Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“I am going to talk about the integration of mental health services, which is key to making this work. The LGA and ADASS submission says that “the Community Mental Health framework has identified what is needed—locally based, co-located services that are accessible to all at a point in their journey that is right for th…”

“We are aware that prevention is key to our future plans, and that is what we are looking for. We are aware that we must ensure that access to services, which is less likely for people with SMI, is supported. We also know that people with severe mental illness have five times higher rates of liver disease, 4.7 times hig…”

“In 2018, the Department for Health and Social Care said that two in three deaths of people with SMIs from physical illnesses could be prevented. Are we going to do an exercise to try and get that number again? That was 2018, the last period we have numbers for. At what point do you expect that number to reduce?”

“I take that on board. When I was in local government, we co-located some of our wound clinic work with our drug outreach, so a lot of these things make sense. I just worry that we seem to be saying that the last Government missed a lot of targets so, to solve that, we are not going to have them.”

“I get that, but I also think that we have targets to hold ourselves accountable. How will you hold yourself accountable to make sure we are picking up the other co-morbidities?”

“So why are we getting rid of them?”

“You have demonstrated the need. I am still not entirely sure what our mechanism will be for ensuring that the need is met, and how we will hold that service accountable to that.”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in support of the Bill and new clauses 46 and 66 tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard (Alex Mayer). The Bill represents a step towards giving communities greater control over their local transport networks. Colleagues across the House recognis…”

“We all want to see peace, the hostages returned and an end to the man-made famine in Gaza, but this attack on a sovereign nation so closely tied to the peace talks undermines all that. It is as awful as it is counterproductive, so what can we do to ensure that the pursuit of peace is more than just lip service for the …”

“What is morale like in HQ?”

“You found out within the week that it was being abolished and then it was announced.”

“Thank you for being with us. Sir Jim, when did the Secretary of State tell you about his decision to abolish NHS England?”

“Has it gone up or down?”

“One of my favourite documents about the health service was the Institute for Government’s 2012 report into the Lansley reforms. There is a key paragraph in it that I keep coming back to, which says that “the 30,000-plus managerial jobs to go will in theory produce savings that over a few years pay back the redundancy c…”

“The estimate was £500 million a year.”

“Is that coming out of the NHS budget or Treasury?”

“You talked about the issue earlier about the cost of redundancy. How much do we think that is at the moment?”

“Is it just a difficult couple of weeks? Does it have a longer tail than that?”

“Is there a bit of a risk of a brain drain, with some of the better staff going?”

“You talk about them being shocked and hurt. Did some of the bombastic language that was used, referring to people in NHS England as “blockers”, add to that hurt?”