Speeches by Stafford.

“Obviously, all your roles are at least a symbol that supermarkets seem to be taking this issue seriously. Going back to the consumer-led or supermarket-led factors around healthier choices specifically, how do you get feedback from customers about whether you are meeting their healthier demands and needs? Where do you …”

“Thank you. Briefly, we had the example of a lack of chocolate biscuits, which I felt very personally. Have any other campaigns that the other stores have run perversely or conversely not worked, like the example of chocolate biscuits? Have any of you done trials that did not work and where consumer behaviour did not ch…”

“Given that you have discussed it before, I will not ask any more about it. Finally, what I am getting from you is that the key thing for your consumers, whether you are talking about general food buying or specifically health food buying, is choice. Does anyone disagree with that?”

“Price and choice?”

“Apologies for being late. I would like to note that when I went to my Sainsbury’s on Water Lane in Farnham, they told me that the item most bought by my constituents there was the humble red pepper—so someone is doing something right. I want to ask questions about consumer choice. You can either take the slightly catas…”

“Thank you. Liz?”

“Can I just interrupt? Someone mentioned Red Bull earlier. If your customers want to buy Red Bull, do you see it as your responsibility to tell them not to?”

“Thank you.”

“If you have shareable data on that, it would be interesting to see it.”

“At the heart of the Bill is a simple test: does the Bill improve care for patients? Every delay in training, every cancelled clinic and every rota gap caused by workforce instability ultimately lands on the patient. It means longer waits, greater travel distances and, in too many cases, care that comes too late. I was …”

“The Secretary of State mentioned the need for more medical staff across the world and, of course, in this country as well. At the general election, he pledged to double the number of medical school places by 2030. Is that still a commitment, and how far has he got with it?”

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“The Home Secretary quoted Sir Robert Peel at the top of her speech, saying that he was “speaking at this very Dispatch Box”. She clearly has not realised that those Dispatch Boxes were donated by New Zealand after the second world war. Even if she was talking more figuratively, this whole Chamber was destroyed in 1834 …”

“The Minister is being extraordinarily generous with her time, but I do not want her to miss the opportunity to respond to the important question raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Dr Spencer) about a Surrey mayor. Will she confirm whether we will get a mayor in Surrey before the end of thi…”

“From what the Minister says, it sounds as if she accepts that the remaining debt is still unsustainable to be dealt with at a local level. Is she teasing us with a future announcement of further moneys, or is it more of a general ambition?”

“T7. Last week, the Government briefing suggested that the security services were “relaxed” about the proposed Chinese mega-embassy, yet this week, we have learned that MI5 has been asked to reroute sensitive financial cables because of it. Will the Minister for Security explain how both those statements can be true, an…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his impassioned and powerful speech on this matter, with which I wholeheartedly agree. I think he is being somewhat polite in the way he describes what this unitary authority is going to be. Essentially, if it is saddled with the debt from Woking and a number of other boroughs, it will essent…”

“So you do know if they are registered with a regulator in another country.”

“But it also says that it is still an area of risk.”

“I understand the limits on what you know and what you do not know, but could part of your requirements be that a doctor must tell you if they are registered with another regulator—is that something that is listed in your rules at the moment?”