Speeches by Beales.

“I thank the Chair and the Committee for hearing the application for a general debate on community audiology services or services for people who are experiencing hearing loss. Why? The issue affects a significant number of people—almost 12 million, and projected to rise to nearly 15 million by 2035. It is an issue that …”

“Sorry to interject. We are falling behind. The national target was taken out of the planning guidance for vaccination rates and the pace of localism is slow. The pilot of health visitors, for instance, will potentially take a number of years from now to roll out at significant scale. Based on the seriousness of the iss…”

“As part of this Committee’s inquiry into the first 1,000 days of life, we have heard worrying information and testimony about the performance on child vaccination rates. It has been well reported recently, with outbreaks in Merseyside and, unfortunately, children dying from preventable conditions. This is not helped, a…”

“Lastly, the league tables, which you mentioned as a key part of the overall framework, came out today for trusts. There are different views about league tables. I do not want to get into that. Clearly, in presenting a large group of trusts as either failing or lower down, there is a risk reputationally in terms of recr…”

“It would be very helpful if you could share some examples with the Committee of where you have taken intervention where you have seen ICBs or trusts potentially reducing key transformation-based activity or things that might impact productivity. It would be very helpful to see those examples.”

“Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. The 10-year plan and the spending review commitments are all premised on quite ambitious productivity improvements in the NHS, beyond what has been achieved previously. How confident are you that the NHS meet these productivity targets?”

“We will come on to the league tables. On the specifics of the NHS productivity plan, how would you judge its delivery and implementation so far? Can you share anything about the plans, metrics or where we are against those milestones? Are we on track based on the productivity plan’s assumptions? Are we off track? In te…”

“The hon. Gentleman says nothing has changed, yet again, but does he not welcome—as I do, as a constituency MP with a significant amount of military housing around RAF Northolt—the significant £1 billion-plus investment into military housing and the insourcing back into public ownership of thousands of MOD homes, after …”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Sir Jeremy. The vast majority of us want a more balanced and managed migration system built on the principles of contribution and fairness. That is what I hear from constituents in all walks of life in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. However, the question is: how do we get the…”

“I do not know what correspondence the right hon. Gentleman is looking at, but the correspondence I receive from my constituents in Hillingdon does not tell a story of a sector that is secure and safe; instead, my constituents tell me that they are battling damp and mould, and have had 35% rent increases in recent years…”

“The Bill before us is one of the most important and impactful Bills currently before Parliament. I say that not as someone who has seen a few emails in my inbox, but as someone who has felt the impact of the sector, having experienced homelessness twice in my teenage years and having been evicted through a section 21 e…”

“We are considerably off. I take your point that there might have been, in data that we have not seen, a slight shift on some measures, but on 14 measures there have been quite consistent decreases since 2022-23.”

“I am in Hillingdon borough, the one that does not participate with the other 31 boroughs, so I feel your pain.”

“Just very briefly, Richard and Kat, from a community end provider’s perspective, if there is one hope for the new plan, what would it be?”

“When do you expect the plan to be published?”

“What have you heard from that process, from the community and the range of stakeholders? What are the key messages you have heard?”

“Lastly, I will turn to the action plan process. Cathy, and potentially Amanda from an NHS England perspective, what lessons have you taken from the current action plan, or outgoing action plan, in terms of its success—or lack of—in reaching the 2030 goals? Where are we with the updated action plan?”

“First, I am just going to declare for transparency purposes that I used to work with Kat, and I am very close with Richard from when I was at the National AIDS Trust—it is nice to see a number of you again today. Turning to HIV and access to PrEP, first, I have a question for Richard. We have seen persistent inequaliti…”

“Richard, do you have any thoughts about the effectiveness of the current approach from the voluntary and community sector, or what else is needed to reach those groups?”

“Is it realistic for local authorities to deliver national messages to quite small population groups for a national vaccine?”