Speeches by McIntyre.

“You mentioned Hull and Hillingdon. What are the key factors that make them so successful in your view? How can we make sure that we are taking the best from them to the rest of the country?”

“You mentioned having the early health checks, and I remember vividly—it was only two years ago—doing ours with our little boy. I was very motivated to go to the first one, but that is a function of the health service and the wider health system. How do we better join up the services being provided by family hubs with t…”

“You segued quite well to my next question, which is about the digital red book. You said that would be your No. 1 priority. What needs to be done to deliver it?”

“Why do you think the duplication has been allowed to happen, historically?”

“Secretary of State, several times today you have mentioned that there is a lot of duplication. What exactly is duplicated between the Department and NHS England?”

“Finally from me, I appreciate that you will not be able to comment specifically, given that consultations will be ongoing, and I would not want to prejudice any of them. However, we saw reports at the weekend that the redundancies and the packages that might have to be paid to staff may end up costing the Department up…”

“It is reassuring to hear that the savings will be making their way to the frontline. Two questions follow from that. First, the hundreds of millions is a relatively small percentage of the overall spend of the Department. What impact do you think the savings will have on the frontline? I am the MP for Gloucester. When …”

“In the sense of opportunity costs or the fact that you have people man-marking instead of doing.”

“You have pre-empted my next question. It is a perfect segue. You have said that the savings will run into the hundreds of millions. Presumably, some of that is from removing some of the duplication directly. What are the other costs to the taxpayer in how the Department and NHS England are structured?”

“So, it is a direction of travel rather than a hard and fast target?”

“A number has been bandied around of a 50% reduction in workforce. How has that number been calculated?”

“I thank the Minister for his statement and for the update on the redress scheme for victims of the Horizon scandal. I also thank him for listening to my campaign to save the Kings Square post office in Gloucester and for maintaining so many vital services for Gloucester residents with today’s announcement that they wil…”

“I am struck by your comment that there are a lot of things we don’t know in this space. How will you be working to test the effectiveness of the interventions, and do you have an idea of how you might evaluate the effectiveness and report back on that?”

“In terms of working with others, we talked about local public health professionals, but on working with the NHS and the Gambling Commission, how do you see working with them to make sure that we embed this prevention-based approach in everything that we do?”

“Will it be sometime between now and 5 April 2026?”

“A rough date? A quarter? A year?”

“My colleague touched on this earlier with some of the questions around the inequalities in different local communities. Is that another work strand that you are looking at, in terms of how we can tackle some of those and get into communities that are perhaps more difficult to reach with prevention programmes?”

“I am conscious of time, so I shall direct my questions to Andrew. We have heard from the previous panel about areas in which we are seeing some good work; and from Henrietta just now we heard about areas that have perhaps not got the resources that others have. When OHID is pulling together a national strategy on preve…”

“When can we expect to see a national strategy from OHID?”

“The killing of innocent Palestinian civilians, many of them women and children, by Israeli forces is simply heartbreaking. The Minister knows that I have been raising my concerns, and those of my constituents, with him since I was elected to this House last July. I am grateful for and appreciate the steps that he and t…”