Speeches by Dixon.

“I really want to press you on how you are mitigating the financial hardship. I am hearing that you have had to make some prioritisation, clearly, for people who you have put in this priority category. But it matters, too, for somebody who has reduced their working hours and was expecting to be able to defer and receive…”

“As we have said, even before the transition many MPs were well aware of the problems that people who have worked in public service their whole lives were finding with MyCSP. There was a promise that things would get better, yet things have got a lot worse for many of them. I took part in a Westminster Hall debate with …”

“Q7. Last week I met Lleyton, a T-level construction student at Bradford college. He was working on the remediation of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete at Airedale hospital. In the last few years, Bradford has made tremendous progress in reducing the rate of young people not in employment, education or training, s…”

“Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that under the previous Government, light-touch regulation left our infrastructure crumbling? It is right that there will be asset mapping under the new proposals, so that we can finally know the state of the infrastructure and whether these investments are actually fixing the le…”

“I am sure that the Minister is aware that it is the National Year of Reading. On the wider opportunities to get our kids off their screens, would she commend the work of the National Literacy Trust in trying to restore the joy of reading, and perhaps share her favourite childhood book with us? Mine was “The Very Hungry…”

“I draw my hon. Friend’s attention to Born in Bradford, an internationally recognised research cohort study. It has just launched the “In Real Life” trial with children in Bradford aged 12 to 15 to test whether reducing their social media use will reduce anxiety and improve their sleep and their relationship with their …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Jeremy. I congratulate the hon. Member for West Dorset (Edward Morello) on securing this important debate. My constituents in Shipley, with the lovely River Wharfe and River Aire flowing through, have been outraged at the levels of water pollution in them. They face h…”

“Will the Minister assure the House that the regional planning for water catchments will have a strong citizen voice embedded in it, as well as drawing on evidence and expertise?”

“The Public Accounts Committee recently had a hearing on environmental regulation with the Environment Agency and Natural England. Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that the transition to a new regulator is a huge undertaking and that there is a risk while it is being set up? We must not take our eyes off the enf…”

“The risk of that, surely, is that you end up with nurses sitting behind computer screens looking at patients. How do you maintain human contact? What might be more efficient may be detrimental to other outcomes.”

“I am hoping that whoever succeeded me as the chief analyst will be doing their job to ensure that all the modelling is properly quality assured. It would be useful to have a note to understand exactly what the QA is for that demand and capacity modelling, given how critical it is. We know that sometimes those assumptio…”

“We hear a lot about optimism bias. How can you be sure that you are stress-testing the assumptions in your capacity model and not being overly optimistic? We have seen before that we do not get the shift left into the community. What stress-testing are you doing to make sure you do not have an optimism bias within your…”

“Paul, do you want to add anything about how you are handling the programme dependencies between your programme and the neighbourhood programme?”

“Will capital funding be prioritised for community capacity where it has to be brought onstream in order for the new hospitals to operate?”

“I want to pick up on another aspect of the future demand projections: the assumptions about bed capacity and the shift to the community. The number of overnight beds is assumed to be an average of 6% for hospitals built under 2.0. There are questions locally about investment, for example in a Keighley health and wellbe…”

“Thank you, Chair.”

“I very much look forward to seeing the new Airedale hospital. I hope to be a patient there one day.”

“On futureproofing, we are not necessarily very good—or we have not been—in the NHS at looking into the crystal ball. Some of the hospitals will not come on stream until 2036 and beyond. From locking down a design in 2026 to the thing opening in 2036 and hopefully still being operational in 2056 and beyond, are you buil…”

“The Report mentions a “fully assured design in April 2026 following market testing”. Is that market testing with patients and professionals—the people who will have to work in it and be treated in it—or market testing with the builders?”

“That is encouraging. My colleague asked about the impact of the delays in getting Hospital 2.0. I want to probe a bit further about the Hospital 2.0 design. There were a number of elements to it—100% single-room occupancy and so on. To what extent was the 2.0 design really going to deliver for the patient of the future…”