Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“Will the shadow Chancellor give way?”

“T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

“Professor Orton, on the frailty scale and identifying frailty, we have received evidence that the current tools and incentives are not good at picking up older people at risk of frailty or who have pre-frailty. Do you think we should be more focused on identifying these groups?”

“Picking up on a couple of things you said there about the different services and conversations being available, the CQC does an annual State of Care report, which came out a couple of weeks ago. You can be forgiven for not having read that, but it specifically said that there is regional variation in outcomes around fr…”

“Just to clarify, France has a specific tax on the advertising of unhealthy products.”

“Okay. Since October 2022, there have been restrictions placed on foods at checkouts and aisles and entrances. The analysis shows that that has already reduced sales. Given that evidence, is there more that we can be asking supermarkets to do?”

“Can I quickly challenge you on that a little? What I do not want to see is this becoming another thing to make parents, particularly mothers, feel guilty about the choices they make when they are trying to feed a child in the first 1,000 days. I am looking more at what we can do from a policy perspective.”

“Michael Baber, what specific actions can the Government take to increase the consumption of healthy food, as opposed to actions that just decrease the consumption of unhealthy food?”

“I want to get on to my next question, although I admire the number of props you have brought.”

“A lot of that nudge theory stuff comes in there. Professor van Tulleken, the new guidance on placing products and so forth came in on 1 October. Do you think we are likely to see any measurable public health outcomes as a result?”

“I am thinking about the drivers of purchasing habits, particularly of unhealthy snacks. Professor Vogel made an interesting point that the price per calorie of fruit and vegetables is double that for unhealthy snacks. Is it price and affordability, or are there other ways to nudge people—to use a mid-2000s phrase—into …”

“I think this question is more for Lauren. In terms of your research, where do you think the balance in policymaking should lie between reducing unhealthy food and increasing healthy food consumption?”

“I do not want to talk about how much of the tower of shame over there ends up on my kids’ plates.”

“I welcome the hon. Member’s new interest in adult social care. The Dilnot report was delivered in 2011. What were the Conservatives doing for the subsequent 13 years while they were in government and not delivering meaningful change to social care?”

“Calder Valley is a string of communities. From Brighouse to Elland and from Hebden Bridge to Todmorden, each town has its own character and pride, shaped by its high street. But after 14 years of Conservative government, too many of our local high streets were left in decline. In Calderdale, we lost nearly a quarter of…”

“Conservative Members talking about what they would do in government is like me talking about having the ability to take a penalty in a world cup final. The Conservatives left us with 1.4 million PIP claimants for mental health reasons and 1.2 million on mental health waiting lists—that is 217,000 people in the midlands…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that Conservative Members could learn from that not-very-famous left winger, Henry Ford, who put up his workers’ wages so that they could afford to buy his cars?”

“Absolutely. There is a complete lack of contrition about the Conservative legacy of neglect. The Tories let our valued pubs and shops close. I once explained to an American friend—they have a different culture—the difference between pubs and bars: a bar is just somewhere you go to drink, but a pub is your community liv…”

“Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?”

“What kind of exercise would you recommend?”