Speeches by George.

“You have, good; okay.”

“I understand that, but is anything being done to better utilise the available capacity? That is the question.”

“There are good examples.”

“I have a very quick yes/no question. How much of the PFI legacy estate is on your books, or is it all held by ICBs?”

“In many circumstances there will be an external organisation, say a community organisation or village hall. The Committee will be visiting west Cornwall next week and will see an example where a community CIC has delivered a building it leases to a GP practice: Cober Valley Health. It is a brilliant building. Is there …”

“A lot of communities are concerned if NHS Prop Co own the building, because they fear that at some stage it might be sold and that money would then go to the centre, whereas if it is locally owned at least they can recirculate the money.”

“Moving slightly away from the estate and buildings themselves, you described earlier, Beccy, what neighbourhood health might be deemed to be: preventing people, effectively, from going into hospital. So far no one has talked about the role of the private sector; in other words, nursing and residential homes, and privat…”

“I am very interested in better understanding the profit and risk-sharing elements of the development and construction side of all this work. There are certain projects that I have seen where—how can I put it?—the public sector takes the risks and the private sector takes the profit. When development budgets are being b…”

“Please send them in.”

“I have listened carefully. The Minister knows full well that committing to spend 3% or 3.5% tomorrow does not mean that the Government cannot commit to commissioning that expenditure now. He is aware that the delivery pipeline can often take five to 10 years in any case, and therefore the defence investment plan become…”

“Addressing the issue of delayed discharge from hospital, I am aware that in many parts of the country there is spare capacity within the nursing and residential care home sector, but the commissioners are not keen to discharge there because they deem that the sector is not particularly good at reablement. Therefore, on…”

“I absolutely agree. What worries us most is the fact that parents have to be sharp-elbowed enough to take on the tribunal system, which is no mean feat. What worries me is how many other parents do not have the confidence to challenge decisions, to use the tribunal system, to make a complaint to the ombudsman or to use…”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—in fact, I made a number of interventions in place of my speech. I wanted to respond to the hon. Member for West Lancashire (Ashley Dalton), because she was making a very strong case about the need to ensure that these reforms are forced through. The three tests that the hon. Member for …”

“I am very grateful to the hon. Member for giving way, and congratulate her on having been a great Health Minister—I was sorry that she stood aside. She will be aware that there is a party whose Members are not present this evening. A lot of people in the media are suggesting that they will form the next Government, but…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, a fellow member of the Health and Social Care Committee, for giving way. Is he not making two contradictory points, however? He says on the one hand that it should be legally enforceable—a point with which I entirely agree, particularly as nearly 99% of tribunal appeals are partiall…”

“Do you have the resources to act as the gatekeeper to your own standards?”

“It is effectively a kitemark that they can put against their name?”

“All right. Just coming back to the differentiation, you are a practising GP and therefore you will have patients coming to see you through your surgery who will be eligible for NHS treatment and are able or unable to obtain that treatment. What barriers stand in their way meaning they might seek a private digital provi…”

“We will come on to regulation in a moment, but just in terms of your modus operandi, have you considered applications for membership and rejected them so far?”