Speeches by Costigan.

“Thank you for coming to speak to us today. Sir Andrew, we have been talking about the Casey commission, but of course the Government have already set out some steps to transform adult social care. One in particular is bringing in a national agreement around fair and consistent pay for social care workers throughout the…”

“To follow on from that point, over the last 20 years we have had the Treasury come back on every iteration of your report, Sir Andrew, and other options put forward with the answer that it costs too much. Do you think the Treasury fully understands the overall cost of not taking action, in terms of the issues that Kath…”

“How do you think we can make that argument with the Treasury? How do we bring the Treasury to a position where they understand that—that the wider cost of doing nothing includes, for example, the amount of money that we pay out in welfare benefits?”

“Okay, although I think that a disproportionate number of murders happen at the home in the Richard Osman novels! Just to continue in that vein—it would be useful to hear from Kathryn, who kind of opened the discussion on this, but this also may be a question for Simon as well—the Treasury currently uses the Green Book …”

“As I have laid out, the Government have already taken steps to increase the funding to transition to heat pumps. I am sure the Minister will have more to say on rural communities and the particular barriers they face. Although heat pumps are extremely important in the move to wean us off gas, they do not work for every…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Brent East (Dawn Butler) for securing this important debate. I declare an interest as vice-chair of the Unison group of MPs. We have had gender pay gap reporting since 2017. Although it was a very welcome first step, it has…”

“The last Government treated mental health as a Cinderella service, with my constituents waiting days in A&E to be admitted to hospital mental health wards. The Solace Centre in Ealing Southall provides help and support in the community for those with mental health problems, at a fraction of the cost of a hospital s…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. I understand that the people who signed this petition feel angry, and a lot of people are angry in my constituency of Ealing Southall. They are angry because their kids cannot buy a home, they are angry because their parents cannot get the hip operation they n…”

“Does the Secretary of State agree that his plan to transform adult social care services has already started with Labour’s Employment Rights Bill ensuring that social care workers will get fair national pay and conditions, and increased access to training and progression? Does he further agree that we will never have a …”

“You mentioned overtime. I recognise that you are on unpaid overtime at the moment, because we have slightly overrun.”

“I have two final questions. We have an ageing population. It is great that there will be 2 million extra appointments a year, but how are you taking into account the ageing population and how will we keep pace with the level of appointments that will be needed, because of course that will go up over the years?”

“I have a quick question on that. You mentioned diagnostic tests at the weekend; how will you incentivise NHS staff to get involved in that kind of out-of-normal-hours working, particularly considering the levels of burnout that we see in the NHS?”

“You will be glad to know, Secretary of State, that I am the last questioner today. Lord Darzi’s report set out very clearly how, in their running of the NHS, the previous Government totally failed on the most fundamental requirement for the NHS, which is timely access to care. I think we had 7.6 million people on waiti…”

“Massive cuts to local government services by the previous Conservative Government have seen rough sleeping more than double and families in temporary accommodation regularly forced to move from hotel to hotel with their belongings in black sacks. I welcome the record £14.7 million in homelessness funding that the Minis…”

“This is my final question. We know that, after the last 14 years of Conservative government, we have 2.8 million people long-term sick and not in work. The IPPR report said that about 900,000 of them could work and would want to work, probably, if they got the support they needed. We published recently the plan to “Get…”

“Many disabled people in Ealing Southall are unnecessarily unemployed purely and simply because their employer refuses to respond to their request for the reasonable adjustments that they need to do their job. Will the Minister consider strengthening the right to reasonable adjustments, so that workers receive a respons…”

“You mentioned certainty of funding; my question is about voluntary community and social enterprise providers. I declare an interest: I am a Unison member, and Unison is one of the unions involved in the discussions on that. On funding, if the community stuff is done in that way with an outsourced contract, is there any…”

“Stephanie, the idea is that integrated care systems would support long-term transformation in the delivery of health and care. The Hewitt review expressed concern that that might mean they become a “nice to have”. You mention the burning platform of the pressures that face the NHS. In that context, how can we ensure th…”

“Q I was specifically asking for a comparison with the state sector. Do you think that redundancies will have a similar impact, a worse impact, or less of an impact in the private sector than in the state sector? David Woodgate: Inevitably, if pupil-teacher numbers change, that will have a negative impact.”

“Q Thank you very much for your evidence. I am a former chair of the governing body of a state school, so this is a really interesting conversation. Mr Woodgate, you mentioned that private schools might need to look at redundancies to absorb the impact of the measure. I understand that the student-teacher ratio in priva…”