Speeches by Robertson.

“Immediately before the Minister came to the House, we were debating environmental protections to secure our country and the future of our globe. In the spirit of unity, will the Minister agree that there is little point in talking about environmental protections and security without also securing our world through robu…”

“8. What steps he is taking to reduce the cost of ministerial travel.”

“Like the Solicitor General I also practise as a solicitor. She must know that the questions that are being put are not calling into question a barrister’s right to represent clients. This is about a barrister who is now the Attorney General. Does she accept that the Law Officers’ convention is being extended in the int…”

“The Minister refers to helicopter travel, and she has given her description of the previous Government. Does she not accept that the Government are using VIP helicopter travel, not through the Ministry of Defence budget but through the Cabinet Office budget? Does that not make this Government grossly hypocritical, and …”

“Are there any specific gaps in follow-up pathways that you think might hinder the prevention of CVD?”

“What was your experience in the provision of follow-up care for those who were identified as being high risk following a Health Check?”

“How do you see that national co-ordination being rolled out and embedded in practice? If it was easy, presumably it would just happen organically.”

“I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on introducing the Bill. He talks about the nuclear power that may not be needed if we have solar panels on houses. Does he have a view on how much pressure we could take off demand on green land for solar farms, because many people have concerns about that use of green land, if we had…”

“I congratulate the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) on securing this important debate. The hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth (Perran Moon) refers to rolling the technologies out at scale. The only eligible English project that has the marine lease, environmental licence and network connectio…”

“I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Residents of the Isle of Wight are expecting full elections this May. The no-overall-control unitary authority has asked the Government to be part of a priority devolution deal with Hampshire, but not local authority reorganisation, which is …”

“The reviews have found a fundamental problem with both CQC staff and service providers being able to understand what good care looks like. How do we deal with that? Do we have a problem? I suggest that this might exist in throughout the regulatory world in this country: “good” becomes a very technical thing, disconnect…”

“I would suggest that a well-intentioned measurement system assessment framework with scoring, no matter how well intentioned, runs the risk of becoming detached from what people think of and feel is good when they receive care. That is going to be a challenge.”

“On the problems with implementing new technology, at the beginning you made that assertion yourself, Ian Dilks, and acknowledged that there had been difficulties implementing new technology. I think you suggested later that you could give an example. I invite you to give an example of the difficulties faced and of the …”

“Sorry, but when you say stuck, do you mean the reports are somewhere in the system but people cannot find them?”

“Q11. My constituents on the Isle of Wight are entirely reliant on foreign-owned, debt-laden, unregulated ferry companies for essential travel, but public transport in the United Kingdom, such as buses trains and Scottish ferries, is regulated and subsidised. Does the Prime Minister agree that the Isle of Wight anomaly …”

“The Secretary of State referred to social care in his update on winter pressures, and he is of course right that social care has an important role to play in taking pressure off hospitals. However, surely he can understand the frustration that the sector and those in receipt of social care feel about his pushing the is…”

“Coming back to the idea that perhaps the public do not rank social care as being as important as other issues, might the problem be that they do not necessarily characterise their concerns as relating to social care? It is a label problem. They are worried about whether they will be able to pass on money to their child…”

“I was going to ask a question about how we evidence that spending money on social care leads to at least some savings in the NHS. But Sir Andrew, you made a comment earlier that perhaps runs against what I thought was a settled consensus here, so I might invite you to clarify this idea that more investment in social ca…”

“Isn’t the point that the maximum human life has not increased? People have always been able to live to 90 or 100; it is just that a few hundred years ago so few people did. Provided we can get people there healthy, or healthier, they tend to die quicker, which is obviously better than taking a long time to die when you…”

“Now looking beyond the funding issue, have you, Kathryn, or anyone else seen innovations in social care across the country that, if the funding was in place, would scale and roll out very well to a more systemwide approach across the whole of the country?”