Speeches by McIntyre.

“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?”

“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…”

“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?”

“I note that Reform Members have already made it to the pub ahead of the statement, perhaps to celebrate the latest defection from the Conservative party, but I thank the Minister for today’s statement. Since I got elected last year, I have been running a campaign to open up our empty shops in Gloucester and show that w…”

“You are not defecting?”

“I welcome this legislation. Does the Secretary of State agree with me that the fact that the Government have listened to the concerns of resident doctors about training places, and have acted at pace to bring forward the legislation, shows that we as a Government are committed to fixing the problems left behind by the …”

“How many investigations did you start in the last year?”

“Roughly, what percentage of that 1,000 had interim orders placed on their licence to practise?”

“How many referrals does the GMC receive on fitness-to-practise grounds each year?”

“How many of those cases resulted in a restriction on practice or a suspension of duties pending investigation?”

“We can come to that in a moment, but I am particularly interested in the interim orders for now. Do you have a rough percentage on that? I appreciate that you might not have the specific figures, but anecdotally, what percentage of the 1,000 who are investigated have interim orders placed on them?”

“Yes.”

“If you could please write to the Committee with the details.”

“At the moment, from the details in front of me, we have several cases now that are more than a year old. The time taken to deal with some of these cases is increasing—that is correct, isn’t it?”

“To go back to the point made about interim orders tribunals, the fact that they are independent and how people go to them, I think all in the room agree that sexual predators should not practise as doctors. You will recognise the point that the GMC has to play across the practices, because if someone is being reported …”

“We would be interested to see the data on where third parties are involved, the numbers for that and who is responsible, because we would be very happy to take that up with other third parties. The numbers I have in front of me show that, at Q2 2024-25, 760 cases had been open for more than a year. We have established …”

“Presumably, though, we cannot have a situation in which we have serious concerns about a clinician. We also know, in the modern world, clinicians practise across various different sites at various different times, with varying communications at times where they are operating at one trust, but have a private practice el…”

“You do not have any right to appeal.”