Speeches by Beales.

“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…”

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

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“Is that looking at the voluntary sector as well? You talked about the local authority in terms of honorary contracts, but we have heard about the voluntary sector, which—as you have touched on already—is a crucial element in Somerset. Even in Somerset, this issue has come up as a major challenge. Open Mental Health in …”

“Good morning. Digital integration, digital interoperability and the sharing of patient data have been key challenges that we have heard about in our inquiry, and something that you have touched on already in terms of issues and learnings from some of the pilots. I want to press further on some of the specifics of what …”

“Some of this is quite basic. We have heard about the multidisciplinary nature of mental health work. What you envisage from the community mental health hubs is going to be quite multidisciplinary. You have touched on some of that already. We have heard, for example, that 70% of social workers have basic, poor IT; there…”

“There is no funding or guidance centrally to enable that for community mental health services.”

“We have heard that, as you touched on regarding the local authority having a separate system, the voluntary sector will also have a separate IT system that is potentially quite underdeveloped and under-resourced. It will not have any permissions or ability to access NHS data because of those guardian-based issues. If t…”

“Definitely. Localism is important, but there is also efficiency—I think that was the word I just heard. If you find ways that work, you do not necessarily need to see 100 ways of working around the digital barriers that might be present, particularly when you are piloting something that demonstrates to the system the w…”

“Would you say that you are confident that the pilots will be able to show a way forward for digital integration and interoperability for the roll-out? Are you confident that the learnings from the pilot will quite clearly demonstrate how, on roll-out, we will solve these problems?”

“Digital and data will be a key part of that evaluation piece, in terms of the pilots and the associate sites.”

“That is really welcome, Minister. I have met with Samaritans, who highlighted that many frontline workers and emergency services workers do not have mandatory training around suicide prevention and dealing with suicide. I have met paramedics and Metropolitan police staff who have had no training in how to deal with sui…”

“That is welcome. I hope that the Government will provide some guidance to public sector organisations to enable staff to have the time to do that. Last, I have a slightly different question about data; it is about the quality of data. I recently met an organisation to discuss people in the health and mental health syst…”

“One of the Pathway teams is there.”

“Those Pathway teams have a major impact, but one of the challenges in the health system is that there just is not consistent recording of whether individuals in settings are homeless or not.”

“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.”

“Despite some of the heat in the debate, the misquoting of things that have been said and the unfortunate politicisation of this important local issue, about which there is general agreement among Members of all parties and in the community, the consensus that I hear is that people want more accessible services, more lo…”

“My constituency neighbour perfectly describes the very difficult situation in Hillingdon inherited by the trust leadership and this Government, such as the hotels opened under the Conservatives putting pressure on the local system. I am pleased that the Government have committed to close hotels across the country and d…”