already been a reference to the NICE guidelines, which were published only a couple of months ago. Are they sufficient? Are they welcomed? And if there are issues about the implementation of those guidelines, what are those challenges and how can …”

“In terms of the population of people who are suffering from this addiction, what proportion overall are seeking to access treatment at the moment?”

“I understand that, but there is still a lot of uncertainty as to which is most effective in terms of treatment.”

“Finally, you mentioned the wealth of money coming in through the levy; are you saying that the resource is sufficient for this? Is there sufficient resource for those people who need to access treatment and support?”

“I want to go back to the questions from the right hon. Members for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) and for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart), and indeed the question I asked the Minister the last time this issue was raised in the House. The Minister is well aware that what we are talking about is primarily a U…”

“We can all see the discomfort of the Minister in having to embroider language, referring merely to the risk of the breach of international law and not speaking as plainly on behalf of our country as many Members would wish him to speak. Of course, we all want the hostages to be freed, just as we want the 2 million host…”

“I am sorry to make another intervention on the hon. Gentleman—my neighbour in Cornwall. He is probably aware that I spent hundreds of hours in this House on this matter before the 2004 Act; I was pleased that in spite of all the intimidation and threats that I received at the time, the Act still went through. The point…”

“I am not a fisheries scientist, but a lot is known about the maximum sustainable yield and the recruitment of each of those species that are relevant for commercial fisheries, as well as about the length of life and when species reach sexual maturity. It is therefore surprising that scientists cannot provide some proje…”

“We have had a very engaging and thoughtful debate, as the Minister said. In the small amount of time remaining, rather than going through each of the contributions made by the hon. Members for Dumfries and Galloway (John Cooper), for Strangford (Jim Shannon), for Gordon and Buchan (Harriet Cross), for Great Grimsby and…”