Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

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

“I will move you away from geriatricians in north Wales, because I want to get to the broader point. We have a workforce crisis. We have experienced staff leaving. We have what looks to be a postcode lottery in provision. We also have the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill coming down the pipe, which has an auto-c…”

“Just to pick you up on that, the problem with the postcode lottery, particularly because there are no minimum service standards in ICBs, means that we might have to have some form of direction on this to make sure that we are fixing that problem.”

“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…”

“Okay. We will now move on to the workforce within that. There are currently 78 vacancies for palliative care consultants, or there were when the report was published, and that is on top of the 132 clinicians who are expected to leave the profession in the next five years. There have also been pretty bad training bottle…”

“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 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…”

“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?”

“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 …”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“You talked about NASP as a central group that is providing some support. What kind of support are they getting?”

“You said that NASP offers that central support.”

“There is no central provision of support or training?”

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

“I declare an interest as an officer of the all-party parliamentary group on running, the secretariat of which is supplied by England Athletics. It is a group for mediocre runners such as me to encourage more physical activity. Charlotte, you said that the national infrastructure to support social prescribing link worke…”

“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?”