Speeches by Prinsley.

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“Let me describe the situation in the hospitals. We have about 9,000 graduates of the UK medical schools, and about 9,000 higher professional training slots for people who wish to be surgeons, physicians, general practitioners or whatever. But we recruit about 13,000 to 14,000 international medical graduates into the se…”

“I think that is exactly what is happening at Hinkley Point, and it is coming now at Sizewell in Suffolk, where we will do exactly that.”

“I want to ask a bit about the story of the welders. You said that a welder earns £70,000 a year and a teacher of a welder earns £30,000 a year, so there is no way that we could teach people to be welders in further education colleges. What we need, surely, is a proper apprenticeship system in the welding businesses to …”

“I am Peter Prinsley, the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. I am also a surgeon from Norfolk, and I am very interested in aspects of migration as it affects the health service, particularly medical training. Perhaps we can come on to that, but first I have a question about the relationship between a skills policy a…”

“There is a sort of political mood that immigration is terrible and something must be done to reduce it. I do not think that we are sufficiently clear with the public about the trade-offs. A trade-off that occurs to me is that your elderly relatives might have nobody to look after them. I think that is a story that we o…”

“Moving on to the situation with care workers, I am hearing that, because of the fall in the number of care workers coming in from other countries, the care homes are struggling to continue their activities. What is your view on that? Was the instruction to forbid the recruitment of overseas care workers the wrong thing…”

“We have all witnessed the devastating effect of mass drone attacks, and MPs could see for themselves the sinister looking Iranian Russian drone that was here in Parliament only last week. What measures is the Ministry taking to develop a strategy in this country to defend ourselves from such a mass drone attack?”

“Going back to what I was talking about in the last question, could you envisage curriculum content in schools that could be presented to help?”

“I will ask about research, but somebody said that we are looking for needles in the haystack. I think that we have to keep looking at the haystack. It is a haystack. Are there are ways of scrutinising what individuals are seeing? At the end of the day, this is individuals looking at screens in bedrooms. I simply do not…”

“I am sitting here thinking about “1984” and George Orwell and his thought police. It is lovely to see some actual police here, but the problem is that there is a lot of bad thinking going on, isn’t there? There are young people who are effectively having malevolent thoughts put into their heads and we are not able to s…”

“I agree.”

“First of all, could you explain what is meant by a youth diversion order and how they are implemented?”

“No—it is just another tool, isn’t it?”

“I am interested in how you take one of these 14 to 17-year-olds and you put them down a different track. We understood from the previous witnesses that these are incredibly impressionable young people and some of them just go the wrong way.”

“I go into schools and talk to young people about where they get their information from—I am usually talking about politics. They do not read newspapers or listen to the radio, but they all look at TikTok. If you ask them what they look at on TikTok, it is very short attention span things, often from people who have pol…”

“I am listening carefully to what the Minister is saying, but can we be informed how MPs today are to be further protected from foreign intelligence services?”

“Mr Yaxley-Lennon, aka T. Robinson, has been fêted in Israel at the invitation of a Government Minister, while the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, aka Dr Peter Prinsley—a British Jew, a member of the Board of Deputies and a vocal supporter of the Israeli people in Parliament—has been banned. What does th…”

“Sadly, my experience as a consultant in a rural part of England is that, shockingly, some patients are still reluctant to see black doctors and nurses. Although my hon. Friend is talking about the experience of patients, I think we also must consider the attitudes of patients towards our staff and the way in which staf…”

“This week, it was reported that the hon. Member for Weald of Kent (Katie Lam), who is herself a descendant of Dutch Jews, and whose family lost members during the Holocaust, spoke about the desirability of creating a “culturally coherent” society, and her plan to return many UK residents to their “home”. Such rhetoric …”