Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“Do we need better flexible training as well? If you think about the point of life at which doctors are in specialty training, and given that the majority are women, does training need to be more flexible?”

“How are we going to make sure that we have people in the roles that we need for the future? Obviously, it is much easier to train a doctor into the specialties that we have at the moment and the specialties where we have more people. GP training is a particularly difficult area to train the right number in. How are we …”

“My final question is a bit left-field, but you said that community and neighbourhood health is where it’s at. Earlier, you said that social care will be the door out of the NHS. We have talked a bit about funding. This report is brilliant, but it is very light on social care, and it points just to the result of the upc…”

“We are now also seeing a massive increase in the number of doctors going on to SAS and LE contracts. Is the answer to that a more formal role for SAS and LE doctors, or is it to get training sorted and other routes on to the medical register?”

“I get that, but I am trying to work out what our doctor population looks like. We all know that resident doctors deliver most of the care, as do SAS and LE doctors, so what does it look like? Are we going to have a greater proportion of SAS and LE doctors, or are we going to get the SAS and LE doctors into formal progr…”

“There was a brief mention in the 10 year plan about simplifying routes for SAS and LE doctors on to the medical register. Last year, 276 doctors went through what used to be the CESR/CEGPR route. Is that the right kind of number, or do you think that we should make it easier for SAS doctors to become—?”

“The thing that I don’t really know about fair pay agreements—I am not sure whether this is—”

“I am going to ask about the career progression of doctors, and training routes. In 2012, 66% of doctors who completed foundation training—F2—would go straight on to a specialty training programme. That has shifted: now it is 22%. Obviously, that is a huge shift in the medical workforce, some of which is driven by the f…”

“This week, Yorkshire Water announced a hosepipe ban. This follows a 29% hike in bills and continued pollution of our rivers. Can my right hon. Friend tell me how I can use Parliament to hold this company to account on behalf of my constituents?”

“Obviously, my only fear is that the habit of the six-monthly check-up is quite useful to get into. I say that as someone who once went eight years without a check-up and would probably be a poster child for prevention, because my teeth aren’t great. Moving away from that revelation that I did not intend to make—”

“Thank you for coming today, Minister Kinnock. You said to my colleague Jen that we are on a burning platform. We have heard a lot about the problems involved. Do you think that the level of our solution meets the crisis that you outlined of being on a burning platform?”

“Just to paraphrase, I don’t feel like you are saying that we are treating this like a burning platform. You are saying, “We are treating this as a burning platform within the resources that we have, and we only have buckets and water.” I guess, to paraphrase what you are saying, we are going to scotch the urgent proble…”

“I feel like that goes back to the previous panellists who said that one of the issues we have is that people feel like dentistry should operate like their GP and they just do not feel it does, so we need to say what the relationship is with dentistry and NHS dentistry.”

“Sorry—I have gone way off my questions. I will go back to where I am supposed to go.”

“Something that I think is quite close to your heart is the Welsh Government. They have proposed a reform of the dental contract to move away from routine appointments, and the introduction of the central dental access portal. What do you think of that proposal?”

“On telly, and everything. The aim of the dental cost survey is to provide an accurate understanding of the costs and pressures facing the dental sector. Can you give us a bit of a timeline for when it will be published and how we will use the initial findings to inform contract reform?”

“Are we talking weeks or months?”

“The previous Government dodged vital infrastructure decisions for 14 years, so I am glad that this Government are stepping up with projects such as the east coast main line upgrade, which has been announced today, strengthening connections to Leeds and West Yorkshire. However, although connections to London are importa…”

“The Minister will be aware that the recent pathfinder family court pilots have been seen as largely successful. This is an opportunity to put children at the centre of these cases and to end the presumption of contact which puts partners and children of abusers at risk. Will she please advise me as to the next steps in…”

“The last Government’s decimation of Sure Start was nothing short of social vandalism; the paroxysms of outrage from the Conservative Benches felt like an arsonist complaining that the fire service had not put the fire out quickly enough. I welcome this policy because the family hubs will make a real difference. Can my …”