Speeches by Caliskan.

“I want to ask a little more about the national action plan. You may have already addressed this, but it would be helpful to get a bit more of a sense of your assessment of how well the UK has made progress on human health alongside animal health, food and the environment as a whole. Clive Betts asked earlier whether we…”

“I am not trying to be provocative. I am just trying to get a sense of how those things not being in place helps this area.”

“I do not want to be provocative in what I am about to say, but I think it is an important point to make. It goes back to your previous point, Professor Whitty, about the need for the basics to be done better in the healthcare system and the NHS in order to be able to tackle the AMR challenge. Things like beds in corrid…”

“How do you test how prepared the UK is? There might be indicators that the Department is looking at as part of the process of putting it on a risk register and then managing that risk. Could you give the Committee a bit more of an understanding of how you test the UK’s preparedness for a scenario in which something mov…”

“Are those the local resilience plans?”

“That is really helpful, because one of my sub-questions was about the decision to move something from chronic to acute, and to what extent it is about the prevalence of the disease, if you like, versus its severity on an individual. Millions of people might have something, but that in itself does not give it an acute c…”

“You have answered this, but just for absolute clarity, the Report talks about workshops that were held in 2024 for local resilience forums post some of the covid inquiry work that had been done. We know that the local resilience forums were so important during the covid pandemic, but the exercises that were held in 202…”

“How do you know that 20% of antibiotics being prescribed through primary healthcare is inappropriate?”

“I bet they stopped after that.”

“I want to ask about environmental factors that might impact AMR resistance. How worried are you about water companies dumping sewage?”

“My second question was going to be about what impact that might have, but it is not a helpful direction.”

“I thank the Chancellor for her statement. I represent Barking, which she will know has some of the highest deprivation figures in the country, and where 20% of working adults have no qualifications whatsoever. Does she agree that it is only by our creating jobs and those people getting the qualifications that they need…”

“Does the shadow Minister recognise that, under the previous Government, communities were hindered in being able to shape proposed development by only a third of local authorities having up-to-date local plans?”

“My local authority has committed to building homes and it has a good record. One barrier to being able to deliver homes at speed is the fact that we see infrastructure delayed year after year. With the Bill’s proposals to allow CPOs and land assemblies to happen far quicker, we will see homes built at pace in a way tha…”

“The hon. Gentleman gives me an opportunity to highlight the fact that my local authority has been building homes far faster than most local authorities across the country. The general slowing in the delivery of housing over the past two years is absolutely to do with the fact that the previous Government crashed the ec…”

“I declare an interest as the vice-president of the Local Government Association. I support the Bill because we must do everything we can to deliver the building of more housing in this country. As the Member for Barking, I see and hear at first hand the impact of the housing crisis. Every week, I meet constituents who …”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that open green spaces are not always the most biodiverse, and that we need a more joined-up approach to providing investment in those spaces?”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his speech and for highlighting the gaps that exist in local government. I am sure he will recognise that, as the Local Government Association and the National Housing Federation have said, only 80% of local authorities have the capacity at the moment—in fact, it could be far less.[Official R…”

“I thank the Foreign Secretary and his team for what I know are personal diplomatic efforts to play the UK Government’s part in making sure that we can return to a ceasefire. However, in the past few days, hundreds more women and children have been killed in Gaza. We have now had confirmation from the Foreign Secretary …”

“On that very point, our pre-panel members were very clear that the ages between 10 and 20 years old are determining ages. There is a clear linkage between those ages and the stats around violence against women and girls, both as victims and perpetrators. What Ms Owen has talked about, in many ways, is part of that cult…”