Speeches by Hamilton.

“I have known you a while and I am going to beg to differ. What happens is you get the money, you go away to do that piece of work, hoping that it will be rolled out and, while you are doing that work, it is out of the spotlight, as happened in Birmingham, as you saw. Then things deteriorate and the money is removed. I …”

“You are clearly saying that you do not want ICBs taking over the funding.”

“Do you not think that the doing something about it was finding some money at the back of a drawer, shutting you up, putting you in a corner and then doing nothing with it?”

“My final point is that, if there was a way forward that you would like this Committee to recommend to the NHS to help scale up these pilots, what would that recommendation be? I am only looking for one recommendation, so I am going to be awkward.”

“Good morning. My next question is a really interesting one. How much influence do you think media attention in these areas and pressure on Ministers and MPs had on these projects being launched in the first place? Has it just been used as a sticking plaster?”

“Do you feel that these projects are ever going to be rolled out, Jennifer?”

“For it to be funded by the integrated care boards, what was the evaluation process like for them to say, “We are now going to take this on”?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) for securing this important debate. In my constituency, our local town centres are the beating heart of community life. Whether that is Erdington High Street, Slade Road, or Kingstanding shopping p…”

“My hon. Friend is passionate about the administration of vaccinations, and he has asked quite a lot of questions. I absolutely agree with them all, but I will focus on his questions relating to health visitors and to having more of a strategy on vaccinations. I hope that everybody present has read the report, which sta…”

“My hon. Friend raises a crucial point. These services are just not joined up. We have got young children who, from birth to two and a half years old, are not getting the health services they need. They then go into the education system and are falling behind. The strategy is just not appropriate, as has been highlighte…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for all the hard work she put into this report. It could not have been achieved without everybody on the team working so diligently. Family hubs are an incredibly valuable resource, and they deal with all the issues that she raises. The problem is that we just have not got enough of them. One per…”

“On behalf of the Health and Social Care Committee, it is a pleasure to present to the House our fifth report of this Parliament, which is on the subject of the first 1,000 days of life. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for allocating time for this statement. We chose this subject because this period of life is …”

“Liz? Please be succinct.”

“I need you get to the point, or we are going to run out of time.”

“You are just reading from a list. Just answer the question, please.”

“Brilliant. Over to you, Oonagh.”

“Right. My final question is: do you feel that the Government should concentrate more on mandatory reporting than it currently does, and where do you think that would place your organisations? I am going to start with you, Oonagh.”

“Good morning, all. Let me set the scene. Between 1993 and 2022, the proportion of adults living with obesity rose from 14.9% to 28.9%. The proportion who either were overweight or living with obesity rose from 52.9% to 63.9%. With that in mind, it has been suggested that voluntary initiatives have failed to reduce the …”

“So you do think we should move towards mandatory rather than voluntary?”

“Pragmatism, and what is the final point?”