Speeches by Glover.

“1. What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the ministerial code.”

“I understand that, but of course, in terms of further progress, you are very much reliant on wider government and industry policies succeeding, which is uncertain. Is that right?”

“Let us chat Lower Thames Crossing. How is the design and planning going?”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and pay tribute to his constituent and their family. I am going to be talking quite a lot about what we can do to prevent such occurrences in the future.”

“I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Hazel Grove (Lisa Smart) for her passionate, articulate exposition of the great work that mountain rescue does in her constituency. We also heard the passion for mountain rescue and the great outdoors from the hon. Members for Bolton West (Phil Brickell), for Strangford (Jim Shan…”

“Please feel free.”

“Some of the ORR’s comments are pretty damning. It has said that the ranges you have proposed are largely arbitrary. That is very strong language for the ORR, would you not say? Or are you saying that you have now reached a position of harmony and consensus with the ORR on this?”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and he is absolutely right to raise prison as another setting where people are often vulnerable and where more needs to be done in relation to SUDEP. Sepsis, which has a similar history of systemic failure, will shortly benefit from a modern service framework co-produced…”

“In the United Kingdom, more than 600,000 people—one in a 100—live with epilepsy and every day around 80 people are diagnosed. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, abbreviated as SUDEP, is the term used when a person with epilepsy dies suddenly and unexpectedly. At least 21 people die every week in the UK from SUDEP, an…”

“You have covered water runoff. What about air quality? How do you prioritise interventions across your network where air quality is poorest? There can be some very challenging locations for that where you have very busy roads running very close to houses. For example I know that Botley and North Hinksey in Oxfordshire …”

“I am just going to push you a bit further on the whole cycle crossing thing. People are fed up with me wanging on about the Netherlands and these things, but it built a motorway effectively connecting one part of the country to another—an above sea one as part of land reclamation—that has a cycle path that goes all the…”

“One of the things the ORR was critical of in its efficiency review was the change that you have made from measuring performance against fixed targets to adopting target ranges. How do you respond to that criticism and what is the rationale for the change?”

“The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct to say that awareness raising and increasing understanding are key priorities in dealing with SUDEP and epilepsy in general. Patients with epilepsy carry a risk of premature death that is, on average, two to three times higher than in the general population, as has been outlined…”

“When you received the RIS3 funding settlement, was there anything that caused you to have to defer planned works or scale back some of the ambition? If that was something that you had to do, where has that had the greatest impact?”

“It is probably because we are a country that hates cycling but I am sure you will not put that in your letter. I have one last question on this section and then one about Lower Thames Crossing. You have mentioned that it is one of the biggest civil engineering projects in the country. How are you going to make sure thi…”

“Yes, and planning, though you have partly covered that with DCO and all that joy.”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and his tribute to his constituent, and I look forward to working with him and others on this issue. The checklist, commissioned by NHS Midlands and developed by SUDEP Action, is designed for commissioners and providers of care. There is hope that it will be red-flagged i…”

“May your optimism be justified. We took some evidence earlier this year and the back end of last year about HGV driver facilities. A concern that we have had is that HGV driver facilities and parking were not included in the Lower Thames Crossing application following consultation. Would you agree with that and if so w…”

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“Let us talk about funding then, because the Government have made it pretty clear that they will be looking to private sector funding for a lot of this, and yet they have committed £1.6 billion of public funding up front, before the full business case has been approved and ahead of the planned transfer to the private se…”