Speeches by Hall.

“It is not just passports. I am talking about across the board.”

“There is an impact. Getting this right is crucial, then.”

“They have changed their fees to meet the deficit.”

“We have talked about improving reporting and disclosures in order to increase transparency, but I wanted to focus on smaller bodies. The NAO Report highlights how important it is that financial reporting requirements are proportionate. Matthew, how will you make sure that this is proportionate for smaller bodies?”

“Do you foresee any challenges with the changes?”

“It has to be found from somewhere, so that is going to have an impact on the resilience of public services at some point. The money has to be found from a pot somewhere.”

“I would like to turn to unplanned deficits and the impact that that is having on service users. Turning back to the NAO Report again, two examples are given. HM Passport Office is cited as not having fully recovered the cost of providing passports since 2017-18, despite this full cost recovery target. HM Treasury did n…”

“Where is “elsewhere”?”

“It would not go on in terms of fee increases. The service users who are paying and doing what they should be doing—rightly so—are not going to be seeing the fees that they are facing rising.”

“How often is that? Is that a year or two years in advance?”

“The good intentions are there and, if they are actively managed, that is fine, but good intentions can go awry, can they not? If things look like they are not going the way they should be and costs are not being recouped, for instance, is that where the active management comes in?”

“You are across the detail, I suppose.”

“It seems like common sense to me. I am not a financial expert. Why has this not happened before?”

“You are confident that examples like the one I have just given can be avoided in the future by taking this approach.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Josh Dean) for securing this crucial debate. Teachers and parents alike tell me the same thing: there is too much pressure and not enough time to focus on children as people. We all want an assessmen…”

“As someone who has ADHD, I know how much difference the right support makes. For me, this issue is simple. Support in education is not a favour—it is a legal right, yet too many families have to battle to get what the law already promises. That includes families like that of my constituent, Vicky James, who not only fi…”

“There is no change. What is the reason for that confidence?”

“Sir Jim, we have touched upon this quite a few times. Given the recent industrial action, what can NHS England do to plan for or mitigate the impact of that action?”

“How did you change it? What was the change?”

“Between those two different sets of action, was there a reduction in the number of procedures that were cancelled, or did it maintain roughly the same?”