Speeches by Stafford.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. What an inspiring tour we have had of museums up and down the nation. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) for securing the debate and inspiring speeches about so many opportunities. She mentioned everything from Zeppelins to Gurkhas. I …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I am extraordinarily grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Blake Stephenson), who has campaigned tirelessly for a GP surgery in Wixams in his constituency. I was delighted to hear that his campaigning is beginning to bear fruit, and I wish…”

“The name of the Labour Member of Parliament whose husband has been arrested is circulating widely via the media. I do not intend to name that Member of Parliament, but if the reports are true, that Member of Parliament sits on a Select Committee that would have sensitive, maybe even secret, information and, through tot…”

“Jimmy Lai now faces a jail term described by Ministers as an effective life sentence. It is clear that his life sentence directly reflects this Government’s weak policy on China, so will the Minister tell us what clear steps she and the Prime Minister are taking, and—more importantly—what sanctions she and the Prime Mi…”

“7. What recent discussions she has had with her Chinese counterparts on the release of Jimmy Lai.”

“Why, if the Secretary of State is allowing 16-year-olds to vote, is he not allowing them to stand for Parliament? If somebody can vote for the lawmaker, they can be a lawmaker. That is the logical incoherence in his argument.”

“I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s comments about our service personnel in Bahrain and Akrotiri, which I had the pleasure of visiting in the summer. It is difficult to know where to start with the confusion and cognitive dissonance shown in the Prime Minister’s statement. He is against attacking Iran because …”

“It is clear that the Secretary of State is totally uninterested in the reality of what is happening in the industry because of the EPL. A thousand jobs a month are being lost as a direct result of the Government’s decision, all the while we are importing more at a higher cost with high emissions, jobs are being lost, i…”

“4. What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of the energy profits levy on the oil and gas sector in Scotland.”

“Dr McCullough, do you have a view on this, with your experience?”

“As a GP, would you welcome an obesity specialty separate from those working in hospital settings and the acute sector—secondary care?”

“Moving on to what you just mentioned, Dr Stewart, we held a roundtable with people who had experience of accessing weight loss management and treatment. A lot of them said that they had to essentially fight to get the treatment in the first place, and many of them felt that the healthcare professionals they interacted …”

“Just to take what you are saying further, what demonstrable impact would that have on how services are delivered and the outcomes for patients?”

“Sorry—within the specialty.”

“Turning to the workforce, why doesn’t obesity have its own specialty? Should that change, and, if so, what impact do you think having a specific specialty within the royal colleges would have on treatment outcomes for obesity?”

“I am going to delve into that in a minute. Obviously, GPs can also specialise—not in the same way as in hospital medicine, but you can have areas of specialty within general practice. Could there be specialty GPs for obesity, as there are for older people and so on?”

“He wants your job! [Laughter.]”

“The fact that the taskforce has not even met, seven months later, tells us everything we need to know about how urgent and important the Government consider this issue. In Leeds, families are losing faith in the failing maternity services. The Secretary of State said that he takes the matter “extremely seriously”, yet …”

“Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Seven months ago, the NHS 10-year plan promised a maternity taskforce. May I ask the Minister how many times it has met?”

“I am moving on to talk about the access side. First, Mr McCaul, how effectively is the NHS using the capacity of community pharmacies to deliver vaccinations? What could be done to enable pharmacies to expand that role?”