Speeches by Robertson.

“Earlier, you said that, perhaps surprisingly, people in rural areas are less likely to exercise, when it would seem that they had more casual opportunity to do so. Where do you think the balance is between ensuring that there are facilities and opportunities locally for organised healthy activity, and encouraging casua…”

“Can I start by thanking you, Professor Whitty, for highlighting the particular issues for coastal areas, as an MP who represents a coastal area? Can I take you back—or forward—to strength and balance? It has been identified—it is not controversial to say—that maintaining muscle strength, balance and flexibility is impo…”

“7. What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of civil service recruitment.”

“The Government are restricting applications to the civil service fast stream summer internship programme in favour of those kids who they deem to be from working-class backgrounds. What does the Minister have to say to the children of hard-working nurses, police officers and teachers who will now not get the same oppor…”

“And the same goes for the role of condoms as being about more than just pregnancy and HIV?”

“Can I go back to some of the comments around awareness of HIV and using condoms? Is there a role here for public health campaigns? I am thinking of previous decades. I hope that in schools we have not gone backwards but have advanced in terms of sex education and sexual health. Is there a role for public-facing campaig…”

“Richard, when you opened, you talked about alternatives to in-person services, the challenges, and not making assumptions that people would be comfortable with testing kits delivered to their home. How can we do more to design better alternatives to in-person services?”

“I see the Health Secretary is having a bust-up with the Chancellor over who pays his £1.3 billion redundancy bill for breaking up NHS England. Will he guarantee that, once he has resolved his differences with the Chancellor, not a single penny will be taken from delivering frontline health and social care services or f…”

“Schools on the Isle of Wight have some of the most serious challenges to levels of attainment. The Isle of Wight council is a small unitary authority with unique challenges in an area disconnected from the UK mainland. What will the Government do to better support education on the Isle of Wight, rather than resort to t…”

“I understand the point about implementation locally, but you are not arguing for discretion for local councils to use those powers—were they to exist—in their own way. You want national standards and national decision making that is uniform across the country.”

“Would you like to see greater powers for councils to restrict outdoor advertising, regardless of who owns the advertising space?”

“So you would like to see greater restrictions on that type of advertising, but exercised centrally rather than at the local government level.”

“Good morning. Alice, you have already started to touch on my line of questioning, which relates to changes you would like to see in national planning policy and guidance that would support you to do more to create healthier local environments. Are you able to elaborate a bit more on that?”

“We have been told in written evidence that some councils are restricting the advertising of unhealthy foods on council-owned assets. Is that happening in your areas? If so, are you able to assess the impact that it has had?”

“Helen, is there anything that you want to add about national planning policy changes that you would like to see?”

“You said that in Gateshead you are already innovating in this area; I think you suggested that you have gone as far as you can, given the national policy framework. Is there anything else you can tell us about how you have innovated and how far you have managed to go in Gateshead?”

“Will my right hon. Friend give way?”

“My right hon. Friend is being very generous. At the weekend, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade appeared to say that the Government believed it was “worth the risk” of appointing Lord Mandelson from the outset. As I heard it, what the Business Secretary was saying was that for the positive qualities Lord Man…”

“T4. The Attorney General has claimed that we need the European convention on human rights and the European Court to solve the illegal migration crisis—an extraordinary claim. Will the Minister please explain, therefore, how Australia managed to tackle its migration problems and how the US is managing to implement our R…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”