Speeches by Hamilton.

“Moving you on quickly, how have you started to do that?”

“You said you are doing further inquiries into the cases you got on the families. Did I mishear?”

“It will complete this summer.”

“Can I stop you there? I get very frustrated, and I’ll tell you why. The Ockenden review might have been the second to last review, because we did one on the Health Select Committee, but there have been so many reviews over the years, and you tell me you’re doing yet another inquiry. Is there nothing that you have actua…”

“From what they told you they wanted to go forward with, what have you actually done?”

“You know why I am asking you that. You are starting to hit the point. It is because, to go back to what Alex and Josh were saying, you have doctors there whose practice is not the best it could be for whatever reason, and they have carried on practising not for weeks or months but for years after something has gone in …”

“My time is up. You have spoken to me for the last eight to ten minutes, and I have asked you about what you have done practically to ensure that, if doctors are not performing, we do not keep talking about it, but we do change the system or the structure—whatever you want to call it—to ensure that those doctors are not…”

“I am only going by your words. That is what I was told.”

“Has anything changed in your structure since last June? If it has happened before, can it not happen again?”

“So you have opened more inquiries.”

“You can’t change the structures in your organisation?”

“I am just asking.”

“Well, okay; I apologise. But the Minister is here today and he has given us the revised policy, with which I am delighted. I am so pleased that the Minister and the Government have decided not to make it a mandatory scheme. I have had an overwhelming number of complaints in my constituency. Going forward, areas like mi…”

“I thank the Minister for coming here today to talk to us about the revised policy.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Kevin McKenna) for securing this important debate. Gambling is increasingly accessible to children and young people, whether through online platforms, advertising or other media. There are seri…”

“I welcome this statement and this clarity. The findings are damning. I was born and bred in Birmingham and I am a local MP, and I know that in my community there is very little trust in the police. Does the Secretary of State agree that, in an increasingly political world, it is important that in future all chief const…”

“I have a final question for you, Duncan—you know I have to bring you in, because we are both nurses. I worked in hospice services as a district nurse, so I went in and out—you know the way that system used to work. How are you ensuring that we are not losing that high quality of profession as we are losing and cutting …”

“My next question is simply on that. Cutting services must be done in a professional way, and you have to think about the quality of services, not just the quantity. My last point is that people are talking about cuts in services. How is it being measured that people will still get a high-quality service, when we are se…”

“The Chair has more or less asked the question that I was going to ask. Let me start by saying that I absolutely appreciate that Government, through you, have tried to support hospices, especially over the past 18 months. About £125 million has been given in capital to hospices. I have taken on board what was said earli…”

“I will follow straight on from you, Sir Gregory. [Laughter.]”