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“Thank you. By the way, I think your thematic approach is a good one, based on experience.”

“That is helpful. What about the timing within which you hope to be able to achieve this?”

“Interesting. That is helpful. Just a declaration: I used to sit as the local authority representative on an ICB. It is fascinating; the NHS part does not integrate; all the mental health hospitals, primary care and all those bits do not integrate well—and the other side with the local authorities is a challenge. I note…”

“Forgive me—I will look forward, rather than backwards, on this, because there is a huge amount to do and to make better. What sort of background would you expect your chief inspector for adult social care to have?”

“Can I just come back to what my colleague Jen Craft said about one-word assessments? The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Local Government Association and others have said you should look at what Ofsted has done and stop going for the overly simplistic one-word assessments. Will you do that?”

“My constituents, many of whom work in financial services, will have been amazed, just as I was, when the shadow Chancellor, in a fit of pique, demanded that the Chancellor should come home from China to talk to him in this House, rather than staying to promote growth, increase access to the world’s second largest marke…”

“I would like to have Andrew’s view as well, but I have to say that you are making an extremely strong point. I think the council does not have the resources to undertake the depth of academic study—rigorous study—that would be needed to identify the answers to the questions you have raised. It would be helpful if that …”

“I want to throw something in. We are talking a lot about evidence and the cost of care. Andrew, your report talks about the problems of having different funding streams for health, which is free, and social care, which is not. Simon, you have said that there isn’t the money to make it free, and Kathryn, you have said t…”

“And the disabled.”

“Kathryn, you suggested that you have some concerns about how well the NHS gets it, and that it needs to sort out social care in order to achieve its own ambitions. As a former cabinet member for adult social care and health, I share those concerns. Would you like to say a bit more about that?”

“I am not here to say what should happen to the free breakfast clubs in secondary schools—we can have that debate another time. I am here to respond to anybody in this Chamber who says that the Labour party is not keeping its promises; I am reading out those promises word by word. I will talk about sewage, of which ther…”

“This is where—[Interruption.] I’m sorry; does the right hon. Gentleman want me to answer the question? [Interruption.]”

“Forgive me. Thank you very much, Mrs Harris—I appreciate that reminder. I apologise to those in the Public Gallery for turning my back on them, if I may say that through you, Mrs Harris. As we are accused of not keeping our promises, I will boringly quote from the manifesto. On new homes, we said: “Labour will get Brit…”

“Happy new year, Mrs Harris. I appreciate that everyone is looking forward to the final speech—perhaps this will be the final speech before the Front Benchers. I did not know how this debate would go, so I was very interested to come here to hear what people would say. I hope it has been somewhat useful to people who ar…”

“Mr Speaker, I take that personally, in a positive way. This is a very encouraging statement. It is great to start the new year with some good news and to be so clear that we are keeping our promises as a Government. It is also very good that we are taking the necessary time to create this cross-party consensus on socia…”

“This is where it turns into politics. By that, I mean that we very clearly promised in the manifesto not to raise income tax or national insurance on working people—that was directly understood—but the Labour party did not promise not to raise the national insurance contributions of employers, which is what has happene…”

“Are we talking about public health?”

“Thank you, Secretary of State, and thanks to Tom and Matthew for coming. It is good to see you. I have to say that it is refreshing to find a Secretary of State who gets local authorities and local government. I have been on an ICB myself. I have worked, as many people here have, in local government, and I have also be…”

“Darzi talked about damp and mould, which you touched on. As you well know, local authority funding has been denuded over the last 14 years. There is a huge problem of damp and mould for local authorities to fix. Is there an argument for some money coming from the NHS to local authorities to fix damp and mould?”

“So when you are at the Cabinet table—”