Speeches by George.

“Surely, at the local authority level, most local authorities have the strong leader model, so it is primarily just one local councillor who you need to be talking to, not the whole council. I do not understand why you cannot make significant progress without having to have a wider discussion. Is that true?”

“Where and why? This goes back to Danny’s point.”

“So does it come down to elected members making those decisions that cannot go forward simply by officer decisions in the public health service?”

“Now in comparison to when?”

“Are you satisfied that that level of integration operates throughout the country?”

“Do you think, therefore, that there should be a greater emphasis on the clinical side within the workforce plan? Or should there be a greater emphasis at the public health end of the service?”

“Exactly. Has it improved since?”

“That draws me into the 10-year workforce plan, which is anticipated but not yet published. A moment ago, you predicted that there will be a greater range of challenging diseases that the service will have to respond to. Looking forward, what does that mean for the service, at a local authority level and at NHS secondar…”

“Is that reflected from your perspective, Matt?”

“Since you have a view across the piece, is the pressure on the workforce in this area greater than that across the NHS as a whole?”

“Sounds quite young to me!”

“The survey had a particular emphasis on retention of workforce. Is the issue primarily one of the retention of staff, rather than of having to step up recruitment in order to get numbers to levels that are sustainable?”

“That is three years now.”

“There is no time for courtesies. Homelessness is one end of a continuum that starts with thousands of wealthy people purchasing holiday and second homes in places such as Cornwall and ends with 5,000 people annually presenting to the local authority as at risk of or experiencing homelessness. For a number of years, I l…”

“T2. I acknowledge that the Government have inherited local government finance and SEND requirements in what is probably their worst crisis in history. However, Cornwall has faced one of the steepest—indeed, the steepest—demands for education, health and care plans in recent years, and one of the greatest SEND needs, as…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for Birmingham Erdington (Paulette Hamilton), my fellow member of the Health and Social Care Committee, not only on the manner in which she handled this inquiry but on the manner in which she stepped in, very appropriately, during our work on maternity care. This is a particularly excitin…”

“So you are also looking at the out-turns in healthier lives, as well as healthy living.”

“First, my apologies for missing the opening of this session because of commitments elsewhere. I want to ask you about the prescription and voucher scheme, Corin. The figurework in your evaluation certainly suggests that it has been very successful. Could you perhaps say a little bit more about that? The figurework sugg…”

“Is eligibility clearcut? Presumably, you are able to data share with other Government agencies to identify those who are eligible for the scheme. Is that right?”

“Presumably, you have no difficulty with the independent retailers that you are co-operating with the system. Do you ever have any difficulty with them? For example, complaints about recovering the value of the vouchers or anything of that nature?”