Speeches by Hall.

“Is there anything that you think did not work in the last strategy that you will not do next time, as we look to shape and improve it going forward?”

“I would like to go back to the homelessness advice and support team and the kind of role that it has. Given the rising trend in using B&Bs, how successfully is this team supporting local authorities to move away from B&Bs? How effective is it in doing that? What kind of support is there? If a local authority comes to y…”

“How might your rough sleeping strategy inform a wider strategy on homelessness?”

“Did that capture the wider determinants, such as health, mental health and benefits issues? How interactive was it? You said you published the data; that is great, but are local authorities able to use that data, for example to home in on their specific patches?”

“I am interested in what we learn from that work. To what extent was there data sharing and monitoring systems? Was that shared across Departments? How often was progress tracked, and what was the frequency of the identification of emerging trends and where things were not working ahead of time? How frequently was that …”

“I want to look at the 2022 rough sleeping strategy and the cross-departmental activity between Government and the homeless sector. My question is to Penny—you knew this was coming. What is the evidence that your rough sleeping strategy is helping to focus activity across Government and within the homelessness sector?”

“Hello. I want to look at the 2022 rough sleeping strategy in a bit more detail—[Interruption.]”

“On 14 June 2017, the country watched in horror as images of the fire engulfing Grenfell Tower emerged. I felt it in the pit of my stomach as the true scale of the devastation and loss of life became apparent. This tragedy should never have happened. I will call it out for what it is: a national scandal. I hope that the…”

“What about best practice examples? Does sharing best practice between local authorities happen quite a lot?”

“Where are they based? Are they based centrally and then sent out to the various areas where they are needed, or are they embedded in regions?”

“So they understand their areas?”

“Yes, so the team goes in when this is triggered, but if it keeps happening—”

“Exactly.”

“This year marked the 51st anniversary of the Summerland disaster on the Isle of Man, in which 50 people, including 11 children, lost their lives after a fire engulfed the Summerland leisure complex. My constituent Valerie Daniels and her younger sister were both impacted by that horrifying tragedy. Two young men from W…”

“I want to go back to the extensive usage of temporary and bank staffing, and the variation in usage. I want to know why there is such variation in usage between the ICBs, and what are the roles that need to be covered. What does that tell us about the types of vacancies that there are? What kind of length are they cove…”

“Fantastic. That’s good for me. Thank you.”

“Taking that one step further in terms of tangible action, what action will you take to allow integrated care systems to make progress on the key things that they were set up to do?”

“Do you think that is why there has been such a lack of progress? Do you think that professionals take prevention seriously?”

“I have had a little break and now I am back. The National Audit Office’s 2022 Report on the introduction of ICSs noted that while 77% of senior ICSs start who were surveyed reported that their organisation had an intention to invest in prevention, only 31% felt that they had the capacity to do so at the time. With that…”

“Yes.”