Speeches by Moran.

“Will my hon. Friend join me in commending the Bikeability Trust? In Oxford West and Abingdon, 61% of year 6 students take level 2 training, but 76% is considered an achievable target for 2025-26. Does he agree that without the Bikeability Trust, none of that would be possible?”

“I thank you for chairing the debate, Mrs Hobhouse, and congratulate my constituency neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Didcot and Wantage (Olly Glover), on securing it. I am the MP for the dreaming spires. If we think Oxford, we think Headington stone and copper roofs and bicycles everywhere; indeed, 20% of peopl…”

“Including in all the areas that I have just mentioned?”

“Indeed. You see, the issue here is that we are trying to shift a dial. The money that you are talking about is always welcome, but it is barely shifting that dial. Do you recognise that there is a cost to not reforming the system as well—both a human cost, and a cost to getting people in work and keeping them in work?”

“We are currently looking at this on the Health and Social Care Committee and have been surprised to find that the Government have barely looked at it through that lens. Perhaps an undertaking from you to look at it through that lens would help the Treasury to see what you and I clearly both see, which is that social ca…”

“Which isn’t actually going to deliver anything new. It is just going to pay you.”

“Following on from the question of Ms Owen and in particular thinking about those with disabilities, we had a roundtable of the Health and Social Care Committee in this very room and, almost where I am sat, was a woman who described her experience of NHS and care. To paraphrase her, she said, “The NHS keeps me alive, bu…”

“Very true. Do you see social care as mainly a drain on the Treasury or as an enabler to the economy?”

“I am pleased to hear you say that, but do you share my frustration—which much of the sector feels as well—about three years? That then butts up any decision close to an election, and when social care reforms have been kiboshed in the past, it has been during election campaigns. Surely the way to solve this would be to …”

“Do you accept that much of that money, in fact, has not been able to get to the frontline because of the NICs increases? Social care sits outside so, while local authorities have had some money flow down to them, it barely covers the NICs increases for the social care providers.”

“But the amount that is going to independent social care providers is about £800 million to local authorities.”

“Indeed, which is about the bill for the NICs increase.”

“One final slight about-turn: we heard a lot of the conversation about tariffs. You will know about President Trump’s approach to our NHS in the past when it came to UK-US trade negotiations; he had his eye firmly on parts of the NHS. You have said publicly that nothing is off the table. Does that include everything to …”

“We need a ceasefire now—again—because the situation on the ground is as bad as it has ever been, if not worse. I spoke to my friend whose family are in Gaza and he told me that last week their home was bombed multiple times while they were sheltering in the basement with no food or water. They are now barely surviving,…”

“I have to say that I am none the wiser about what exactly has happened. If we are to ensure that this will not happen again—that these deadlines will be met—we need to know how we got into this position. It may well be the fault of the previous Government. Will this Government commit to a full review of exactly how we …”

“Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you for having me. To follow up on that point, Julian Kelly, if I may, is the 50% cut for each ICB? Are they being asked to each find 50%? My concern is that there are some ICBs that are delivering services pretty efficiently. Partly how they are doing that is, for example, having …”

“This is a bold change indeed. The job of my Committee is to help the Secretary of State to do it, so let me start by asking him to come in front of the Committee as quickly as possible—certainly before Easter—because there is a lot of detail that we need to drill down into. On a more substantive point, the right hon. M…”

“Were you asked to leave by Sir James Mackey?”

“Is their last day also 31 March?”

““Hyperdynamic” is one word for it. I have one more question. Julian Kelly, it has been reported that you were going to stand down anyway but you have expedited it following the announcement from Amanda Pritchard. It is worth saying, Chair, that we have Sir Stephen Powis, who served for seven years as national medical d…”