Speeches by Duffield.

“I recently hosted a constituency SEND roundtable with education leaders and officials from the Department, where teachers stressed yet again that years of underfunding and diminished support services had left schools on their knees, often unable to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children. Unfortunately, the Gove…”

“Yes, I know that one. Thank you very much. That is really interesting. Tara, how would you specifically like more invested in those underrepresented regions? I know that is your area.”

“We covered a little about interventions in Christine’s last question, and Debbie was saying she does not necessarily think there are any. Tara and Jenny, do you think there should be interventions to accelerate growth in the number of female angel investors? What would that look like? How would it help reach the 30% ta…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Desmond. I thank the hon. Member for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry (Stephen Gethins) for securing this debate. Almost a decade since we held that fateful referendum, let us look back and count the many and varied so-called “Brexit benefits” that some promised us. As we …”

“That is another thing we need to strengthen. You would be astonished: I have done a lot of work on women’s health, and no area of women’s health—birth trauma included—has aftercare or follow-ups. I have done this for nine years, and it is a recurring theme. Do we know enough about the experiences of women who go on to …”

“We have obviously touched on this in terms of advertising and things and I know we are short of time, but is there enough informed consent about things like ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome? Could you both briefly say how many women you think are at risk of that? How high is that in people who donate?”

“Do you both agree that the process of informed consent needs to be strengthened, and that goes back to data?”

“Thank you; that is really interesting. Helen, do you want to come in on that one?”

“12. What recent progress she has made on publishing guidance for gender-questioning children in schools.”

“The Secretary of State told the House that the guidance for schools would be published by the end of 2025, yet here we still are without the guidance anywhere to be seen. There is immense pressure on schools, colleges, children’s homes and other settings to socially transition children, often irrespective of parents’ w…”

“3. What discussions he has had with King’s College London on the compliance of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial with the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004.”

“The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ peer-reviewed report found that harms from paediatric medical transition are significant, long term and too often ignored and inadequately tracked, as testified by Keira Bell, who is here in Parliament today. What is the Government’s rationale behind medicalisi…”

“8. What steps his Department is taking to help prevent job seekers and welfare claimants being subject to commercial sexual exploitation.”

“Commercial sexual exploitation is the exchange of money, goods or services in return for sex acts. It is a form of violence against women. Inquiries by the all-party parliamentary group on commercial sexual exploitation have revealed that it is now taking place on an industrial scale. With the growth and mainstreaming …”

“Will the hon. Lady make it clear again for anyone watching this debate that what she is saying is that those biological males—fully intact biological males—housed on the women’s estate are overwhelmingly convicted of violent sexual offences?”

“Katharine, you were nodding in agreement. Do you want to come in?”

“It sounds like women are at the bottom of the list.”

“Emma, you were telling us earlier about your ideas of fertility. We found that women’s reproductive health was too often seen primarily through the prism of fertility, even when women had decided they did not want to have children. Are you aware of any recent progress towards more inclusive co-decisions about treatment…”

“You mentioned moving away from the use of the term “reproductive health” to describe all gynae and menstrual issues. What term do you think we should be using, or have you not got to that stage yet?”

“Yesterday, I was at a birth trauma conference, and it was all the same excuses about why we cannot have these things done. To what extent do you think that women’s fertility is sufficiently safeguarded? For example, should egg freezing be available on the NHS for people with certain conditions?”