Speeches by Beales.

“We heard compellingly from the previous panel, which I know you sat in on, about the need for shifting awareness about the realities of gambling, the harms, and for breaking down stigma related to approaching services for support if people are struggling with gambling addiction. The Government have also talked previous…”

“Tim, would you like to come in on that?”

“We have heard that the level of harm is comparable to alcohol—that was the previous panel’s summation. Professor Bowden-Jones, you have talked compellingly about the level of suicides related to gambling. Do you think we should be looking at similar restrictions on the advertising and marketing of gambling, particularl…”

“Have you any sense that there has been a step down towards that deadline? It feels to me like they are stepping up, rather than stepping down.”

“I understand that 55% of Premier League clubs are now sponsored by gambling companies. It does not seem like many are volunteering at the moment.”

“It’s an open question, really, to whoever feels most expert to answer.”

“We heard quite compellingly from the previous panel about the role of advertising and marketing. Do you think the fact that 55% of Premier League clubs are now sponsored by gambling companies, and the proliferation of online advertising in all the forms we heard about, is aiding cultural change, improving understanding…”

“Q6. Hundreds of residents in my constituency at Union Park are facing massive £1 million charges to repair their heating system and for fire safety works that have not been put right by the developer, which has now declared bankruptcy and walked away. Their new freeholder has washed its hands of responsibility and is i…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bedford (Mohammad Yasin) for securing this important and timely debate on the issues in our constituencies in respect of our fantastic higher education institutions. I have the pleasure of representing Brunel University…”

“That is helpful. There are more questions than answers at this stage. I suppose we are trying to get a sense of what you would, ideally, want to see from the emerging reforms. It feels like you are saying, a slimmed down and more focused centre, and more emboldened local leadership, which we hear is the direction of tr…”

“Does the hon. Gentleman welcome the significant uplift in public health funding from this Government? Or the fact that there is a third more homelessness funding, a significant and additional uplift in local government funding and millions more to be spent on potholes, one of the biggest levels in London? I could go on…”

“I do—we have to consider the costs that outer London boroughs face, as well as London more generally. As has been said excellently by my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton and Wanstead (Mr Bailey), London is special; it is different, and it faces extra costs and pressures. That is the case right across London. This very…”

“Last, but not least. It is a pleasure—less of a pleasure now, but it was a pleasure—to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I echo the points my colleagues have made about the unprecedented financial pressures on London councils. While we need to tackle temporary accommodation, the SEND crisis and much more—that i…”

“Thank you very much for joining us today. It has been reported that many Health Ministers and Secretaries of State since the Lansley reforms have reported frustrations about ever-increasing—or perhaps never-diminishing—levels of political accountability for the performance of the health service. Ultimately, at election…”

“That is a helpful summary of your view of the system. Your assessment is that we currently have an overcentralised system with NHS England; what is your view of the potential change, with the assumption of some of those responsibilities—we do not know at what level—at the Department of Health and Social Care? Do you th…”

“Matthew, that is a fair challenge to the question. If the crucial part is where the balance lies—empowering the system locally and then holding it to account on a discrete set of measures—what that is done by the centre today needs to stop? What functions of either DHSC, NHS England or other aspects of the centre do yo…”

“This is a general point, but is there ever an aspect of healthcare that does not in some way deal with another aspect of healthcare? If you shift that responsibility locally, would we suddenly have an integrated health and care system where all parts of the system planned and worked together?”

“My question was how, as a patient, do you hold local leadership to account in the new system? At the moment, patients tell us it is quite hard to navigate the health system. As we discussed, Ministers are seen as very accountable, but in your ideal model of a slimmed down centre, focused on a reduced number of things, …”

“We heard from the previous panel about some of the core national functions that should really be done nationally—healthcare planning, say, or digital capability, for which NHSE was responsible and which was subsumed into NHS Digital. Do you think those core functions and driving the rapid change we want in digital and …”

“My point was that in income terms it is a greater loss, but as a percentage of the starting income, which is lower for women, it is greater.”