Speeches by George.

“Further to the point made by the hon. Member for Exeter (Steve Race), is that not the nub of the argument? If the Government are to make the three shifts—including, importantly, the shift from hospital to community—they must not only stem the loss of pharmacies, but build them up.”

“My hon. Friend is making an excellent case, as did our hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson). Of course, his constituency of Honiton and Sidmouth is three and a half hours away from Penzance, so a 20-minute delay for people at Penzance is not necessarily the issue. It is the disruption, the uncertainty …”

“Maybe you would like to use the opportunity of the review of the Long Term Workforce Plan as your route into the subject.”

“To deliver the shift from acute to community—a mantra we have been hearing for decades—the assumption is that social care needs beefing up to tackle delayed discharges from hospital, but as far as I can see, in a large proportion of such cases, the majority in Cornwall, there is a need for ongoing medical oversight. I …”

“Retention is clearly a very important issue. Finance to enable retention will be a big constraint. Are there actions that the Government or the system can take to address retention matters without that becoming a large financial burden on the Government?”

“I suppose this question might apply to Kamila as well. On the issue of the longer-term workforce planning and trying to achieve larger numbers within the service to fill the 32,000 vacancies and so on, there has been a move—one might say a clever move—towards finding other ways of recruiting nurses, such as using nursi…”

“There is presumably an opportunity for you to have a big say in next year’s review of the Long Term Workforce Plan, to put a lot more emphasis on retention and recruitment, and to address those issues. Maybe we can start with Kamila.”

“That is £28,000 for a fully trained, degree-level clinician?”

“Thank you for your earlier remarks. Nicola, for the benefit of the Committee, what is the pay at the lower and higher ends of band 5?”

“What is level 7? Please explain.”

“I am grateful to the Minister; it is enormously helpful to hear her respond to these matters. She will have picked up the question I raised earlier about the national wealth fund and the fact that smaller projects, particularly those at the critical exploration stage, feel that they cannot take advantage of it. Is the …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I congratulate the hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth (Perran Moon), not only on bringing this issue to the House’s attention, but on the manner in which he introduced it, emphasising its importance. There have been a number of contributions to the debate…”

“Over the last 10 years, under the previous Government, £500 million of taxpayers’ money was handed out to second and holiday homeowners in Cornwall alone, while only half that amount was spent on social housing for first-time need. Meanwhile, there is a massive backlog of shovel-ready social housing development that ha…”

“Contrary to what the media are saying, today’s decision is not about bringing this Bill into law; it is about allowing it to go to the next stage. People may have misgivings, but the hon. Gentleman is making the assumption that the Bill cannot be corrected or amended in order to make it palatable to people who have dou…”

“My right hon. Friend is making an excellent case. On his point about multi-annual quotas, does he not agree that ICES very carefully presents its advice in a manner that actually provides for Governments, Ministers and indeed the European Commission to adopt a policy of multi-annual quotas for stock recovery? It does n…”

“Well, he died a fish, and we are very saddened by his demise. I should reflect, as we certainly did in those days, on the risk that people take to put fish on our table, of which my right hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) rightly reminded us. I remember that in 1997, we lost seven men in th…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. It is also a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (Melanie Onn), who gave what I suppose is best described as a commercial break in our proceedings, as she did a fantastic job of marketing the health and other benefits of cons…”

“The hon. Gentleman seems to be implying that the fishing industry is resistant to any conservation measures and would resist the proposed management measures that inevitably have to be brought into the industry. From my experience, the industry itself often proposes changes in order to protect its stock for the future.…”

“I will come to that in a second. The nature of what happens off the Cornish coast, and certainly in the south-west and other areas, is that pollack is caught in a multispecies environment. It is impossible not to catch pollack even when targeting other species—the hon. Member helps me to make the point—so my constituen…”

“I should have intervened earlier. The Minister is making a strong point. On the back of that, all we have to do is talk to the pollack fisherman in Cornwall to find out how they feel about what has happened in the last year.”