Speeches by Coleman.

“But led by the NHS?”

“That is going to require extra resource for whoever is doing it. Running a neighbourhood health service is quite a management job. Is extra resource going to be given to whoever is actually managing it, whichever part of the NHS they are doing it from, or are they going to be expected to manage and set up these new nei…”

“Very poor contract management.”

“The 10 year plan has some dates by which things will happen. Are you planning to produce a single overview timetable for the implementation of all the different promises in the plan? If so, when will you produce that timetable by?”

“That is absolutely right. Could you at least pull together everything that currently has a date and produce a single timetable? It would be easier for us, and probably for everybody else out there, to deal with. Would that be possible?”

“I served on an ICB for two years. Will it be a nice, simple two-pager that we can all read, alongside the 350 pages that an ICB would usually require us to plough through?”

“Given the fact that the figures have got a bit worse over the last two years—actually, all the time we have been looking at it; over a number of years, they get a little worse each year—do you think the NHS does not have an idea about how to tackle it? If so, what do you think it could do differently?”

“It is very interesting that you talk about that within the NHS. I have been looking at the figures for the published staff surveys for 150 NHS organisations over the last few years, and they are quite shocking. The figures for 2022 on whether you feel that you have had fair career progression, whether you have been dis…”

“Will you take that into consideration?”

“Just a couple of pages. Thank you.”

“Absolutely. Obviously, it is just simply wrong, cruel and poor. It is also expensive. This is an area that the NHS Race and Health Observatory has been looking at: the economic cost of racism. For example, in maternity care—we have spoken about black women being three times as likely to die in childbirth—£1.6 billion c…”

“Secretary of State, Jim and Sally, thank you very much for coming today. The plan has been a fascinating read and also a nice read in large print, which makes a change for a Government document; it actually makes it easier to read. I want to talk a little bit about equality, particularly race inequalities, and about in…”

“I see Sally nodding vigorously. Maybe she could come in.”

“So you will be looking at the actual costs that you could save at the same time by dealing with racism because it is iniquitous? No matter what other parties on the right of us say about not tackling diversity issues, it is clearly highly inefficient because it costs the NHS a lot of money, taking a very stark view, at…”

“Does my hon. Friend recognise that London has the highest housing costs in the whole country and a quarter of Londoners live in poverty? Coming down the track towards London is the Government’s fair funding review, under which local authorities in London could lose up to £700 million in funding. This comes after hundre…”

“There are 42, sorry.”

“So it is £40 million this year? We have made significant progress since July.”

“What was it the year before?”

“Yesterday the Minister, Stephen Kinnock, said that “we have to tackle the problems in the system at their root.” I would have thought that “at their root” means the units of dental activity. Do you have any indication that that is what he means when he talks about tackling the problems at their root?”

“We have covered a lot. Thank you all very much for coming today. I am the Member of Parliament for Chelsea and Fulham. I read the long-term plan and attempted to read the consultation, which came out at 6 pm yesterday. That was bad, as it should have come out earlier—I want to make that very clear. I do not know which …”