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“No, I have probably used pejorative terms.”

“Yes, there are gradations.”

“You also gave figures on the reduction in care home beds and so on. Were you able to disaggregate between nursing care and residential care? Which one is experiencing the greatest decline?”

“What assurance can the Minister give farmers in my constituency? A site of special scientific interest has recently been designated in the Penwith area, which is supported by a recent designation of landscape recovery. We now seem to be in a position where there will be no support for that at all. How will my farmers a…”

“Surely the Minister understands that if a club such as the Cornish Pirates were to fold, that responsibility to the taxpayer would not be served, because that debt would be unpaid, so it is far better for her to intervene and assist those clubs to overcome that problem.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I congratulate the hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth (Perran Moon) on raising this issue. He also represents Hayle, where I live and which used to be in the St Ives constituency, where it should be, really. Nevertheless I congratulate him on securing th…”

“The hon. Member makes a powerful point about the impact of the way in which the covid loans were provided to championship clubs. He will be aware that many of those clubs are calling on Ministers to intervene on Sport England to ensure that the repayment schedule for the loans is rescheduled to enable those clubs to ac…”

“The hon. Member is making a powerful case for reform and review. This morning, the Health and Social Care Committee was looking at the very issue of delayed discharge of medically fit patients. Does he not accept that we need more integration? If only a quarter of those delayed discharges are down to a lack of social c…”

“Other than the Minister’s response to the excellent question from the right hon. Member for North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse), I strongly welcome both the tone and content of the Minister’s answers. It is clear that there is no justification for the vindictive and counterproductive actions of the Israeli Government,…”

“10. What steps she is taking to help ensure that levels of funding to local government are sufficient to fund public services.”

“I am grateful to the Minister for that response. He will be aware that since the Conservatives took control of Cornwall council four years ago, they have transformed that authority from being financially sound to staring down the barrel of bankruptcy. Cornwall is a rural authority with urban levels of deprivation and a…”

“I warmly congratulate the Prime Minister on his actions and his leadership in recent days, and, indeed, on his stamina here this afternoon. Apart from Putin’s puppets who scarpered from the Chamber more than an hour ago, the House knows full well that support for Ukraine is essential to maintaining the rules-based worl…”

“You commented on the 10-year plan, which is not published yet, and the three shifts. You have been critical about the lack of progress that has been made on the three shifts. Obviously, they have only just been announced, but there has been an underlying desire to achieve those three shifts. Unarguably, they are desira…”

“Thank you very much.”

“This is almost parallel to the question that Pauline asked earlier. For providers who have a foot in both camps, providing both elective care in the NHS and private care, do you think that that can be managed? There is certainly a lot of unease in the system about how that is currently handled and managed, both ethical…”

“Can I move you on to your experience and an area of political contentiousness that certainly bedevils debate here—that is, the role of the private sector? You had 19 years in McKinsey; one may say that is coming from the dark side into the NHS. To what extent do you recognise the potential risks of the way in which the…”

“There are challenges ahead.”

“Right. But you know that the pressure at the moment is very much on acute care, with substantial delayed discharges, corridor care and ambulances queuing outside emergency departments. There will be a lot of resistance to any suggestion that the leadership of NHS England is going to withdraw still further resources fro…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz. I thoroughly endorse the remarks of the hon. Member for Epping Forest and the questions he raised. I will make three quick remarks, the first of which is to embellish his point about whether the figure in the regulations takes sufficient account of anticipated …”

“The Minister is certainly right, providing the investigation was on sound grounds. The worry was always that the investigation may identify a supplier simply by doing it, and that the anonymity intended when an intelligence-driven inquiry or investigation was generated may uncover that particular supplier. Therefore, a…”