Speeches by Collinge.

“The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The deregistering of international organisations is abhorrent. They are absolutely vital to this response, and I will touch on that point later. Despite these unsurmountable barriers, healthcare workers have absolutely persevered. They have rebuilt health centres. Open-heart surg…”

“9. What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to NHS dental services in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency.”

“One of my constituents contacted me because their spouse is bedbound and cannot get dental care at home, so he gets no routine care. He recently waited three months for an emergency extraction—something he could have had on the same day if he was not disabled. What work is going on to help my constituents access the ca…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Alec. I thank the hon. Member for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) for his excellent introduction. I came here today because I want to listen to the arguments and help inform my thinking about gun licensing. This debate is about one very narrow aspect of shotgun licen…”

“The hon. Gentleman makes a very interesting point. We already have backlogs for firearms licensing. Some people rely on firearms for their living. If there are changes to the licensing laws, those need to come with proper resourcing to make sure that they are actually enforceable. As we have heard in this debate, it do…”

“I appreciate the point that the hon. Gentleman is making, but does he accept that there have been instances where firearms have been lawfully obtained by people without a previous criminal record who have nevertheless used them to commit harm, particularly to themselves or someone very close to them?”

“Finally, I want to put special attention on solutions needed in rural areas. In rural areas there are a lot more detached buildings that are usually older and often not in a great state in terms of fabric. They are often reliant on oil—there is no mains gas in a lot of areas. What thought has the Department given to ho…”

“It may have been part of the point, Secretary of State, that I want to emphasise the importance of dealing with that very detailed but very important point because of the impact on those alternative routes to market and that private investment in nuclear. I will move on to the warm homes plan and retrofit. Some analysi…”

“Do you find that the homes that have oil-powered heating are ready for heat pumps, in terms of insulation, size of piping, radiators and stuff like that?”

“I want to fit in nuclear and the warm homes plan and ECO, so I will try to be quick. On nuclear, I want to talk about the semi-urban population density criterion, which says where you can site nuclear power. The Fingleton review recommended that this criterion be changed because it was based on out-of-date assumptions …”

“It is a pleasure to serve here today under your chairship, Ms Allin-Khan. I thank the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Sarah Green) for securing this important debate. I am going to focus on sodium valproate, which was prescribed for decades without proper warnings about the effect on unborn children. As a result,…”

“My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This scandal follows a pattern that we have seen far too many times before: early warnings ignored, information withheld or downplayed, measures to protect people not effectively enacted, and public bodies closing ranks rather than being open and honest when things go wrong. I have d…”

“Sorry, what I was trying to get at was that in communities that have not had energy before, we see support for the clean energy transition dropping when it looks as if stuff is going to be built there. Yet we have communities who already have a lot of infrastructure who do not care and are very happy with it. How do we…”

“Perhaps I could have a conversation with you later about the semi-urban population density criteria, because that is a barrier, but that is possibly not for today.”

“I am interested in existing energy communities and how we use them to support the transition. We know the new energy system will have to be more distributed and go to sites where there has not been energy before. I live within a mile of a small wind farm, a huge substation and two nuclear power stations. How do we use …”

“Where do you think it fits?”

“On anaerobic digesters, do the same barriers that you talked about apply when they are for generating electricity on site? Those are the ones that I have looked at most, and the idea was supposed to be that they used waste from that farm or a few farms locally and generated electricity. In response to a written questio…”

“It’s not quite as simple as that.”

“Some of the research we saw talked about IT failures and the ability of systems to cope.”

“The witness covered the impact on not just people but the systems of the NHS in earlier answers. To be clear, we talked about ward closures and so on, and the impact of increased demand; would any other system impacts of climate change on the NHS, whether in respect of infrastructure or otherwise, impact its ability to…”