Speeches by Carling.

“Thank you. The Grenfell example was particularly interesting, in terms of an early warning that went unheeded. Do you see a trend that when we have an inquiry into a major issue, when we look back, find a coroner’s report from a while back that flagged the same issues?”

“That is a really useful parallel to draw; thank you for that. Finally from me, we have already talked a bit about how different chairs of different inquiries have had varying views on this, but it would be interesting to hear your views. When should scrutiny of the implementation of an inquiry’s recommendations come to…”

“Sure. We have talked a lot about various options for the monitoring and oversight process, but to take it back to first principles, what key elements does the process need to include? What key features should we be looking at when designing it?”

“Thank you. That is helpful.”

“This question is primarily to you, Ms Ellul. Do you think that there should be a difference between how recommendations coming from statutory public inquiries are monitored and scrutinised compared with those coming from other routes, for example prevention of future death reports or investigation bodies?”

“T9. Young people in North West Cambridgeshire and across the country are struggling to access mortgages and get on to the housing ladder due to thin credit files. Will the Minister explore requiring lettings agents and large landlords, with the consent of tenants, to report rental payment data to credit reference agenc…”

“They have now.”

“I have a brief follow-up question based on what you were saying about savings. I often find that when there are discussions about public bodies being set up, you see the argument that they can be more financially efficient than doing the same function within a Government Department, be it because you can get around civ…”

“To move back to public bodies reform more broadly, the public bodies reform programme that your Government led would have required sustained engagement and buy-in from across Government for a long time. How did you create that sustained engagement and buy-in, and how was that structured and resourced at the centre of G…”

“I have to say that young people can also be very keen on condensing public bodies.”

“Fair enough. Finally, we have the sense that the ongoing review programme under the current Government is primarily asking Departments to look at how their public bodies are working and doing it on that basis, rather than having a particularly strong central drive, although I am sure that is happening as well. Do you t…”

“How big was the Treasury's role in driving the agenda forward?”

“That was going to be my question: where do you think that best fits and how can that be ensured?”

“To follow up on that, before I ask about a different subject. You are talking about how a Prime Minister can make sure that the people they are appointing as junior Ministers have the right skill set. Obviously, Prime Ministers are very busy people and do not necessarily have the time to conduct really thorough assessm…”

“I have long been arguing that we need an overhaul of charity regulation to tackle rogue operators who are exploiting charity status to peddle extremism and hate, so I am thrilled that the Government have listened and are starting that today with new powers for the Charity Commission—I look forward to seeing the detail.…”

“That is where the problem is.”

“From my constituency experience, there seem to be system data-sharing problems as well, which we have not discussed so much today. I have a constituent who left the civil service in December due to ill health. They have been in touch with Capita several times and have told me that they have got different information an…”

“I am really grateful for that contribution from my hon. Friend, and I absolutely agree with her. It is really important that we listen to IICSA, which spent many years on this, and deliver what it recommended. When it comes to religious organisations in which there is a strong culture of distrusting secular authorities…”

“I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that point. It sounds like really helpful evidence and a really good example, and I will certainly go away and have a look at it. I will not rehash the arguments I made in June, but I will say that IICSA was clear, having examined the issue in huge depth over many ye…”

“I am very grateful to the hon. Lady, who I know has done a lot of work on this matter, in particular on making sure that the seal of confession is not exempted from mandatory reporting. I very much appreciate her work on that, which is really important. She says—I am sure that she has the correct figure—that it takes o…”