Speeches by Craft.

“I want to add my congratulations to the hon. Member for South Devon (Caroline Voaden) on securing this incredibly important debate. The Minister has spoken well on the process involved. If a couple are married when the father dies while the woman is pregnant, it is a relatively simple process to register that person as…”

“It is true. It is not just the previous Government. We hear concerns around access to Government consultations. It is important to note that BSL, being a language in its own right, does not follow the same grammatical rules as spoken English, so a lot of BSL first language speakers struggle with educational attainment.…”

“There you go—he has learned “scandal”.”

“Go on, Chris.”

“There is scope to be flexible. A big ask from the British Deaf Association is around education and parents—the vast majority of deaf children are born to hearing parents—and ensuring that British Sign Language tuition and lessons are available in a way that is relevant and local to all parents of a deaf child. It is ba…”

“Almost. I am interested in whether your approach going forward is to remove ringfencing in general in planning guidance.”

“There is one other thing I want to pick out. You said there is a health hub in pretty much every ICB. There is an ambition to have one in every ICB area. Is there potentially a risk that, if you remove this ringfence, ICBs that are not doing that work and do not have a hub may opt to put their funding somewhere else? Y…”

“Do you not feel that there is an appropriate case for ringfencing women’s health, if we look at the specifics? The Women and Equalities Committee identified pervasive misogyny in the healthcare system. Is there not a case to be made that ringfencing would go some way to addressing that? I understand what you said about…”

“Can you provide a list of existing ringfenced spend, and what it will look like going forward?”

“Just to follow up on the niche subject of ringfencing and what appears in planning guidance, what is your approach to planning, and how does it ensure that historically overlooked populations in healthcare do not continue to be?”

“I am here guesting today from the Health and Social Care Committee. I have been incredibly interested in your thoughts around collaborative working—how that might look going forward. I did have a question about how effective current accountability mechanisms are in that space, and I think we have probably covered that.…”

“You touched on tracking spend on individual children. Is there something in that about how accountability can follow from that? If ICBs have put x amount of resource into an individual, the onus is almost on them to make sure that that resource has been spent well. Maybe there is something on their own internal account…”

“Do you think that leadership is ministerial steer or are you looking for people who work in NHS England, for example, or at the ICB level, or is it throughout the organisation?”

“I am here guesting today from the Health and Social Care Committee. I have been incredibly interested in your thoughts around collaborative working—how that might look going forward. I did have a question about how effective current accountability mechanisms are in that space, and I think we have probably covered that.…”

“You touched on tracking spend on individual children. Is there something in that about how accountability can follow from that? If ICBs have put x amount of resource into an individual, the onus is almost on them to make sure that that resource has been spent well. Maybe there is something on their own internal account…”

“Do you think that leadership is ministerial steer or are you looking for people who work in NHS England, for example, or at the ICB level, or is it throughout the organisation?”

“The catastrophic impact of the level of debt left behind by the previous Conservative council is being felt all over Thurrock. Our services have been cut to the absolute quick, and delivery for residents is at an all-time low. Although I welcome the impact that devolution will have on growth and value for money, what r…”

“18. If she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the English devolution Bill on local public services.”

“What are those core principles? On the one hand, you said that having a single assessment framework is laudable, but on the other hand you said that you cannot unite the health and the social care sectors, because clearly you cannot have consistency across both in a single framework. What are the core principles that y…”

“I will pick up on the last point you made, and then we will move on to talk about the single assessment framework in more detail. You mentioned the backlogs that you currently have, and you have expressed that you recognise there is a need to change the way in which the CQC operates. Are you confident that you have the…”