Speeches by Craft.

“Jim, if I could just briefly touch a little on reformulation in out-of-home settings, is there anything that is currently being done in the sector to look at reformulation more widely?”

“Then it comes back to the question, is it fit for purpose? If I give Coco Pops to my three-year-old—I have a three-year-old, she is not hypothetical—every single morning, is that healthy, or is that setting her up to develop dental cavities, obesity and a whole range of problems?”

“Am I okay to give that to my three-year-old every single morning?”

“Can you not see how that is confusing? If you are purchasing something for your child in the morning, you need to get them fed and ready for school. You have something that has several health claims on the packet, but you are not making a decision based on the sugar content. It can be really blurred landscape. Is Coco …”

“A few vitamins and minerals.”

“I would also like to extend my sympathies to the family of Sarah Everard. Like many people, I found that my trust in the police service was fundamentally shaken by the events that led up to Sarah Everard’s murder. That was reinforced later when I saw how badly the vigil was handled—or mishandled—by the Metropolitan pol…”

“The right hon. Gentleman is talking about two completely opposite ends. He says his party wants to invest in and find a way forward on social care, but he is opposing something minimal that will raise the living standards of those who work in the industry. Which one is it: does he want to invest in social care or not?”

“I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for mentioning our campaign. As she said, we both care very much about the return of the Gravesend-Tilbury ferry, which is a vital part of local public transport infrastructure. Our plea is for a very small proportion of the projected toll of the lower Thames crossing to be use…”

“Looking forward to the change in the workforce strategy, the previous long-term workforce plan showed the NHS broadly meeting workforce demand by 2036-37. Do you think that is an accurate forecast? Have there been significant changes in demand since that workforce plan was made that perhaps the new one should reflect?”

“I assume that the situation is fairly similar for community nursing in terms of data. A bit more widely, do you find that, if you look at regional disparities, those gaps tend to exist across the board, but in very specific communities, so if you are under-GPed you will be under-prescribing-pharmacisted and under-commu…”

“That is lovely. Are there similar geographical gaps in nursing and pharmacy, and do you have the data that you need to be able to plot that?”

“You get people in supermarkets saying, “Can you have a look at my leg?” and so on.”

“It is interesting. It reflects exactly what our very junior GPs have said to me, especially ones who are very new to the profession. They want to be working out of one practice. They do not want to be a locum.”

“Would you look at historical data as well? I do not want to harp on about my patch, but it is close to my heart. We are historically under-GPed. We have very unique geographical challenges, being so close to London. You can earn roughly £7,000 to £10,000 more a year if you just walk 10 feet up the road. Would historica…”

“That is really interesting. Do you think targeted intervention would be more effective?”

“ICBs have not necessarily been given the resource they need that meets that local population.”

“Interestingly, my constituency is not rural, in London or in the north-west, but we have one of the worst shortages of GPs in the country. We are under-doctored in Thurrock. We are quite often hovering near the bottom. I think we were the worst a few years ago. Is there something around targeting where GPs are needed, …”

“Q12. Last week, the covid inquiry reported that 23,000 deaths occurred in England in the first wave of the pandemic that could have been prevented due to the UK response being too little, too late. Those were not just 23,000 deaths; they were 23,000 people who had family and friends who loved them, and valuable lives t…”

“Good morning. If we start with the current supply and demand, are there any areas, either geographical or within your specialism, that are particularly acute, where demand is not being met by supply?”

“To come back to the point that Alex made earlier that you do not need alcohol or cigarettes but you do need food, given some of the stuff that you have brought here today, do we need to come up with a definition of “food” when talking about what people need to sustain them, give them energy and allow them to carry on w…”