Speeches by George.

“The hon. Member is making a powerful case for reform and review. This morning, the Health and Social Care Committee was looking at the very issue of delayed discharge of medically fit patients. Does he not accept that we need more integration? If only a quarter of those delayed discharges are down to a lack of social c…”

“Other than the Minister’s response to the excellent question from the right hon. Member for North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse), I strongly welcome both the tone and content of the Minister’s answers. It is clear that there is no justification for the vindictive and counterproductive actions of the Israeli Government,…”

“I warmly congratulate the Prime Minister on his actions and his leadership in recent days, and, indeed, on his stamina here this afternoon. Apart from Putin’s puppets who scarpered from the Chamber more than an hour ago, the House knows full well that support for Ukraine is essential to maintaining the rules-based worl…”

“10. What steps she is taking to help ensure that levels of funding to local government are sufficient to fund public services.”

“I am grateful to the Minister for that response. He will be aware that since the Conservatives took control of Cornwall council four years ago, they have transformed that authority from being financially sound to staring down the barrel of bankruptcy. Cornwall is a rural authority with urban levels of deprivation and a…”

“You commented on the 10-year plan, which is not published yet, and the three shifts. You have been critical about the lack of progress that has been made on the three shifts. Obviously, they have only just been announced, but there has been an underlying desire to achieve those three shifts. Unarguably, they are desira…”

“Can I move you on to your experience and an area of political contentiousness that certainly bedevils debate here—that is, the role of the private sector? You had 19 years in McKinsey; one may say that is coming from the dark side into the NHS. To what extent do you recognise the potential risks of the way in which the…”

“Thank you very much.”

“There are challenges ahead.”

“Right. But you know that the pressure at the moment is very much on acute care, with substantial delayed discharges, corridor care and ambulances queuing outside emergency departments. There will be a lot of resistance to any suggestion that the leadership of NHS England is going to withdraw still further resources fro…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz. I thoroughly endorse the remarks of the hon. Member for Epping Forest and the questions he raised. I will make three quick remarks, the first of which is to embellish his point about whether the figure in the regulations takes sufficient account of anticipated …”

“This is almost parallel to the question that Pauline asked earlier. For providers who have a foot in both camps, providing both elective care in the NHS and private care, do you think that that can be managed? There is certainly a lot of unease in the system about how that is currently handled and managed, both ethical…”

“Well, I suppose I should—no, I will not. One stands on the shoulders of giants, and Colin Breed did a tremendous amount of work from 1997 to 2001. He produced an excellent report called “Checking out the Supermarkets”, which laid a lot of the groundwork for the Grocery Market Action Group. Albert Owen, David Drew and o…”

“The Minister is certainly right, providing the investigation was on sound grounds. The worry was always that the investigation may identify a supplier simply by doing it, and that the anonymity intended when an intelligence-driven inquiry or investigation was generated may uncover that particular supplier. Therefore, a…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick) on an excellent and eloquent speech, which covered all the issues. I also thank the hon. Member for Salford (Rebecca Long Bailey) for contributing very tellingly. My bac…”

“I very warmly welcome the Foreign Secretary’s statement. Although he perhaps cannot use the language I am about to use, I hope that when the Prime Minister and he meet Putin’s appeaser in the White House later this week, he will remind him that if we have a special relationship—and the Foreign Secretary keeps referring…”

“I imagine that there is a concern among providers that it will result in raised and unfulfilled expectations and more resource. Surely there must be examples that one can identify where involving users has resulted in more resource efficiency.”

“It is worrying that no one is jumping at the opportunity to tell us, “Yes, there is this example.” That is worrying.”

“Yes, you do not need to do it now, but certainly point us in the direction of any location where we could identify a place where co-production has really worked and has resulted in outcomes that we can be proud of.”

“It would be really useful if any of you could point us to any locations.”