Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“Last week, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS foundation trust’s bed occupancy was at 99.6%. Some 20.1% of those beds, because of the failure of social healthcare and community care, were taken up by people who could be treated elsewhere. All I want for Christmas is a reassurance that, next Christmas and next winter, soci…”

“I welcome the money for homelessness in today’s statement. Evidence increasingly suggests that prevention works in homelessness. Calderdale is one of three local authorities working with Crisis to pilot a system of early prevention. In six months, that has already led to a 20% reduction in people using temporary accomm…”

“Thank you. I know time is short, so let’s move on to other people.”

“The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the problems in the social care market. However—this is a point I have made before—a lot of that is owing to the fact that nothing has been done since Andrew Dilnot’s report in 2011. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could point to where he has spoken out about that in the pas…”

“Will my hon. Friend tell me about her local aviary life?”

“I welcome this legislation and this debate. Nothing typifies this Government’s job of cleaning up the mess left after 14 years of the last lot than the need to clean sewage out of our rivers. The need in Yorkshire is greater than in many other places. Yorkshire Water holds one of the worst records for sewage discharges…”

“I am pleased to hear the right hon. Lady championing her party’s record on the environment. Her colleagues are somewhat less confident, given that only 12.5% of the parliamentary Conservative party have bothered to show up to the debate. Is that because they are ashamed or because they do not have the same confidence a…”

“The shadow Minister talks about talking to schools. I have spoken to schools in my constituency for many years, and I am sure he has spoken to the schools in his. The “School Cuts” website tells us that North West Norfolk has seen a £2.2 million cut in its state schools since 2010. Perhaps he could point to the record …”

“Will the shadow Minister give way?”

“rose—”

“Norfolk county council, which covers the area that the shadow Minister represents, has a housing waiting list of 1,341 homes sought. That is up 400 since he was elected in 2019. If the new clauses are about reviewing the impact of actions, perhaps he could take a moment to review the impact of the last Government’s act…”

“The numbers are from the House of Commons Library.”

“Yes. I was thinking of reports. You have hinted at a lot of these things to make GP services better, but more generally, what would be the top three things we could do to improve the satisfaction that GPs feel?”

“Absolutely not. The other thing that came out of the report was the huge levels of dissatisfaction among GPs. I think it said that 53% of GPs were dissatisfied with their work. Obviously, that is not sustainable. I think when we had Andrew Dilnot here a couple of weeks ago, he said we have to train two GPs to get one p…”

“Can I just interrupt? Does that mean that they that cannot get on to the training scheme in the area they want to or for the specialty that they want to?”

“To follow up on that, the state of medical education and practice report that the GMC does every year came out at the end of last month. One of the most alarming things in it is the rise in the number of doctors who are ending up in SAS and LE roles, which are primarily hospital roles. I think that has gone up from 23%…”

“Professor Hawthorne, what support do GPs need to do more work in the community?”

“My constituents would be surprised that there is no tax exemption on tampons, which are used by close to 50% of society, yet there is a tax exemption for VAT on private schools, which are used by less than 5% of the country. Does my hon. Friend not agree that it is a mark of the priorities of Conservative Members that …”

“I completely understand that we are asking people to consider something that they have never experienced or had to consider, but is that not what we do with fire regulations?”

“Listening to Conservative Members, one would think we were left a golden legacy. Despite that halcyon legacy, it is no wonder the Conservatives were resoundingly beaten in the last election—my constituents want an NHS that can be relied on, yet Lord Darzi’s report was clear that we have not sorted out the health servic…”