Speeches by Craft.

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It is key to recognise the role that farmers can play in rewilding and embracing biodiversity. In Thurrock, there are farmers who are doing excellent work in rewilding some of their land to make sure that species can thrive and continue to grow. It is not only on farmlan…”

“The question is how are you tracking what interventions are successful? For example, one learning from the covid-19 pandemic was that behavioural scientists did not use nudge techniques enough. Are you looking at behavioural science? Are you looking at ways to nudge? How are you tracking what works?”

“I am grateful to the hon. Lady for mentioning biomass power, as I have a specific issue in my constituency, where the fuel that is used to power a biomass generator has unfortunately generated a significant amount of dust, causing a heavy amount of air pollution in the local area. It is a form of green energy, but it u…”

“Is there anything in place to monitor levels of disinformation and misinformation on a wider scale, and a strategy to counter that? Community groups are fantastic at a granular, local level, and I appreciate your being able to provide that example. On a wider level, what people are picking up from social media perhaps …”

“What is driving that lack of confidence among health professionals? That is another question leading on from my colleague’s question earlier.”

“You cannot just be parachuted in to solve a brief thing. Do you think that there is an issue around the type of people who are served by the HOPE(S) programme, almost because it is such a low prevalence per ICB, but also perhaps it is people who are not always at the forefront of commissioners’ and planners’ imaginatio…”

“It needs a highly specialist service to do so.”

“To clarify, one standout thing for me in Baroness Hollins’ report was that there is no therapeutic benefit to long-term segregation. I wanted to make that clear to the Committee as well. The results you have had from HOPE(S), you have said, have been highly successful for patients, professionals and the wider NHS.”

“Going forward, what would help? Would it be a continued national roll-out of the programme or even on a regional basis? What would work?”

“Is it that, within an organisation, you need an outside perspective to break that almost cultural, institutionalised way of doing things and that is what a national approach helps to do?”

“You said that there is quite a lot of variation. When you go to different regions, do you find that there are any cultural differences in how to adopt a programme that is so unique and different and embodies such a different approach?”

“Would you say that there is something in having highly specialised staff carrying out the programme that perhaps you might not be able to find at a hyper-local, regional or local ICB level?”

“Is that taking away from time that you would be spending making clinical interventions?”

“I should have said this at the beginning—apologies, Chair. I meant to declare an interest, which is that I chair the all-party parliamentary group on learning disability. Thank you to my colleague here for reminding me about that. What kind of support do you wish would have been available? What would have been more hel…”

“Jennifer, when you first undertook your programme, what support was available nationally to roll it out?”

“It was a pleasure to serve under the chairmanship of my hon. Friend during our Committee’s inquiry into the first 1,000 days of life. I was particularly struck by how, at this crucial period in a child’s lifetime—for those who are not aware, the 1,000 days begins at the moment of conception and goes up until they are t…”

“Does anyone else have anything on that?”

“But you would broadly support something that makes it clear and does not allow health claims to overawe fats, salt and sugar?”

“I would hope to see it change, because I would reflect that at the moment in some of the poorer areas of my constituency, that is not necessarily the case. That is what I have had reported back to me. Liz, I will pick up briefly on what you were saying about the nutrient profile model and the concerns about it. You men…”

“Would you not support a nutrient profiling model that makes that crystal clear? I keep coming back to the example of Coco Pops—my colleagues know that I seem to have a vendetta against that particular breakfast cereal. That packet has several health claims on it—on fibre, on protein—but the sugar content of that cereal…”