Speeches by Pinto-Duschinsky.

“Great, thank you.”

“Thank you. My final question, David, is picking up on a point you raised. It sounds like, from what you are seeing, most people are on track to meet the deadlines, but obviously not everyone will. You talked about the long tail of smaller firms in particular. What will your approach be to non-compliance in the early da…”

“Thank you. I have two final questions. Other colleagues will touch on some of the balances you need to strike as regulators, but the Chancellor issued remit letters at the end of last year asking the FCA and PRA to look at how policy and supervision can be focused more on growth. How have you adjusted your approach to …”

“Fantastic. I think this all speaks to a question about the regulatory burden on providers. I appreciate that you are going through a process that will make certain requirements of providers and it is appropriate that the FCA and other regulatory bodies regulate that, but how onerous are the duties being placed on pensi…”

“Online scams are a cause of particular concern in Hendon. A number of my constituents have been targeted, and one lost £40,000 to an online scam. Many of the scams originate overseas. What discussions has the Minister had with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology about tackling online scams and working…”

“1. What steps her Department is taking to help protect consumers against fraud.”

“Madam Chair, I am conscious that we are out of time. I am happy to put a question, but I am also happy to draw a veil, if that would be more helpful.”

“We are right on the deadline, so I will be super brief. We talked earlier about the BSR and chemicals regulation. Clearly your remit has expanded a lot. We touched on that. A report from the NAO a couple of years ago raised concerns about your capacity in respect to chemicals regulation and the rollout of the new regul…”

“One final question. I am very conscious of time, so I will be brief, but exactly to that point—and hopefully we will return to this later—obviously you are also doing this within the context of an expanding remit: chemicals regulation, building safety and so on. How has that affected this? Tied to that, you have descri…”

“Thank you. That is a very helpful answer. Turning to productivity, on the face of publicly available figures—which I appreciate are inexact—it does look as if HSE’s productivity has fallen. Again, I realise that inspections are not the only thing that HSE does by any means, but it looks like, certainly over the past no…”

“No, that is fine. I am sorry, it was a long compound question. Your latest annual report outlined you thought there would be a serious risk from the lack of financial resources, so I wanted to ask how you are addressing that risk and whether you feel you have managed it.”

“Before I begin, I would like to declare an interest. Several years ago I was involved in a piece of consultancy work with the Health and Safety Executive. I would like to focus my questioning on two areas, funding and productivity. First, funding. Obviously, Sarah, you have described that you have had to make over £100…”

“Fair enough. It is probably a good place to end and this will be true of many public policy conversations regarding the future with AI. Two very quick questions. First, obviously AI is exploding in our workplaces. What do you think the health and safety risks are? Secondly, how are you using AI to revolutionise the way…”

“We have heard lots of statistics and detailed policy questions, but I want to start by sharing two stories. The first is of Antonia Foods in Wood Green, north London. From the outside, it looked like a normal neighbourhood corner shop selling fruit, veg and groceries, but from its back room Galina Nikolova and Gyunesh …”

“As my right hon. Friend mentioned, the Conservatives did not do much on this issue except tagging on a Bill at the very end of their tenure. The Information Commissioner’s Office was very critical of the approach taken in that fraud Bill. Can she reassure the House that she has addressed those concerns?”

“Will the hon. Lady acknowledge that under the last Conservative Government inactivity rates among the young were the highest in the OECD, and that they were working on it, but it was not working?”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for her opening speech, on a timely subject as the Government have just laid out their bold and striking ambitions to grow our economy and take the tough decisions needed, after years of dither and delay by the Conservative party. Today more than on other days, we have seen laid out …”

“Each year, Holocaust Memorial Day serves as a powerful reminder of the horrors that humanity is capable of inflicting, and of where antisemitism can lead. For me, this day is not just a time to remember the 6 million Jews murdered across Europe, but an opportunity to reflect on their personal stories, including my own …”

“Thank you, Karl, for spending so much time talking to us. Stepping back from all this, what lessons do you draw? What changes do you want to see the Department make? Also, should the ombudsman make any changes in response to some of the criticism and some of this interaction?”

“Implicit in that was a view that a letter would have made a major difference, because you are imputing that they would have taken the information and acted on it. Now, that is evidence you did not look at.”