Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“I hope we can all agree that the young people involved should not be used by anyone as a political football. Can my right hon. Friend please assure me that the process and trial will be clinically led, not defined by rhetoric—in this place or anywhere else?”

“Can I just pause you there? Your line there was that the public need to do more to support palliative care. That does not feel like a sustainable model for the funding of palliative care.”

“I declare my interest as an officer of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities team, and as a recovering local government alumnus. We inherited a system in which 40% of local authorities were at risk of going bust and issuing section 114 notices by March 2026, driven by a rising demand for adult and childre…”

“I am going to move to a different area; I am sure you will be pleased not to talk about industrial action for a bit. I am going to talk about palliative care. You will be aware that this Committee commissioned an independent expert panel to look into palliative care, and the report wasn’t good news. The panel found tha…”

“Do you think that auto-commencement puts that at risk?”

“As Health Secretary, do you think it is safe?”

“I appreciate that the Government is neutral. I am not asking you what you think we should do. Do you have safety concerns?”

“T6. With some victims of sexual assault being told that their trials might not be heard until 2029, what can we do to reduce delays and tackle the backlogs so that victims can be confident that they will get justice and will not have to face the trauma associated with these delays?”

“I commend my hon. Friend for her ongoing work on this issue. I was proud to work with her closely on ending the presumption of involvement for abusers in the family courts. As a long-term supporter of the White Ribbon campaign, which has the slogan “It starts with men”, can I ask my hon. Friend to confirm that we will …”

“It is no mean feat to get the biggest employer in the country to have more activity among their staff, so that is something that seems obvious.”

“So your message to Wes Streeting is that this needs to be embedded in all our GPs if we are going to have a proper shift to prevention.”

“In your honest opinion, given your conversations with Government so far, how committed are they to the future of that sort of central support for social prescribers and social prescribing link workers?”

“You said that the shift to preventing things is important. Are you confident that will have ongoing support from Government?”

“Does the upcoming workforce plan give the Government an opportunity to address the gaps in support for link workers?”

“Thank you. Graeme, in your written evidence, you said that the 400,000-strong physical activity workforce is being underused. How can we use them better?”

“There is embedding them and understanding the local voluntary sector, but we also have the healthcare professionals. What more can we do to build with healthcare professionals the knowledge and understanding of what your sector is delivering?”

“Yes. They are the seeds to help physical activity grow. Jeanette, Sport England said that health professionals need the “tools, time and confidence” to talk about movement with patients. What do the tools look like, and who should provide them?”

“Much like my hon. Friend’s constituency, mine relies on its manufacturing industry, and our apprenticeship guarantees and support will make a huge difference to people there. However, having listened to my hon. Friend’s history lesson, I am thinking back to the youth training scheme. I recently met someone who did a YT…”

“With a 28% pay rise and 4,000 extra specialty training places, it is starting to feel like the BMA resident doctors committee is deeply committed to not taking yes for an answer. It is not just about the services; it is about the parent who wants their kids to have their elective appointment before Christmas. It is rea…”

“Were I not sat in a different place, I would be feeling déjà vu, because this appears to be the same debate that we had on the Budget just a week or so ago when I pointed out to the right hon. Gentleman that the problem we have is that two thirds of children growing up in poverty have a parent in work, when it was a th…”