Speeches by Beales.

“Why do you think that would be?”

“Do you feel that the challenge of maintaining support—or relative support—for sexual health services would be less if commissioning had been maintained in the NHS, rather than shifting to local authorities?”

“I thank the Secretary of State for her statement. I welcome the mention of the four tests that will be part of the review, but it must be said that scepticism is running high in Hillingdon, where the effects are greatest, and the four tests need to be more transparent. I encourage her to publish clearly what those four…”

“Let us be in no doubt: no one in this place believes that the use of hotels to house asylum seekers awaiting immigration decisions is acceptable. It is bad for the taxpayer, it is bad for our communities and, ultimately, it is bad for the asylum seekers themselves; we have heard terrible stories about the conditions th…”

“You had evidence, but KFC challenged you.”

“Is there enough guidance on and knowledge about what a healthy place looks like in terms of obesity prevention? We heard earlier about the Alexandra Rose Charity and the need to work with whole food or good food—I cannot remember the term they used exactly—businesses. Personally, I would struggle to identify in my comm…”

“Helen, in the broader planning policy landscape, hot-food takeaways are one aspect of what a local plan can do. In terms of designing healthy places and spaces, what other policies have you looked at or introduced, or would you like to introduce, through your local plans? Earlier, we heard from one witness about access…”

“Now, 2015 is a worryingly long time ago, unfortunately—it feels like yesterday, but 10 years has passed. We talked to the previous panel about changing consumer patterns, such as app-based ordering, with Deliveroo, Uber Eats and a proliferation of those on the high street. Premises are not used in exactly the same way,…”

“Who challenged you?”

“Obviously, that is a challenge. There are many empty shops on many of our high streets. Do you have evidence about what those alternative uses are?”

“Was that led by public health or by the planning team?”

“Alice, you have talked about your experience of regulating hot-food takeaways through planning policy and some really interesting statistics about the impacts of that; the Committee would welcome the evidence that you said has been gathered about that impact. Many local authorities have had an interest in developing su…”

“Lastly, do you have any thoughts about young people’s attitudes to food more generally? Wingstop recently opened in my town centre in Uxbridge, and it is so popular that it has queues around the corner—other chicken manufacturers are available. I am sure that it has some advertising, but it is just hugely popular with …”

“An apple farmer probably is not going to advertise apples—the profitability of apples, bananas and other healthy foods is such that they will largely not do advertising, compared with these big corporations. Are you saying that you want to see the Government publicising healthy foods through advertising to equal it out…”

“I have two questions for Alice and Jayda. You talked a lot about restrictions on advertising, and I want to understand your perspective more. Do you feel restrictions should be targeted at specific food items or brands associated with food items? Do you have any thoughts about how it might work in practice?”

“I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, which we all hope will bring an end to two years of awful bloodshed. I visited Israel and Palestine one month before 7 October and met civil society organisations working on a cross-community basis. It struck me how vital they will be in building a potential future long-term pe…”

“For transparency, I should declare that I was the director of the Knowledge Quarter partnership in King’s Cross and cabinet member responsible for negotiating the MSD headquarters deal. It is disappointing news today. Turning to my current constituency, I hear from a number of life sciences and pharmaceutical companies…”

“In recent days I have been contacted by many residents concerned about increasing hate crime, racist graffiti, vandalism and even violence against police at protests. Will the Leader of the House join with me in the view that there is no place for hate in Hillingdon or anywhere in the UK, that our diversity is our stre…”

“You might consider how we might collect that data in mental health services. As we all know, if people are not counted, they are not taken into account when it comes to service decisions. Whether or not those Pathway teams get recommissioned is crucial.”

“One of the Pathway teams is there.”