Speeches by Turmaine.

“That is great, thank you. Paragraph 2.4 on page 26 references that the 2010 to 2015 Government did achieve driving down regulatory costs by £10 billion. It also identifies that 90% of that was down to 10 changes. Are there replicable lessons from that? Are you already looking at those 10 areas and what their impact mig…”

“Paragraph 1.14 on page 16 of the Report says that the plans are currently “off track”. Are you confident you are going to make up the progress that you need to make in the time available?”

“Jim, I would like to address this question to you. Can you tell us a bit about the progress that you have made so far in delivering the action plan?”

“Q14. Last week, in my constituency of Watford, several amazing charities held their annual sleep-out to raise awareness of homelessness. People sign up to sleep outside at Watford football ground. More than 120 people raised over £15,000 of vital funding and more than 200 attended including the volunteers. Watford FC C…”

“It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Preston (Sir Mark Hendrick) for securing this important debate. I want to make a few comments about the relationship between Watford and Mainz, Germany. There was a twinning relationship between our town and Mainz for man…”

“That is great. Will that still be the case once the surge staff are removed and you are sort of business as usual?”

“I have a couple of hopefully relatively quick questions. You have spoken a lot about the staff that you have got in and the modelling that you are doing of anticipated workloads and so on. Do you feel at the moment that you have the right resources that you need, both in terms of quantity and quality, to be able to tac…”

“I accept that there is clearly commercially confidential information. You are operating in a commercial sector. It is a competitive environment. The very fact that you are tendering for somebody else’s business reveals that, but this is not an uncommon problem, it seems. In 2014 and 2015, the transition had gone the ot…”

“The NAO Report says that there are a relatively small number of companies operating in this sector. Clearly, it is not uncommon for pension schemes to transfer from one to another. While I take on board what you are saying, it still seems to me that two years is quite a long period to anticipate any challenges and diff…”

“Thank you for coming to speak to us. I want to talk more about the preparatory period and the state of readiness when you got to the go-live. There was a two-year transition period. How come you were not ready for it, given that you were speaking to MyCSP and the Cabinet Office at the same time?”

“But with the current backlog you would not expect to hit the March 2026 target?”

“One final point, Chair—they do say the sound of silence is golden, so apologies for shattering that—in terms of dates and the productivity and the tech that we were talking about, do you still expect to have delivered the promised levels of automation and AI by March 2026? Presumably that is not a confirmed date now.”

“That leads me nicely to paragraph 2.2, which states: “Hospital schemes take years to develop.” Figure 5 gives a really good and helpful indication of the breakdown of that timing. It says schemes require an average of eight years, with a range of six years to 10 years. Could you elaborate a little on what might cause a…”

“Great. Paragraph 2.9 of the Report states: “Some of the RAAC hospitals appear to be facing timetable pressures”. Is there anything that you want to touch on in that regard?”

“The new hospital design, which some of the wave 1 hospitals are going to be built to, has a re-estimated completion date of spring 2026. Are you happy and confident with that timing?”

“I should declare that one of the hospitals in the programme is in my constituency. Paul and Charlotte, what are the key challenges that you face in delivering wave 1 of the scheme to time and budget?”

“T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

“This Labour Government are making great strides in deploying digital technologies to provide access to public services and bring them bang up to date. Will my right hon. Friend please outline how this will benefit the residents of my constituency of Watford, while also offering some reassurance to those who are not dig…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I will speak briefly on clause 32, as a member of the all-party parliamentary group for video games and esports, to say to the Minister that I welcome the closing of this loophole. Does she agree that the change will support the British video games industry,…”

“There always are—thank you. Finally, why do you think that the sharing of data with local authorities has historically been so inaccurate or unsuccessful?”