Speeches by Gilmour.

“I do not mind—I mean, it is for all of them, really. It is just common sense.”

“I think you are all missing something, and I am famously bad at maths; it took me three attempts to pass my O-level maths. But given that a pitiful 6% of the NHS budget is spent on primary care, are you at all surprised that prevention is somewhere further down the list than you would want it to be? Ten minutes with yo…”

“It is the status quo, really.”

“No.”

“Yes.”

“Going back to the issue of pavements, if at the moment you are looking only at road surfaces, there is a very real danger that the pavements and cycleways are not in a condition that supports the objectives, which are your objectives, on accessibility and active travel. We have received some information from the Nation…”

“I am getting quite frustrated by this burden business, because, in my mind, you are accountable for the state of the roads, ultimately. You cannot keep on saying that it is up to local authorities and that we have to put the burden on them. I am a new MP. I am an MP for a Devon and Somerset constituency. There are road…”

“I am flabbergasted. I find the whole thing flabbergasting, to be honest. I am learning.”

“I understand the statutory responsibility that local government has, but it is a very difficult thing to explain to the people who pay their taxes.”

“Certainly in my constituency, to use the word “diabolical” for the roads would be quite kind.”

“Other than the fact that I try to use the A303, no. My constituency is Tiverton and Minehead, and the A303 is one of the roads that one might choose to get to London on. The issue around Stonehenge has been a problem for a very long time. I wondered where we are in terms of the tunnel, the road and things like that.”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for South Dorset (Lloyd Hatton) on securing the debate. I have listened with interest to all hon. Members, and it is a welcome exception that we are speaking in the House with unity and with one voice, from a shared sense of the value of free speech, to stop the bullies who use SLAPPs to …”

“Moving on to bridges—”

“Yes, because there are the big modern bridges, and then the little ones, which were built for carts and horses, and now you have enormous lorries driving over them. Bridges are famously very expensive to repair, and yet you have no data on them. How do you work out how you are going to manage and plan an expenditure if…”

“To be clear, you aspire to have data on bridges. Would that be accurate?”

“That is disappointing, but there we are.”

“I have one quick question, but if I could just give you some feedback from my constituency, where there is a particularly high level of SEN and particularly poor provision, my constituents and their parents are crying out for this across sectors—social services, schools and the NHS. You are not going to achieve it if y…”

“Could I ask Susan Acland-Hood and Jonathan Marron, how are you improving your collective understanding of the reason for the increase in SEND support and the demand for EHCPs, and what this means for the future? Do you have a prognosis that you can use the data that you have now? I accept that it is a very complex area…”

“I find it absolutely shocking—I am sure my hon. Friend will agree—that the recommendations of a report published 15 years ago by the previous Health and Social Care Committee have still not been implemented.”

“I came here under the misapprehension that I was attending a debate on fishing. I know my history perfectly well. Could we move on to fish, please?”