Speeches by Robertson.

“What is the consequence ultimately for an ICB that fails to deliver on the savings? What are you ultimately saying to them?”

“Even with your best intentions, it sounds like English devolution could hold up the final process.”

“By way of finishing, can I ask you my original question that Glen Burley answered from his perspective? Do you have any concerns about the 50% cuts to operating budgets with ICBs? Do you have any concerns that those could lead to fewer clinics, fewer staff and ultimately longer waiting lists?”

“Good afternoon. How can you be sure that the 50% cuts that you are requiring from ICBs will not simply translate into fewer clinics, fewer staff and longer waits for patients?”

“You are reducing the operating costs of the commissioners who are responsible for the large majority of commissioned services locally in hospitals. How are they expected to operate on half their previous allocated budget and for that not to be a risk to delivering frontline services?”

“Clearly, some ICBs are struggling and in some cases potentially declining to continue with the cost-saving programme due to their belief in the impact that it will have. As the deadline for implementation approaches, how are you working with ICBs to address those concerns? What is the ultimate position that you hold, i…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I want to begin by thanking my right hon. Friend the Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) for bringing us this debate and for speaking so eloquently. It is always good to see colleagues from across the House, particularly my neig…”

“As the Solicitor General knows, I have been campaigning to support victims of spiking. I thank her for meeting me before the recess, but unfortunately the correspondence from her office subsequent to that meeting seems to entirely miss the point and does not follow at all the conversation we had. Given that it quotes h…”

“My hon. Friend referred to the Minister’s representations to the Chancellor, but I think the Minister said he was not going to make any representations to the Chancellor.”

“How does my right hon. Friend think my constituents on the Isle of Wight feel about being fused under a combined mayoral authority with Hampshire without having a single say?”

“As I am sure all Members in this place do, I support the principle of devolution and empowerment—two of the words on the face of the Bill—but this Bill is about centralisation and disempowerment. For the Isle of Wight, it is about fusing our island with Hampshire under a combined mayoral authority, where 93% of the pop…”

“May I invite the Minister to congratulate Isle of Wight band Wet Leg on reaching the top of the albums chart, a particular achievement given that it has beaten Oasis, which I know has personally disappointed my hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr French)?”

“The Minister talks about her 10-year health plan, with “Fit for the Future” splashed across the front cover, but really, it is a plan from “Back to the Future”, with no new ideas that have not been discussed since Alan Milburn tried to do this in the year 2000. It will only be successful if the Government deliver, but …”

“Q By the look of it, you have had an easier life than I have had. I have a fairly brief question. This morning, we heard representations that the SAF mandate is enough in that it creates the demand and requirements that the market will adjust to and fulfil, and that the Bill is therefore not needed. I invite your thoug…”

“I have realised that Professor Maslin was an undergraduate tutor of mine quite a few years ago. Professor Maslin: Oh, this is becoming a real embarrassment; it just makes me feel really old. But it is great to see you in a position of power.”

“Good afternoon, Secretary of State. I am going to stick with some of the bigger themes that we dealt with at the beginning—in fact, you have already touched on some of them. I quote: “investment has to be accompanied by reform. The NHS has to be redesigned around the needs of the patient. Local hospitals cannot be run …”

“Can I try another one, which I hope you will agree is on a theme—a different one, but nevertheless still a theme? To quote: “The NHS has been too slow to change its ways of working to meet modern patient expectations for fast, convenient, 24 hour, personalised care” and, “Changes in primary care will help ease the pres…”

“So my concern is that absolutely none of this is new—well-meaning, well intentioned, but not new—because the two quotes I have just given you are lifted directly from Alan Milburn’s NHS plan in the year 2000.”

“Is this a “Back to the Future”? Are you Doc Brown taking us back to the year 2000 to sort out the NHS all over again?”

“Perhaps you can help. What is the difference between community diagnostic centres, multidisciplinary GP surgeries and Darzi centres—and now your word for it, neighbourhood hubs? These things have run since the year 2000, then 2008, 2012, and now your plan. They sound like the same thing, just with different names—your …”