Speeches by Craft.

“What measures have you got in place to address whether or not the actions you are taking are successful?”

“Do you feel that there is a bit of a gap then that lots of people can fall through?”

“Is there a risk that if the UK online and offline markets are regulated people will then opt to go elsewhere? Does that cause concern for you?”

“Would you consider including a contraindication for use on GLP‑1s below a minimum BMI? It seems like what you were saying is that could push more people to go towards the black market rather than—”

“That would be helpful, thank you. Moving on to more data-related questions, is there any data that you can share around the extent of inappropriate prescribing, which has come up repeatedly?”

“The others have summed up basically what I would say. However, I think the work that we have done on the Committee has really shone a light on how we are on the precipice of quite a crisis regarding this issue. We can move the debate forward a bit by shining a light and seeing what comes up.”

“I thank the hon. Member for her chairship of the Health and Social Care Committee during this inquiry. As someone who has bipolar disorder, it was a really difficult experience to sit through at times, as I watched witness after witness after witness speak to what is very much my own experience. I have called myself lu…”

“Do you think that continuing care funding is sufficient to meet need at the moment for children with the most complex needs, or should it be expanded?”

“I am picking up from you that you do not feel that there is enough join-up between health and education in the publication of the White Paper and the proposals that have been put forward. Is that fair to say?”

“Coming back to continuing care, I know of several cases where people would think, “This is a child with significant and the most complex of the complex needs,” to use your phrase, but they cannot access that fund. It speaks to a broader point: these parents are not able to co-ordinate their child’s medical care or get …”

“You mentioned continuing care. I think only 10% of the most complex and serious cases that apply for it—these are children with life-limiting conditions—actually get it. Does that not speak to a wider issue in the system that even though there are supposedly funding streams that should be helping, the access and the ab…”

“To pick up on that, I think there are potential equity issues, if you have clusters of schools in, say, higher-income areas, which are going to be much more able to commission those services than ones in low-income areas. Is that fair to say as well?”

“I noticed that social, emotional and mental health were not explicitly mentioned in the areas of development, so I can see the concern.”

“Do you think that there is enough health input from DHSC, for example, in the design of the new support packages? I know they have not been unveiled yet and they are very high level, but do you think that input is coming through? I think five to seven areas of development have been published.”

“What would drive that accountability around the health part of the new system?”

“To pick up on some of the stuff about workforce, the SEND White Paper proposes schools coming together in clusters or groups—across the academy chains as well—to pool resources to deliver or commission SEND services. Is there a risk in that? Potentially, it exacerbates the situation of having a private marketplace for …”

“Are you able to get an accurate idea of the level of resource, or do you need more data and help? What do you need to understand it?”

“It would be really helpful to have an illustrative example of that. Before I hand back to the Chair, I am trying to get to the heart of what bit of what health is supposed to provide it would be useful to have on a statutory footing. Is it about the commissioning of services? Is it about early intervention and what is …”

“What I am driving at is that, in the White Paper, you have a model where you are looking at trying to avoid EHCPs, which is very much what you are speaking to—not having that demand at the higher end of the system. It sets out that people whose children are on an individual support plan, or are going through the four n…”

“Good morning. I would like to move on to what the proposed reforms in the schools White Paper might mean for that missing “H”. How confident are you? Do you think that the new tiered model proposed in the White Paper—universal, targeted, targeted plus and specialist—and the introduction of individual support plans that…”