Speeches by Dixon.

“Does that lead, effectively, to there being a perpetual qualification relating to this, but there is nothing more proportionate—which is your term, Conrad—to do?”

“Where are we with FE colleges? Are we in a similar position to have sector accounting and transparent—”

“When will your pilot conclude?”

“I commend hon. Members for their contributions. Would the hon. Member join me in congratulating organisations such as Remembering Srebrenica, which has done so much to remember those Muslim boys and men killed during the Bosnian war, which is now some 30 years ago—we will be remembering that anniversary this year—and t…”

“Okay. And at that point you will take a view as to whether a similar methodology to academies could be implemented.”

“Moving on to the issues around liabilities, the WGA has about £4.9 trillion of total liabilities. A very significant proportion are pensions. I would be interested to see the split between the funded and the effectively unfunded pension liabilities that the WGA exposes. Some written evidence on this from the Institute …”

“This is a similar point on pensions. Obviously, actuarial assumptions—in particular, things like assumptions about life expectancy—can also make a very significant difference. In terms of the assumptions that underpin this in the WGA, how they have changed, if at all, and do they materially affect the assumptions about…”

“Colleagues will know that I put forward a reasoned amendment on Second Reading. In that amendment, and in my speech in that debate, I set out some of my concerns about how the private Member’s Bill process does not allow for sufficient scrutiny to develop complex legislation on such a sensitive matter. Indeed, such a o…”

“Thank you to both the witnesses. I declare a conflict of interest: I have known Professor Everington in a professional capacity for some years. Something we have not touched on is the fact that NHS England is spending a lot of money on some national programmes, such as weight management diabetes prevention programmes. …”

“Okay. I will encourage our witnesses to be brief in their answers.”

“Thank you very much, Chair. Before I get into questioning, I will declare a potential conflict of interest: I worked at the Department of Health with Jonathan earlier in my career, before coming to this place. I will pick up on the issues of the data and the evidence base. As you might have envisaged, as I am guesting …”

“But you are not routinely—”

“It would be useful to understand whether that is going to be part of this review you are talking about in response to the NAO and what the timelines would be. It seems very difficult for you to drill into best practice if you do not actually have data on who is performing well on a real-time basis, as opposed to these …”

“Does that include all the costs of the follow-up?”

“Coming to some of the data around integration. You talked about the lack of collection of data but also the sharing of that data. That needs to be on who are you inviting, who has then subsequently attended and what follow-up they receive. Will you be able to track that right through to what the outcomes are as a resul…”

“In the NAO report, it specifically mentions this data set from CVDPREVENT. In addition, we heard from our earlier witnesses about the potential for patients to input data through Accurx, which I believe is quite prevalent within general practice. We also heard about other tools that would help primary care to target ei…”

“Can we link any information on Health Checks into it, so the sort of thing that you had to commission in 2021, and was very laborious, could be embedded within that audit? Then we would be able to understand, on an ongoing basis, the value of people having had or not had a Health Check.”

“To come to Dr de Gruchy, you have talked a lot about what more could be done to understand uptake and the different approaches, and about workplace and digital as new areas. I encourage you to think about jobcentres to reach some of these people. But there is no point identifying the risk factors if nothing happens as …”

“Is there any link between those effective programmes, which you are spending money on and which are demonstrating benefit, and getting people whose risks are identified through Health Checks on to them? I am concerned that those things—”

“So that is one of the referrals. If there is data on the numbers going out of Health Checks into some of those programmes, or on what percentage of people on those programmes have come from Health Checks, it would be useful for the Committee to understand the relationship between them. We are looking at a 10-year plan.…”