Speeches by Beales.

“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?”

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

“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.”

“Good morning, Minister. Thanks for joining us. I am going to ask you a few questions about vaccination rates, which the Committee has heard a considerable amount of evidence about during our inquiry. Since 2021-22, we have seen considerable falls in vaccination rates for mothers and babies in the 1,000 critical days pe…”

“Back to vaccinations and the gonorrhoea vaccine: what lessons have been learned from the roll-out of the mpox vaccine programme in terms of tackling equality issues? Often, in that roll-out, it was again health literate people accessing services who navigated them, booked and got their mpox vaccine. What are you doing …”

“Are you doing that as part of the gonorrhoea vaccine? What funding is available for that activity, outreach and public messaging?”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Sam Rushworth) for bringing this important discussion. My hon. Friend the Member for Rugby (John Slinger) rightly points out the survival challenge. We know that survival is improved with quick access to these vital devices. Many Members have described deserts of a…”

“T5. Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting in Parliament the Outcomes First Group, a group of specialist SEND schools. They presented their proposals for fixing the broken SEND system, including supporting more children in mainstream education, supporting collaboration between schools and upskilling teachers. Does th…”

“I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish an independent regulator of managing agents; to make provision about the powers and duties of the independent regulator; to require managing agents to comply with a code of practice and to make provision about that code of practice; to make provision fo…”

“We have seen strategic health authorities and PCTs become CCGs and ICSs and then ICBs. Now we have got ICBs plus ICOs. Do you think the structures are suitably different to drive different outcomes? Are the fundamental issues about financial flows and incentives for prevention significant enough? Do you feel that the r…”

“Is that different from PCTs, or ICBs through ICPs?”

“To follow up on that question, I want to ask about capital spending in the health service as part of the 10 year plan. In terms of the NHS neighbourhood hubs, will there be any specific capital investment to enable the roll-out of neighbourhood hubs, or is this solely leaning on a future—”

“That is without private sector investment, the 40 to 50?”

“Sorry to interrupt, but time is short. Is a payment penalty enough to change that, or is it a change of leadership, a change of culture, or investment?”

“I certainly agree with that. In terms of patient power payments, on financial incentives, what would stop sink hospitals or sink services developing under patient power payments? Those are services that are already struggling financially, and patients then move their care or seek to move their patient power payments to…”

“They will have to work together operationally and in terms of—”

“What does that mean? To me, that sounds quite similar to a person on a board. How will it look different from a person on a board?”

“There is always public health and there is always social care. What would make them work with—”

“The plan talks about private financing of revenue-generating assets: car parks or energy facilities. Should we expect increasing patient charges for car parks, food and other associated goods to enable this capital investment? Are you confident that patient charging through these other routes—”

“On the PPPs and learning the lessons of PFIs, which you touched on slightly, what will be the assurance process of local agreements? Will the Department provide very clear guidance to avoid the contracting mistakes that we saw under PFI?”