Speeches by Beales.

“Yes, that is the nature of the gender pay difference. I am trying to get to a different point. At the moment we have a carer’s allowance system, which is at a flat level. From your data about gender—and potentially ethnicity, but more work is needed on that—there might be a basis for targeting higher support at certain…”

“Yes, that is very helpful. Similarly, you point to a five-year cliff-edge point or five-year penalty. Initially there is household adaptation, which potentially causes a relatively less loss, but at that five-year point there is a cliff edge where there is suddenly a significant increase.”

“That is helpful. You have controlled for a doppelgänger. Have you done any international comparisons?”

“It would be very helpful to understand international comparisons. Would you also be able to do a doppelgänger analysis for other forms of unpaid work? In particular, would you be able to control for childcare, which is significantly unpaid, and the relative impact on someone providing unpaid childcare?”

“That is exactly the thing that we were hoping to glean from this session, but that sounds very helpful. I hope your bid will be successful.”

“It sounds very useful. Just to clarify something that my colleague mentioned, this is purely projected income loss; you are not taking into account the impact on pensions or the impact on broader benefits and welfare, both positively and negatively, for these individuals.”

“As a Committee, we have been conscious that the potential audience for our report would be the Treasury rather than the Department of Health. It is making cost-benefit analyses of a series of interventions for a series of population groups. We know what the relative income loss is for people, but we do not necessarily …”

“It probably is helpful for my understanding to see a picture, to be honest, if there is a relevant graph. From what I was reading in your presentation, no loss is acceptable for a person, but in terms of the significance of the loss, is it fair to say that that zero-to-20-hours level of intensive care is a more managea…”

“I welcome the statement today from the Secretary of State. Clearly, there is massive duplication of functions across the many regulatory, national, local and regional NHS bodies and huge room for efficiency. I want to press the Secretary of State on two points. First, will he assure me that the bonfire of bureaucracy w…”

“I am sure you will agree, Mr Speaker, that one of the best parts of being a Member of Parliament is visiting our fantastic local schools. When I have done that in recent months, I have been shocked by what I have seen. I have seen pupils at Deanesfield primary school, my old school, learning in mouldy and crumbling por…”

“Crime and antisocial behaviour affect the whole community in which they take place. They erode social cohesion, trust and pride in a place, driving people away from our town centres and making them feel insecure in their own streets and workplaces and even in their own homes. I am therefore pleased to speak in support …”

“When the Labour Government came into office last year, the NHS was in a critical state. Its fundamental promise to be there when we need it had been broken. The uplifted funding package is the first step on the road to making good that promise once again, but the pressures facing our health and care system are not over…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under you today, Ms Hobhouse, and congratulations on your first chairship. On initial reading, this is not necessarily the most exciting sounding clause—the subject is the national underground asset register—but despite the name, it is incredibly consequential for our country and our communiti…”

“Thank you, Chair. You did welcome me informally. Back in March last year, as my colleague has mentioned, the Health and Social Care Committee looked at dentistry. It became clear to the Committee at that point that there were concerns about the modelling. In its evidence, the BDA raised concerns about the modelling. Ba…”

“I am reading into that—maybe I am over-reading—that a significant process for a new contract has not started at pace yet. What would a timescale for a new contract be? I appreciate that we need to get it right and not rush it, but what would you envisage? I think we have all accepted that we need a new contract. That i…”

“Thank you for that explanation. Reading between the lines, I think it is fair to say that the process for a new dental contract has not started yet.”

“You have talked about the need not to rush. I think that is true—we need to get this right—but what timescales are you working to regarding a new dental contract? Has the process started, and what do you envisage as the end date for an updated dental contract?”

“The Health and Social Care Committee, of which I was not a member at the time, is a respected Committee of this place. It heard the concerns about the modelling and raised them formally in its inquiry. It sounds as if those concerns were true. They were put to the Department and NHS England, but no action was taken. In…”

“Yes, just briefly. I am guesting today on behalf of the Health and Social Care Committee.”

“So we have not started the process significantly yet.”