Speeches by Beales.

“Should we have clearer national leadership and mandation of collecting information in A&Es and the coroner service on when admissions and deaths may relate to chemsex?”

“Is there a need for the national strategy that we have heard about to pick up this area and to provide the system with some more leadership? It is complex, we do not understand it and no one is routinely collecting the information. As you say, in that interrelationship between the many different services, they may or m…”

“I want to come back to you on the point about councillors because it is important to draw a line under that. I take your experience, but would you say it is not just councillors who are making decisions in this space? Ultimately, professionals are doing needs assessments and recommending services. A lot of programmes a…”

“I suppose we have moved to opting out, on the basis that we should not say, “Do you need a condom?” or “Do you need a HIV test?” because of the stigma associated with that. Do you have any data on the numbers of free condoms that are available, or on the number of people who would like a condom but cannot afford to pur…”

“Should we be asking people whether they want them? I got told, “Here’s your bag.” They were everywhere. It was so easy to just grab some and have them.”

“Once. When I was coming into sexual awareness, you couldn’t really move for free condoms. Every time you went to a clinic you left with a bag, whether you liked it or not. Every bar that I went to had free condoms in baskets everywhere. It was so easy to access affordable condoms. Even in some schools at the time, you …”

“On condom use, I remember being young once—”

“Thank you for joining us. I have some questions about funding, prioritisation and service resilience. In one sense, sexual health services doing far more with much less is a success story. Their productivity with real-terms reductions in funding is a lesson for the NHS about doing much more with constrained budgets, bu…”

“You talked about assessing and responding to need. Do you have a sense of what the unmet need is at the moment? We heard from the first panel about mystery shopping in our constituencies. It seems that, rather than responding to needs, a lot of our constituents who are symptomatic in a walk-in sense just cannot access …”

“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…”

“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?”

“Who challenged you?”

“You had evidence, but KFC challenged you.”

“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,…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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?”

“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…”

“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 …”