Speeches by Coleman.

“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 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…”

“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.”

“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?”

“Thank you for coming today. I think that, like me, you probably listened with great interest to the previous session and are keen to say things now. I would like to ask about the Food Standards Agency, but you mentioned Diet Coke. I do not know if you have read Chris van Tulleken’s book, but there is a very interesting…”

“Just yesterday, the Government came out with new figures showing that the prevalence of childhood obesity in the most deprived areas is more than double the prevalence in the least deprived. It may surprise many hon. Members to hear that it is a significant problem in my constituency. Although Chelsea and Fulham is amo…”

“That is a very important point. The availability of fast food right outside schools needs to be looked at and curtailed. The food is cheap, but it is incredibly low quality, and it is not doing our children any good. And school food standards are not properly enforced. There is a lot of cheap school food, but in some o…”

“I am grateful, Mr Mundell—I will conclude. The hon. Member makes a very helpful point, particularly for constituencies that are more rural than mine of Chelsea and Fulham—what he says certainly has validity in many parts of the country. My final point is very simple: families do not need lectures. They need a Governmen…”

“If only you could identify which it was.”

“This is a really interesting session and I appreciate everything you have said. To come back to the importance of national Government giving a steer, and what happens at local level, it occurs to me that you are very effective proselytisers. Again, I am looking forward to reading the book. Have you considered sitting d…”

“Thank you. I look forward to getting the book.”