Speeches by Dixon.

“I would like to come now to the issue that has been highlighted about those who are more at risk of antimicrobial-resistant infections: babies, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems. We have also touched on this in terms of deprivation and ethnicity. There are various theories about why this might be an…”

“Given that that is clearly not in place for my constituent, what is the expectation on the NHS that it should be doing those things?”

“Is there anything you would like to add, Professor Whitty, on the social determinants?”

“Thank you for your clear answers.”

“You mentioned hand hygiene. During covid, there was a lot of learning and teaching us all how to make sure that we were doing that frequent handwashing, so it is possible to change human behaviour, not through education programmes but with other types of interventions. Is there anything more that the NHS could be doing…”

“I want to come back to the issue of public education. You have given examples where GPs are faced with patients and having to do that education in the moment. As part of some of the earlier plans, there were wider public education campaigns. The Keep Antibiotics Working campaign in 2017 to 2019 seemed like it was fairl…”

“Talking about future-proofing our homes, a key things we could do with an ageing population is to ensure that all new homes are built to higher accessibility and adaptability standards. The previous Government consulted on that, but never implemented anything. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that was a lost opportun…”

“Yes, and perhaps we could ask the ONR to share with us what data it uses to reach that green rating.”

“Good morning. I would like to start by asking a few brief questions to you, Mr Peattie. This whole part of the questioning is really about whistleblowing. Do you have a group-wide whistleblowing policy?”

“I am sure that we will come back in the main hearing to some of the more general points. I also wanted to specifically understand the use of non-disclosure agreements. Are they used across the group? If so, how many have been used at Sellafield in recent years?”

“Perhaps you could write to the Committee and provide the detail about that. I would like now to turn to the case of my constituent Alison McDermott. The majority of what I am about to say is already in the public domain but, for the avoidance of doubt, I do not believe that anything I am about to say relates to live le…”

“I am not going to speak about any current legal proceedings in this case. It is using public money to pursue employment tribunals to that degree. Taking the general point, would you say that that is a good use of public money?”

“This is survey data that you sent to me personally yesterday afternoon. As it is marked “official”, I assume it is appropriate to draw upon in this hearing, so I have shared with fellow members of the Committee. I am sure that we will all want to come to some more detailed questioning. Before I do that, I do not want t…”

“Just to establish, what role were you in at the time that that initial report was done in 2017?”

“You were in a safety-critical role. My own background is working on patient safety in the NHS. Indeed, I am vice-chair of the patient safety APPG. I hope that you will agree with me that it is critical to safety that there is a culture where people at all levels feel safe to speak up. I wondered whether you thought tha…”

“I am going to come back later and challenge whether these problems have really completely gone away. I do not think that I heard an apology, but I hope you will at least agree to meet with me and my constituent, Alison. I know we will come back to these issues of safety and culture in the main hearing.”

“Before I get into my area of questioning, I just wanted to pick up the last point that Luke raised about cyber-security. Just to clarify, were you saying that there had or had not been successful attacks?”

“So on no occasion were any of these cyber-security threats successful in accessing your safety-critical systems.”

“When we visited, we heard about something called the programme and project partners approach. It seemed that this longer-term collaboration between different suppliers was creating a more positive way of working than perhaps is reflected within the main operating, and certainly the historic way of operating, at Sellafi…”

“Yes, we did.”