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“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“I am grateful to the hon. Lady; I did give her advance notice that because of the rescheduling of the debate, I would seek to intervene on her. As she knows, I visited the area a year ago, and the whole situation is unacceptable; in fact, the Foreign Secretary has already referred to the current circumstances as “settl…”

“The fact that so many colleagues have raised these questions again today is a clear indication of how serious the issue of low and slow prosecution rates is. If the primary purpose of custodial sentences is public protection, does the Minister understand why victims in my constituency clearly feel discouraged, having w…”

“8. What steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates in cases of violence against women and children.”

“Like my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Charlie Maynard), I welcome the broad direction of the review. I acknowledge that this is happening in the context of some people attempting to create a hostile environment—I hope Count Binface will deal with one source of that hostile environment in the weeks to come—but ther…”

“Finally, can I ask about safety? The national review proposes to amalgamate the Health Services Safety Investigations Body with the CQC. There was a lot of disquiet about whether that is appropriate. It is a safe space for clinicians to raise concerns, it avoids the necessity of things getting even worse and going for …”

“Moving on to the current status of the emergency and urgent services, I know that you have been looking closely at what else can be done to address the issues of corridor care and ambulance waiting times. What do you believe are the primary ingredients to resolving those issues? What is working, and what would be the b…”

“Okay. Thank you very much.”

“On the workforce itself, Samantha in an earlier response described the publication of the workforce plan—perhaps diplomatically—as awaiting the bedding in of the Prime Minister. That is my interpretation of what was intended by the way it was presented. The issue is that there has been some speculation—well informed or…”

“We are now playing extra time; thank you very much for hanging around for it—although, to save time, I may try to play it as a penalty shootout. Let me pick up the point that Paulette made about the Ockenden review. In an interview on Sunday, you said that senior clinicians refused to take part in the Ockenden review. …”

“I entirely accept that point about diagnostic tools, but clinicians on the frontline talk about safe staffing, and particularly about properly trained clinicians—doctors, nurses and so on. There has been a strong push to ensure there is a sufficient number. If anything, the Ockenden review and other reports have identi…”

“Are you not worried about the concerns that have been expressed that this may not necessarily give those clinicians on the frontline the confidence that it is a body they can safely work with, where protected disclosure will be genuinely protected?”

“But the stats are already there. What are the actions where you said they need the interventions?”

“And you will go to those places that are struggling and give them assistance.”

“As the Minister knows, my west Cornwall and Isles of Scilly constituency has almost 150 miles of coastline. In an earlier answer, he said that the model has to change, but it does not need to be trashed. He referred to the fact that the remuneration arrangements for CROs are bespoke, but so are the arrangements provide…”

“I am sorry; I moved from AI to circumstances where AI has limitations, particularly on the hospital ward. The RCN and others would welcome a mandate for one registered nurse to seven patients. Very rarely do they ever get to that level of staffing. That would provide both safety and efficiency, and therefore better out…”

“5. What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of readiness of UK defences to respond to remotely piloted aircraft systems.”

“The Government’s plans for drones have been referred to a number of times already today, and I welcome the important emphasis on uncrewed systems. As the Minister is aware, the air station at Predannack—or Pradnick, as we call it locally—in west Cornwall is one of a number of important locations for research and develo…”

“10. What steps he is taking to support the hospitality sector.”

“As welcome as that is, and I am not crying wolf, the hospitality sector faces a very high risk of substantial business failure in the next 12 months as a result of the tax burdens that it has to face simply for attempting to survive, rather than a tax burden to help it succeed—in other words, shifting from VAT and busi…”