Speeches by Tufnell.

“Abigail, do you recognise that, in terms of duplication?”

“Building on what Henrietta just set out, evidence has been submitted that the licence process is overly complex, slow and impractical, and that it had to go to Ministers for personal approval in order to get that through. That does not necessarily sit well with what Henrietta just set out. Can you comment on that, Sall…”

“The big complaint was that there was no comprehensive assessment of cutting or non-management scenarios in respect of the evidence base that you set out.”

“You started by referring to the statement of values and principles that you said had been helpful in improving the patient experience. I am going to read out two of those principles now. The first is, “Both countries will act in the best interest of patients at all times, and there will be no delay in accessing healthc…”

“Yes.”

“Does that concern you?”

“Thank you. Can I come back to the question that Ben asked earlier about the JCC? We have had evidence from Llais and others. Let me quote some of the written evidence from Llais: “When something goes wrong, people don’t know whether to complain to the English provider, the Welsh health board, or both. Different timesca…”

“Why is there this gap between the patient’s experience and what we have heard? That is what I was driving at.”

“Building on what Henrietta just set out, evidence has been submitted that the licence process is overly complex, slow and impractical, and that it had to go to Ministers for personal approval in order to get that through. That does not necessarily sit well with what Henrietta just set out. Can you comment on that, Sall…”

“Are you able to put a figure on it?”

“Have you anything to add, Abigail?”

“As a Welsh MP, I want to bring in this aspect around devolution. Keeping with controlled fires and prescribed burning, obviously you have different regimes. In Wales, we have a burning season. As Natural England, how do you interact with those devolved regimes, and how do you learn from them? What is that process like?”

“Do you think those values and principles should be legally binding?”

“My final question is about whether you think this is working. What aspects of the collaboration require the greatest improvement in respect of your individual health boards and the JCC? I will start with Phil.”

“It sounds like a very minimum interaction.”

“I want to quickly follow up on Gerald’s question with you, Phil. Ben and Ann have left, but you presumably face additional challenges in your area given the level of distance—you have to cover Carmarthen all the way up to Borth. The geographical area is greater than what some of your colleagues on the call cover. Do yo…”

“On the point about the assessment made by Link under statute, does the hon. Gentleman agree that the three-mile radius that is being used by Link is totally inadequate when looking at rural areas such as mine in Pembrokeshire?”

“We had the Groceries Code Adjudicator in, and there has been a rise from 30% to 32% in terms of suppliers reporting a code issue with supermarket retailers. We had Mark White in, who said there was a need to remind retailers that compliance is important, thinking about the teeth and the need to enforce.”

“In terms of the concentration of supermarket power, you have nine major retailers accounting for 94.5% of all retail food in the UK. The starter for 10 is whether that helps or harms the resilience piece that we have been talking about, particularly during geopolitical shocks.”

“Are you concerned that manufacturers are going to be forced to absorb more of those costs because of the fact that you have that inherent power imbalance, and because of the fact that there are nine and they dominate nearly 95% of the market?”