Speeches by Robertson.

“When will ICBs see what they need to see in order to decide how to save money?”

“Will NHS England powers be coming down to ICBs, or is it all about powers going up to the Department?”

“If powers are coming down to ICBs, how are ICBs expected to deliver that with half the amount of money, and some of them with even less than half, given that you are prepared to have variation?”

“One of the criticisms of ICBs, broadly, is about the lack of representation or lack of strength of representation for primary care, community care and the interests of social care. Will you bring about any reforms to strengthen that representation on ICBs?”

“It might help your shift from acute to community if ICBs had better expertise and representation of what good community and GP primary care looked like.”

“I will turn to dementia. Dementia was taken out of NHS England’s planning guidance at the beginning of this year, so it is not mentioned at all. Will you put it back in the planning guidance for NHS England, Department of Health and Social Care or whichever organisation produces that planning guidance for next year?”

“So, NHS England is disappearing. ICBs are definitely staying?”

“Dementia is the biggest cause of death in the UK.”

“Does the hon. Gentleman really believe that the inquiries and reports on this issue to date have gone far enough into looking at the allegations of walls of silence within the authorities—councils, the police and so on? Is there not a role for a further inquiry that deals particularly, but not only, with that issue?”

“It is a pleasure to serve on this Committee with you in the Chair, Ms Lewell, and I agree with many of the comments made so far this morning. Cuckooing, as we have heard, is a practice typically linked to the grim reality of county lines drug supply, where illegal drugs are trafficked from one area to another, often by…”

“I thank the Minister for that clear explanation in response to both my queries. I say again that it would be usual in drafting to say, “include, but are not limited to”, just to make it absolutely clear to legal practitioners that it is not an exhaustive list, so I put that on the record again. I am sure the Minister’s…”

“I also rise to support the clauses. As we have heard, artificial intelligence poses one of the biggest threats to online child safety in a generation. It is too easy for criminals to use AI to generate and distribute sexually explicit content of children. As the UK’s frontline against child sexual abuse imagery, the IW…”

“My hon. Friend has articulated this well. Is it not the point that people in positions of power and authority are doing nothing? That is one of the huge controversies around this that needs to be tackled, and I welcome the Bill’s attempt to do so.”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that the mandatory requirement to deport foreign nationals would need to be implemented in a proper and sensitive way? Criminals leaving the country should be handed over to law enforcement in the country they go to, if appropriate, rather than just released into the world.”

“I want to understand the logic of what the Minister is saying. She seems to be saying that the change to allow cases to be heard in the Crown court will be a deterrent, but she does not envisage an increase in cases being heard in the Crown court. Is she aware—I am sure she is—that it is up to the defendant to elect wh…”

“The Minister will know the springboard that hosting international events is for the economy, grassroots participation and sporting facilities in the UK. Under the last Government, we secured and hosted a number of major events, with a pipeline of events. What steps are this Government taking to ensure we have that pipe…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her quick canter through the clauses, particularly the provisions on interim orders and without-notice orders. I worry that once someone has an interim order, given some of the court backlogs, it may take some time for them to come back to the court for a full order. Does she share that conce…”

“I, too, support clause 17, which will create an offence of child criminal exploitation. Under this provision, any adult over the age of 18 would commit an offence should they do anything to a child with the intention to cause the child to engage in criminal activity. An offence will be committed where the adult reasona…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. Speaking to the last clause we debated, the Under-Secretary of State for Justice talked about the deterrent value of making the offence triable either way. A significant part of the amendment is about the deterrent value of the length of prison sentence avai…”

“Will the Minister give way?”