Speeches by Green.

“Who leads on those initiatives that you were just talking about? Is it DfE, DfT or somebody else? Does it depend?”

“I am keen to understand how the Department for Education is working with the Department for Transport—especially given the Bus Services Act—and other bodies so that those local transport initiatives that are being explored reduce reliance on home to school transport. There is an example from my own area in Buckinghamsh…”

“7. What diplomatic steps her Department is taking to support Ukraine.”

“Point 24 of Russia’s peace plan proposes to establish a humanitarian committee to resolve outstanding issues, such as prisoner exchanges on an “all for all” basis and the return of civilian detainees and hostages, including children. That approach conflates prisoners of war with stolen children, who are afforded specia…”

“I recognise what my hon. Friend is describing. Last week, I received an email from a constituent who travelled 200 miles from Amersham to Rochdale for the same reason. She felt she had been “penalised for following the rules” because she was forced to go down that route. Does my hon. Friend agree with her?”

“Is that data publicly available?”

“Do you have a way of tracking that and having visibility of how one change elsewhere in the system impacts on police forces?”

“Is there a plan in place to try to do precisely that? I accept that the dashboards will help with the Ministry of Justice, but there will be other Departments that will make a policy decision that has a knock-on effect on our forces. That is a great example of where a change has had an effect, but that is one example.”

“Dame Antonia, can I ask you what work you are doing with other Government Departments to better understand and prepare for changes that may be happening elsewhere and that will have an impact on our forces? For example—and this is just one example—it is expected that probation will scale back the supervision that it do…”

“What about other Government Departments? The area that immediately comes to mind is the amount of time that police officers spend with individuals in mental health crisis. That is not a Ministry of Justice issue. That is a health issue. Do you have visibility of how that is affecting our forces, how that filters its wa…”

“My question is on the area where the legal costs of clinical negligence cases appear disproportionate, especially when it comes to claimant legal costs. This is more of a follow-up question to Ms Jones around what the Department is doing to address the increasing amount of NHS funds being paid to clinical negligence la…”

“You may feel that you cannot answer this, so it might be a cheeky question, but to follow up on that, is your sense that there is quite a defensive culture within the NHS—that they automatically go into defence mode when any questions are asked? I apologise if that is a question you do not feel you can answer.”

“This is a brief one to follow up on the initial response to harm. Helen, this is a question for you, because NHS Resolution has done some research into this. I am keen to understand from your perspective how the NHS is responding to that research. It is not just about individuals looking for answers or reassurance endi…”

“Is there anything you can do in your organisation to improve the transparency around the additional legal fees that claimants pay out of their compensation? There is no clear figure attached to that, but is there anything you can do to increase transparency on that?”

“Could you write to the Committee and give us a bit more detail on that? We would be interested in learning more about that.”

“So that is still up in the air?”

“Are you a statutory consultee on those kinds of applications? Is there an obligation on local authorities to come to you when an application like that comes before them, or is it just “If they feel the need to”?”

“On the work you are doing with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and local authorities on the planning system, what is the challenge there, and what is your role in helping to fix that?”

“I have. I am going to ask about creating more places. You have already mentioned a project that is happening in London, but I am really keen to understand, Gila, what the Department is doing to incentivise all providers to create more residential homes in the geographic locations where they are needed. We have had some…”

“Earlier, you mentioned having meetings with officials in the Department as early as 2022. There is a two-year gap there.”