Speeches by Robertson.

“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.”

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

“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…”

“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 …”

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

“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 …”

“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.”

“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 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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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?”

“I do agree. It looks like the Government do not understand that healthcare is delivered not only by the NHS, so when they chose to exempt the NHS from the damaging rises, they either did not understand or had disregard for all the other healthcare providers, without which the NHS could not function properly.”

“I will give some examples before I give way to my hon. Friend. The change will cost Marie Curie almost £3 million a year, and it says that without further support critical services for the terminally ill may be scaled back. Hospices throughout the country will pay between £30 million and £50 million a year. For the Mou…”

“I agree. Putting pressure on other health providers and social care providers inevitably leads to pressure on the NHS. My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head in her comments and I thank her for them. For Carers Trust the cost of this rise is £3 million—that is not its tax bill; that is just the bill from this rise in…”

“I agree, and would like to share the hon. Member’s optimism that the Government do intend to make improvements in this area. This debate is a second chance for them to go away, then come back and provide relief to all charities, but particularly those that are operating in what might be called emergency services, becau…”

“I agree, although I am perhaps a little more optimistic than the hon. Member. The Government might not make the promise today, but they have an opportunity to go away and provide financial relief to all charities, even if they might not want to admit that in black and white. I congratulate the hon. Member on her Bill. …”