Speeches by Craft.

“Sylvia, you said that it should not just be a tick box but actually immersive. Would that be something along the lines of continual professional development?”

“I am assuming that it would be across the board, so midwives, managers and senior management.”

“Would you imagine an initial, like you said, fairly immersive thing, where you could potentially even say, “I have done this training. I am qualified in this,” but then a continually—”

“There is training that exists, an e-learning package. Have you had any feedback from people who have done the training?”

“I was going to ask how you measure that, but if you are not collecting the data—”

“Would you find it helpful to be able to not just collect end point data, so maternal outcomes, but also things along the way? Janet has spoken at length about that kind of experience, interaction, being treated and consistency of care. Would it be helpful to be able to measure whether women are accessing this along the…”

“I do not think the previous panel would disagree with that—I do not want to put words in their mouths; they are still in the room—but I think they would say that, at the moment, the level of cultural competency training for people who work in the whole maternal space is so very low, and that is having an impact across …”

“Organisations that have given evidence to this Committee, including the previous panel, have called for mandatory training on cultural competency. Indeed, when I asked this question to the previous panel, they were fairly unanimous in their response about whether that would go some way to addressing the concerns around…”

“Would you support mandatory training on cultural competency?”

“One of the concerns that has been raised, particularly by the previous panel, is that there is no mandatory training across the board. Cultural competency is not included on midwifery training programmes. The availability of cultural competency courses in university training courses is fairly low, if it is offered at a…”

“How do you do that?”

“I am glad that the Minister is explaining how capturing feedback and experience is being allowed for in other parts of the Bill. To clarify, in my own head I feel that the clause aims to capture the experience immediately after it has happened, just as hospitals offer women who have just given birth the opportunity to …”

“I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the inclusion of a parent’s details on a child’s birth certificate where that parent has died before the birth of the child; and for connected purposes. For the vast majority of parents, registering the birth of their child is a straightforward…”

“I am equally confused; I did not think we were talking about an amendment. I thought we were talking about a clause. Apologies.”

“Without wanting to sound abrupt, we all have the explanatory notes and are reading them, so in the interests of brevity might the hon. Member consider getting to the point about what he would add to or take away from the Bill? We all know what the clauses aim to do; the Minister has already set that out.”

“Like many Committee members, I was deeply confused about how we were proceeding. On the face of it, the clause broadly seems as if it should be part of any Act about mental health care, including post discharge. I have spoken about my own experience of interacting with the Mental Health Act as it stands. I might have f…”

“As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on British Sign Language, I know that the thousands of BSL first-language speakers in this country are very supportive of the introduction of a new BSL GCSE. However, I understand that progress on that has slightly stalled, so I would be grateful if the Minister could provi…”

“On clause 5(4), the amendment in the other place inserted the phrase “by a constable or other authorised person” which relates specifically to the phrase “unless the patient is immediately restrained from leaving the hospital”. What the hon. Gentleman describes as a level of ambiguity in the subsection allows that to b…”

“There seems to be some circular talk about the level of risk that clinicians and medical professionals can be expected to shoulder. I notice that clause 5(7), inserted in the other place, specifies that they would “not be put at unnecessary risk”. Is there not an inherent risk involved in detaining people who need to b…”

“I rise to speak in support of this important clause, which puts patient experience and individual choice at the heart of treatment. It is a brilliant focus on seeing the individual as a person, and ensuring that they have a strong role to play in deciding their treatment pathway going forward. I very much welcome the d…”