Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“And then run with it as the reforming zealot that you are.”

“I feel a bit like in your answers either you go very operational and talk about things that you have seen on an ICB level, or you pull back and you are quite general and then say, “Well, the 10-year plan isn’t in yet.” For the chair of this organisation—the person who is going to deliver the change—I am almost looking …”

“No, for you as chair. What will you have to do to enable the chief exec?”

“I welcome the hon. Member’s interest in the Chagos islands and his desire for detail. It is obviously an issue he is very passionate about, but he has not mentioned it previously in his time in Parliament. I wonder whether, given his desire for detail, he could let us know the names of the four main Chagos islands?”

“In your role as chair, which is obviously different from the chief executive role, your job is to enable the chief executive to make those three shifts. In terms of your leadership position, setting the vision and enabling them to do it, what do you foresee as the big challenges?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I thank the hon. Member for Chichester (Jess Brown-Fuller) for securing this important debate. I should note at the start my officership in the APPG for infant feeding and the APPG on single-parent families. Women’s health is often an already under-pri…”

“Stories of children arriving for lessons hungry are far too common in my constituency and across the country, and the issue was exacerbated by the massive rise in child poverty under the last Government. Because of the actions of this Labour Government, however, my constituency will see pilots in Cornholme junior, infa…”

“The Calder Valley line was listed as a top priority for improvements by Transport for the North’s electrification taskforce 10 years ago, back in 2015, yet my constituents are still waiting for those improvements. Will the Minister commit this Government to delivering the infrastructure for my constituents that the las…”

“Just for the report, is that because we are not training enough people, because not enough people are going into training or because we are not employing enough people?”

“One of the things that came across today was patchy access in the experience of mental health provision. CQC figures show that less than half of those who managed to access mental health provision said they got what they needed. I think it was 39%. Why is that, Lucy?”

“This may be more for Courtney and Harry: are we a little bit too focused on expecting people to be the perfect patients, with no co-occurring conditions and things like that? What kind of models can help us move beyond that?”

“Thank you. I really appreciate you all taking the time to answer my questions.”

“But not the least.”

“Given that the Tory predecessor of the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Ben Obese-Jecty) failed to mention RAAC once, and mentioned Hinchingbrooke hospital only five times in 23 years, does the Minister agree that people in Huntingdon and across the country need a Labour Government committed to rebuilding the NHS, not a Tor…”

“I am going to move us on to workforce strategies, which you just trailed. In that last answer you gave a statistic that I think I saw four of our members writing down. I want to check on that. Did you say that 14% of people who are discharged from hospital have the care packages they need? Is that correct?”

“So 14% of carers didn’t have?”

“To clarify the statistic, because it is the kind of thing that may end up in the report, that is carers feeling they have support, so people may be getting the care package, but the carers do not feel they have the support or an idea of what care they—”

“I would love it if you could send us some further information as to what the 86% looks like, just so that we can get an idea of where we are not getting the care right and what that means in terms of hospital discharge.”

“I am going to move on to the workforce. Skills for Care did a brilliant state of care report last year, which I have brought up at this Committee a few times. One of the things that came out of that was the 8.3% vacancy rate in social care: 131,000 vacancies in adult social care. What is driving those vacancies?”

“My final question is looking at what good examples of retention are. When I ran a care service in Calderdale, we had a small care company—the Equal Care Co-Op—which gave more power to the staff. They also paid slightly higher. They had good retention and some positive stories. Could you leave us with a couple of positi…”