Speeches by Dixon.

“That is music to certainly my ears, as someone who is from a public health background. Hopefully the Treasury is listening to your interesting comments on preventive health as an investment. Certainly, the numbers we see in the Report about the economic impact if we do not get AMR under control are quite significant. Y…”

“Good morning and thank you for coming. Before I get into my questions, I will declare that I worked as a civil servant in the Department of Health from 2013 to 2015, when Dame Sally Davies was the chief medical officer. All credit to her for championing both nationally and globally this very important issue at that tim…”

“As hospitals’ budgets have been squeezed, has there been any concern that there has not been the appropriate level of cleaning, particularly with outsourcing? Is there any evidence of a difference between insourced and outsourced cleaning?”

“Lord O’Neill has just suggested that it could be more ambitious. That is fine. That was the question—whether we are pushing hard enough in the latest plan. I do not know whether Dr Partridge wants to comment on whether the new plan goes far enough.”

“I was thinking about your winter flu campaigns. I understand that the NHS runs public-facing campaigns; I just wondered why not on this.”

“I am interested in the public, going beyond the professional.”

“4. What steps she is taking to promote active travel.”

“Increasing active travel by 50% in England would result in 1.8 million fewer GP visits and 4 million fewer sick days. I therefore welcome the Government’s commitment, reiterated by the Minister, to build 300 miles of new cycle lanes and walkways. Will the Minister meet me and the Friends of Wharfedale Greenway to see h…”

“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…”

“That is fine. I was a bit confused by that. You have talked about feeling safe to speak up, a culture of learning and improvement and, at the same time, helping to make sure that people are focused on performance and productivity. In terms of some of the projects, absenteeism and lack of workforce has sometimes been a …”

“Do you want to add anything, Mr Hutton, on the point about a learning culture?”

“I have one final point, if I may. There is a lot here about performance culture. We have talked separately about how you are motivating your staff. I was intrigued that having a deadline of 2039 would motivate your workforce.”

“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.”