Speeches by Coleman.

“The value of giving people a sense of hope is powerful.”

“And they need hope?”

“Practices need more money to employ more GPs?”

“What is in the way of employing them?”

“That is a circular argument. We want to retain more GPs by retaining more GPs. I am not sure that is the complete answer.”

“What is the best way of getting more GPs? It may seem a simple question.”

“I see. You have that and all the other challenges that you have identified. We have the workforce plan coming up. What would you like to see in the workforce plan to encourage retention?”

“Do you see that as being, for some people, the natural response to a new system that has to bed in, and therefore it will resolve itself, or do you see it being an ongoing challenge for those GPs?”

“We know it is a challenge that people are leaving. I would like to understand a little bit more. I have been talking to some GPs in London local medical committees about the new requirement to respond very quickly when patients go online.”

“We touched on retention. I would like to ask a bit more about that, please. Perhaps I can start with GPs. I know that, Professor Hawthorne, you did a recent survey that found that 28% of GPs felt so stressed at least once a week that they could not cope. I was wondering whether you could unpack that a little. Particula…”

“Q14. My constituents tell me that our top national priority must remain as it is: economic growth. Does the Prime Minister agree that the swiftest way to achieve growth is for the Government to be even more ambitious in negotiating with the European Union to remove the new red tape and trade barriers that have been hol…”

“The FSS in Scotland has more of a remit than the FSA in England, doesn’t it?”

“Finally, Nika, on the level playing field, the idea of the industry being asked to do certain things voluntarily makes it incredibly difficult, I would have thought, because some of them are going to do it and some of them are not. None of them wants to be the first company to do it and lose money. Is it essential that…”

“All chocolates? Some of Cadbury’s products have hardly any chocolate in them now. Other chocolates on sale have lots of chocolate in them. Would you put it on all chocolates?”

“Such as?”

““Unfood” perhaps. The Food Standards Agency has been much discussed. At one point it was quite closely involved in regulation and in trying to encourage voluntary compliance by the industry on salt. Its role has diminished and it has been taken over by Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care.…”

“I have been looking at the dictionary definition of “food” in the OED, Chambers and Merriam-Webster. They all talk about food being something that puts nutrition into your body. Do you think that a lot of the things that we are talking about should no longer be called food? Diet Coke is an example that Donald Trump has…”

“I am pushing back on the use of the word “education”, because it is used a lot by manufacturers, and it is well proven that there is a very significant difference between education, which teaches you maths or French or science or what is in foods, and making perhaps spurious claims and saying you are informing the cons…”

““Education” is a positive word. Do you mean inculcation and propaganda?”

“What do you mean by education?”