Speeches by Duffield.

“Thank you. Would you all agree? Most MPs that did not vote that way told us that experience showed older people are more likely to opt out than opt in to something because there is stigma and embarrassment. Broadly, would you all agree with that?”

“Thank you. Does anyone else want to come in?”

“Thank you very much. Just turning to the whole panel: the third sector was strongly opposed to the decision to means-test the winter fuel payment. How effective, or not, will the mitigations that the Government have announced be?”

“Thank you; that was a really helpful answer. What steps would you like to see prioritised to reduce poverty in our ageing population? Do you think things like the Renters’ Rights Bill might make a difference with private renting particularly?”

“The first question is directed to Joanna mostly. What would you say have been the key drivers in the increase of levels of poverty among older people over the last decade?”

“Rhian, do you want to come in?”

“T9. Elizabeth Fry first began her work to create sex-specific prison facilities for women in 1813, with the primary aim of protecting female prisoners from rape, and the Gaols Act 1823 put this into statute. Yet 200 years later, Fry’s legacy is being betrayed as girls and women continue to be housed with boys and men. …”

“T7. My constituent, 14-year-old Lewis, has been out of school for two years and his education has been disrupted for four. He is yet another child whose parents have been told by Kent county council that he must attend a particular school despite the school saying that it is unable to meet his specific educational need…”

“What have you found have been the key practical and administrative challenges so far? Maybe it is a bit early to tell, but have you come across anything that makes it difficult or that you have learned from?”

“It is worth mentioning before I move on to my section that Nicole mentioned creative industries, and Rhea was talking about no pay, but of course a lot of Channel 4’s employees, for example, will be creatives who are freelance. They are not going to get sick pay at all if they go through this and then decide themselves…”

“Do you expect 100% of trusts to implement the scheme and do you have any timeframe about how long that will take?”

“Brilliant, thank you. A lot of the questions in this section were really about the feedback that you are getting, but it is at the beginning, it is in the early stages. Have you had feedback yet that implies that partner leave is going to be taken up as well? All these issues that we have talked about, will the NHS try…”

“Given the new Government’s collective condemnation of the two-child limit over the eight years since it was introduced, which includes condemnation from many Government Members on Select Committees, will they at the very least commit to scrapping its heinous, sexist and frankly disgusting rape clause element?”

“Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the 285,000 people who signed the petition about renationalisation that I helped to present to Downing Street a couple of years ago, particularly those in the beautiful coastal town of Whitstable, have been badly let down by Southern Water on a daily basis?”

“I welcome my dear friend to her position, and I know she will be absolutely brilliant. I was thrilled to attend the 30-year anniversary of the first women ordained at Canterbury cathedral earlier this year. The service was conducted by our dear Bishop Rose, our much-loved former chaplain to the Speaker. Will my friend …”

“11. What steps the Church is taking to mark the 30th anniversary of the ordination of women.”