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“Would it tell you, “You need this amount of flexible space for admin staff”?”

“Is that a floorspace guide or an actual design guide?”

“So it would be helpful to have the tools that would tell you, as a manager of your estate, “You have this amount of occupation and this amount of people occupying the rooms.” GPs typing up notes might not be the best use of the estate.”

“Do you have any experience of accessing section 106 and CIL specifically? Do you have any reflections on how that can be improved? We have heard evidence before about inflexibility and large amounts unspent, including specific health pots at local authority level.”

“On that point, Bill, we have had evidence before that the NHS should be involved in the planning system or built into the planning system. What does that look like and what does that lead to? It sounds like in your experience, Joe, and certainly in my experience when I was in charge of regeneration planning in Camden f…”

“You don’t think that involvement in the planning application is the solution?”

“In my area, two ICBs have merged, so 4 million people across north and central London are now in my ICB. In terms of the grip of local GP provision, and development opportunities coming from one of the 11 local authorities, has that become more challenging in the new super ICB structure?”

“That is a big risk, as part of the changes. As you say, the NHS Bill going through Parliament at the moment removes local authority representation on ICBs, and there is a move to a mayoral system. The mayor will usually have some sort of strategic planning approach across the city, but it is a very light touch, call-in…”

“What stops that happening now? If representation in the decision-making body for the health system does not matter and it is possible to do it through local working, why are we not working well together in that informal way now?”

“That’s helpful. Finally, you talked about the local authority having the ability to move in a different way. The local authority can borrow; there is the general fund and potentially the housing revenue account, although that is more constrained. The NHS faces quite different abilities to borrow and has quite rigid and…”

“Today has been a long time coming. I thank the Minister for her hard, relentless and committed work in delivering this comprehensive and inclusive draft Bill. We were promised it in 2018, and it has been in four King’s and Queen’s Speeches. The LGBT community will rightly welcome today’s statement, but it is unfortunat…”

“The Met police play a vital role in keeping those who work in, live in and visit London safe, including us here in this Chamber. The Labour Government and our Mayor have stepped up and increased funding, but at the same time, the unique challenges that the Met faces—policing protests, complex crimes and terrorism—have …”

“I thank the hon. Member, my constituency neighbour, for giving way on that point. There is a lot of “what about” in her remarks; will she reflect on Dr Hilary Cass’s comments that the trial will lead to less harm than would otherwise be the case? Why does she believe that Dr Cass is saying that? Does she doubt her expe…”

“My hon. Friend is making a powerful and moving speech. Further to her point, does she not agree that the Opposition’s motion to prevent a clinical trial would not give people information, options and choices? It would cut down information, options and choices. She mentioned a constituent in her 80s who clearly did not …”

“I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. The Conservative party committed to and commissioned the Cass review, and today’s statement takes forward Dr Cass’s recommendations in full—guided not by ideology, but by evidence. Some Members who are critical of that approach have said in this place that these young p…”

“The Minister is being kind with her time, as always. As part of our inquiry into mental health services, the Health and Social Care Committee visited the 24/7 neighbourhood mental health centre pilots and Trieste, where the model originated. They have clearly been hugely successful already. The Minister mentioned the b…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate, and I know that she is a strong advocate for mental health in her role on the APPG. In the NHS, it is vital that funding for mental health keeps pace with funding for physical health care, and the mental health investment standard has been a crucial policy in d…”

“A frustration I have heard about local enforcement is that even if the issues are reported—they are often not, unfortunately, because people give up—and the police come out, and an arrest is made for theft, abuse or the other things we are discussing today, the perpetrator can be back on the street that day, often comm…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. He is touching on broader sectors, and he is exactly right that this is an epidemic across public-facing and customer-facing roles. I recently went to a GP surgery where receptionists told me they deal with sometimes weekly incidents of racial abuse. They showe…”

“Capabilities come up a lot as a challenge, and the Chair has pointed to some of the 50% headcount reductions at ICB and NHS England. The Committee has talked about this previously. Do you have a sense about the headcount level of digital staff at ICB level and at NHS England level? Is it higher or lower than when the c…”