Speeches by Egan.

“A painful lesson of Israeli and, indeed, Jewish history is that when someone says that they want to destroy them, we must believe them. The Iranian regime has made its intentions to destroy Israel clear for decades now. We will all be familiar with the term “never again”, which came out of the concentration camps of Eu…”

“The right approach is so important. It will need to be mindful of variation in performance. As with anything, whether it is local government or when things are devolved—we see this currently where programmes have been devolved—you get a difference in performance, so it is about taking on and looking carefully at those …”

“This is not one to comment on now, but work coaches were reporting to us, on actively learning English, that they feel they did not have the tools at their disposal—they were technically there but not being used—around trying to make sure that people do. My next question is about the role of local government. When I wa…”

“I welcome and am grateful for the appreciation of and focus on work coaches, in particular, and around jobcentres. When I became an MP and did visits to my local jobcentre, I got the sense of how they had not been heard and low morale is. I am looking forward to going back; hopefully that is filtering through. I want t…”

“You have answered my next question.”

“It is what we need to guard against. You said, data security still need local discretion and the risks of everything landing on the household support fund. Anything else you would add to that? To what extent would sharing information from priority services registers help?”

“I was going to ask a question about to what extent energy companies have the data that they need to target pensioners. Based on the comments you have already put, it is not just energy companies, local authorities and energy networks were mentioned as well. Are there any others? Then where should they be getting data? …”

“I have a couple of questions on Sure Start. You have covered much of it, but Naomi, I was really interested when you talked about the reciprocal agreement with Sure Start users. I want to ask about the importance of local input. My background is local government so when I think of that I think of speaking to the counci…”

“Damien Egan. I represent Bristol North East.”

“Damien Egan. I represent Bristol North East.”

“I have a couple of questions on Sure Start. You have covered much of it, but Naomi, I was really interested when you talked about the reciprocal agreement with Sure Start users. I want to ask about the importance of local input. My background is local government so when I think of that I think of speaking to the counci…”

“T3. With the defence review coming, alongside the welcome extra investment in defence, how will things change so that more school leavers in Bristol can learn about the opportunities in the military and across Bristol’s wider defence sector?”

“It would be interesting to know whether particular demographics are more at risk of going down an unguided route.”

“Do we have enough information about the outcomes for people who have sought advice once they get to retirement, compared with the outcomes for people who make their own decisions? Can we tell people that retirement has performed this or that much better for people who have had advice?”

“I will take us to the exciting question of what a default retirement solution could look like.”

“We will come to that one.”

“I want to take us forward to retirement. As part of the King’s Speech, the Government announced measures to require pension schemes to offer default retirement solutions. Do you think default retirement solutions will improve outcomes for savers?”

“Rhian, you have called for more meaningful equality impact assessments and age-proofing of policy proposals. Would you like to see any changes in how the DWP assesses the impact of its policies? Are there any particular policies that would benefit from that kind of review?”

“It is interesting, because in England it is much more devolved around local authorities and you see really big variations.”

“Thank you very much.”