Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“I am going to carry on with this theme. We regularly have the Secretary of State here. He loves the phrase, “In the NHS, we learn from the best and roll it out to the rest,” because he likes a rhyming couplet. I am not sure that it is true, though. Do we get the right balance between funding pilots and funding adoption…”

“So you think implementation is part of a pilot. A pilot scheme has an implementation plan attached. I mean broader roll-out.”

“Consistently wrong.”

“One of the most distressing things that I discovered when I was working at Church Action on Poverty and talking to parents of children in poverty was how often mothers went without food. My hon. Friend has talked about families struggling so that their children did not find out. Does she agree that that is what we are …”

“You’re in trouble now, Madam Deputy Speaker! The Bill will be remembered as one of the proudest moments of this Government’s first term. Before entering this place, I worked on policy around poverty, and it is something that motivates me every day. A constant theme that I have found, when looking at the evidence, is th…”

“The Reform policy really is quite something, as I am sure my hon. Friend would agree. In fact, if someone lost their child benefit because of the Reform policy, it would take 345 pints a week to make a saving. So it does not really help anyone, but it does hurt those in the most poverty. Will my hon. Friend recommend t…”

“Almost one in three pubs in this country is a tied pub. In Calder Valley, one such pub saw its payments to Stonegate jump from £800 to £1,700 a week, just days after the six-month probationary period ended. I welcome the Government’s support for pubs, but that pub will still be paying 17 times more to Stonegate each ye…”

“Nilani, all these conversations are about people’s income but also the profitability question. Sainsbury’s has quite a lot of Local stores. Research by Which? recently found that cheaper staples like pasta, vegetables and tinned tomatoes were 87% less likely to be in the Local stores. Why is that?”

“You say that convenience stores are in poorer and better-off areas.”

“Oonagh set me up perfectly for my questions, which are on the price differences between healthy foods and non-healthy foods. Beth, can you explain the differences in profitability between high fat, sugar and salt foods and foods such as fruit and vegetables? What are the drivers of those differences?”

“That is interesting to me, because the assumption is that the processed foods are perhaps a little more profitable, and that is the basis of the price, because there is a price differential and a difference in the price per calorie. Liz, what is driving the price-per-calorie difference between healthy choices and non-h…”

“That is true, but the availability of transport is not equal; that is the problem. That is why two-thirds of people on lower incomes are likely to use convenience stores once a week. There is a problem with what is available in those stores. You are telling me that you have more than, perhaps, Which? has found. Is that…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on running. It is a pleasure to speak in the debate, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Lowestoft (Jess Asato) for securing it and …”

“A recent proposal, now dropped, for a merger between two multi-academy trusts in my constituency, the Pennine Alliance Learning Trust and the Trinity MAC, led to me getting over 100 letters, and over 2,000 people signing a petition in just a week. What can we do to ensure that parents’ voices are at the centre of such …”

“In terms of the high level of numbers that I was able to get after asking FOIs, there is nothing in there that could not have been in the public domain.”

“Charlie, you said that you take sexual harassment and misconduct incredibly seriously—you said that it was unacceptable. From my FOI, we know that between January 2018 and August 2025, 997 complaints linked to sexual assault were logged, but only 53 resulted in suspension or erasure. Is that good enough?”

“To stick to that theme, from my FOI requests we found that 90% of complaints concluded with no formal sanction, but two thirds of those that you prosecuted ended up with a serious sanction. Does that suggest that you could perhaps prosecute more and you should think about a lower threshold for how many you prosecute?”

“Are you doing anything to check that you are not filtering out too many cases too early?”

“You would expect claims in GMC tribunals to be upheld at a much higher rate than sexual assault claims in the ordinary courts, in terms of how many cases you take.”

“Going back to Alex’s points about interim orders, I will bring up a case of a doctor who has now been erased. Dr Emmanuel Hakem was a gynaecologist who practised with a chaperone for a year after being arrested for a sexual offence. Does that seem like an appropriate interim measure?”