Speeches by Prinsley.

“I would like to ask about the National Centre for VAWG and Public Protection. First of all, is it actually a place? Is it a centre?”

“My sense is that a new organisation has been invented, which is very effective. Do you think the public know about this new organisation, which is so effective and is dealing with violence against women and girls, or is it something that has disappeared into the miasma of government?”

“I just want to come in quickly. We have been talking about the definition of violence against women and girls. There is a clear definition of rape and there must be figures on the number of reported rapes, but we know that many rapes—probably most rapes—are not reported.”

“Can you describe how this centre actually works to deliver the VAWG strategy? What does it do?”

“Where is it and can you describe it?”

“Do you want to come in?”

“When we say we have changed something, we really have changed something, haven’t we? We have invented something new and we need to tell people about it.”

“In our mission to halve violence against women and girls, let’s just talk about, say, rape. Do you think it is realistic to halve the incidence of rape?”

“Okay. How does this thing get funded and does it have a long-term funding plan?”

“Right. If at the beginning of a Parliament we had the figures on the number of rapes that were reported each year, do you think that a measure of success would be, at the end of a Parliament, that the number of reported rates had halved?”

“Perhaps also tell us how you will measure how effective it is.”

“I thank all hon. Members who came to speak in the debate. I particularly thank the hon. Members for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and for Birmingham Perry Barr (Ayoub Khan), who gave very interesting Back-Bench contributions. I also thank the Minister and the Opposition spokespeople—the hon. Members for Sleaford and North H…”

“Sitting suspended.”

“I will wind up, then. I thank everyone very much, and I look forward to seeing success in the future. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House has considered the Foundation Programme and its role in supporting and retaining resident doctors.”

“I heard the same thing; indeed, I met Dr Fletcher from the BMA yesterday myself and heard exactly this story, so the situation is intensely frustrating, but I believe that we can get ourselves back to a position in which an agreement can be reached. My argument this morning is simple. The foundation programme, the firs…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the Foundation Programme and its role in supporting and retaining resident doctors. Thank you, Mrs Barker, for chairing today’s debate. First, I must thank everyone for coming and say something about my interests. As many know, I am an ear, nose and throat surgeon and I hav…”

“I know—it is hard to believe. I was a medical student in Sheffield, and my first jobs were at the Royal Hallamshire hospital and the Northern General hospital. I have fond memories of the time that we started there. There was, for instance, a doctors’ mess with hot food. There was somewhere for us to live; we had resid…”

“Certainly we must address the workload but, as I will reveal later in my speech, there are many things that we can do to help the situation. Let me say a bit about my own experience, which admittedly was a long time ago—”

“I absolutely agree that doctors are only part of a much bigger healthcare system. We certainly need to look after all the people involved in health and social care. Of course, that is more of a problem in geographically remote districts such as the hon. Gentleman’s constituency, where I believe it is difficult to recru…”

“Some time ago, when I came here, I had working with me an intern, Dr Harry Dunn, who was a medical student at Cambridge University. He graduated last year. He came top, not only of the University of Cambridge medical student cohort, but of the whole of the University of Cambridge, so he was the top student of his year.…”