Speeches by McIntyre.

“11. What recent progress her Department has made on implementing the violence against women and girls strategy.”

“Before I start, I should declare that I am an officer on the APPG for diabetes. I had a fantastic visit up to Sheffield to see Solomon and his team and the work they are doing in Sheffield on diabetes. Some of the stats you shared at the start, Solomon, are pretty terrifying. Today is World Cancer Day. I think it would…”

“Given the stats you shared about the NHS spending £1 billion a year on diabetic foot disease and the wider complications of diabetes and the cost of that to the NHS, prevention is always cheaper than cure. From your perspective, why do I, as a Gloucester resident with type 2 diabetes, not have a one-stop shop? Why have…”

“I am conscious that we have NHSE and DHSC colleagues sat at the back. If you had one message to give them about how we can get that model rolled out tomorrow, what would be your message to the people with the power to roll this out? What is stopping us? What would stop you from rolling it out further across the country…”

“Can you tell us a little bit about the work that you have been doing in Sheffield to pilot new technology that detects foot disease earlier?”

“That picks up on diabetic foot disease at quite a late stage, does it not?”

“Most people, when they get their feet checked at the GP, have a filament test, do they not?”

“I thank the Chief Secretary for his statement. Gloucester residents will rightly be angry and incredibly disgusted by the revelations in the papers released by the American Government over the weekend. It is in the interests of the whole House that we get this place in order so that those who commit heinous acts, who a…”

“Shouldn’t that be on the home page?”

“Moving on to Asda, to be fair, you have got potatoes and apples on your rollback page, when you click through, but do you not see that there’s a problem with all these products being front and centre, when we have one the highest childhood obesity rates in the world?”

“As my previous career was in advising businesses up and down the country, I take some issue with the hon. Lady’s point that there is no experience among Labour Members. She says that taxes, particularly the rise in national insurance, are causing the rise in youth unemployment, but does she know at what level of income…”

“But that’s on the front page. When you go on to groceries and on to offers, you have Valentine’s day, Weetabix, and then four for three on chicken dippers and potato waffles. There is a bit for salmon, but for quite a lot of my constituents, a four-pack of boneless salmon fillets is beyond them at the moment, given the…”

“One of the challenges on the science, as I understand it, is that quite a lot of the studies that say that ultra-processing is not a problem have been funded by the food industry. Isn’t that correct?”

“Just to move on, Liz, I appreciate that Aldi does not do online shopping, so it is a bit of an unfair example—although two of the top three are beer and wine, which I think is a little bit problematic, but for a whole different reason. Looking at price reduction promotions, I have called out the fact that chicken dippe…”

“I want to come back to a point you made, Beth, about people not wanting to be told what they are doing by their supermarket—again, sorry Liz, but this does not really apply to Aldi, as you do not gather the same consumer data that the other three competitors do. You probably have more data than anybody else in the coun…”

“Oonagh, if I could come to you next?”

“I have just been doing a bit of online shopping—Aldi does not do online, but we will come to you in a moment. Tesco’s 4 for 3 on your favourite frozen products is on your offers of the week. They are Birds Eye chicken dippers, Aunt Bessie’s golden Yorkshires and Birds Eye potato waffles. Sainsbury’s top offers of the w…”

“I am sure your PR teams will get a bit of a headache this morning. I’m going on to price promotion and how healthy foods fit into that. Without wanting to go across the whole panel, can we all broadly agree that you would say that non-HFSS foods are broadly seen as healthy by all your supermarkets—not high in fat, salt…”

“You mentioned reformulation earlier. It is great that we are bringing out sugar, but what are we replacing it with? All the science in this area suggests that people need to eat more wholefoods and more fruit and vegetables because the fibre in that is better. We need to eat more basic food—I think Chris van Tulleken r…”

“Beth?”