Speeches by McIntyre.

“The shadow Secretary of State seems to have kicked off panto season. His comments reminded me of my favourite character, Buttons, who longs to be Prince Charming. If only his colleagues would write into the 1922 committee so that he can formally start his leadership bid. In the spirit of panto season, I wonder whether …”

“Environmental crimes such as fly-tipping blight cities such as Gloucester, leaving victims across my city unable to enjoy the place they love. Will the Minister confirm what discussions she has had with colleagues in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government about how we can give local councils the powe…”

“To build on that, you have touched on the fact that the industry needs to get involved, and that supermarkets reporting would be great. But when we see the same fast-food chain—and I am not naming—being a repeat customer, and now developing a chicken burger that is not HFSS to get around advertising regulations, do we …”

“I want to come back quickly to the point about smoking. One of the big differences—and this is an issue around obesity in general—is that you can live without smoking and alcohol. When you are tackling addiction to those things, you can live without them, so it is possible to go cold turkey. It is difficult with food; …”

“Or anything as a bucket.”

“Thank you all for your answers so far. Professor van Tulleken, I really enjoyed your book over the summer. That was my holiday poolside read and it terrified me. In particular, I read about a well-known fast food chain that you mention in the book and the fact that one of its products shares an ingredient with the lubr…”

“Thank you very much for your answers so far, Professor Whitty. I want to take a slightly different approach to a similar line of questioning. In healthcare settings, how can we support or incentivise healthcare professionals to start having these conversations, particularly with inactive older people, about the benefit…”

“On that secondary prevention piece, how can we get that promotion out of healthcare settings into wider communities and people’s everyday lives?”

“When you are thinking of inserting this into people’s everyday lives, cross-departmental work is really important. My colleague, Ben Coleman, passed me a couple of suggestions. For example, everybody gets written to about their state pension by the Department for Work and Pensions. Is it possible to insert health messa…”

“I guess part of the challenge is various different Departments of Government working together. What do we need to see from Government to support cross-departmental working on this area?”

“As the hon. Lady is so proudly championing her party’s record, will she stand by the comments by the Leader of the Opposition, who said that maternity pay is “excessive”, and by a donor to the Leader of the Opposition, Luke Johnson, who told the Employment Rights Bill Committee that the worst thing about the Bill is it…”

“There is a certain irony in the fact that last year I was given a minute in this Chamber to speak about the inadequacy of paternity leave, and this year I have been given 90 seconds. Two years ago today, I was beginning my journey as a first-time parent. That means that it is about two years since I last had a good nig…”

“Are there opportunities to use providers outside traditional sexual health services to promote service engagement?”

“Thank you very much for your answers so far. On tackling some of the health inequalities in this space and thinking about the positive outreach we need to do, what groups need more of a targeted focus at the moment? Other than social media, how can we target them?”

“Where are the examples of good practice? If we are looking for a good example of what we should be doing nationally, what would you say?”

“Laura, do you have any views on that?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I thank the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for securing the debate and for recognising the contribution of our Glorious Glosters. On 1 October 1950, 890 men from the Gloucestershire Regiment left England for Korea. …”

“Thank you very much.”

“That leads neatly into my next question: what is your reaction to the recently published food strategy, and how confident are you that it will succeed in improving access to affordable healthy food?”

“I am conscious that I have only two minutes before I have to hand back to the Chair, but you have teed up my next question again, Anna—thank you for that. Could you, in about a minute each, give a couple of concrete actions from the strategy that you would like to see the Government take in the next 18 months?”