Speeches by Savage.

“I will make this my last question, Chair. The former chair of the OEP noted its propensity to “lift every stone and follow every avenue and then write extensively”. It is not entirely clear from here whether she saw that as a good thing or a bad thing, but what are your reflections on that?”

“I would certainly welcome that. Thank you very much.”

“Indeed. As you have been at the head of quite a number of organisations, have you observed or had feedback about what people take away from the way that you are in that role?”

“And more infographics.”

“Thank you, Dame Helen, for being here. Clearly, the head of an organisation has a really important role to play in setting the cultural tone of that organisation. What thoughts have you had about the culture at the OEP and what sort of culture you would like to build there?”

“Just to press a bit further on that, as a leader often it is leading by example. It is the way that you are in the organisation that really establishes—”

“T7. We have already heard about the NEET crisis; nearly 1 million young people are being denied the opportunity to develop their potential through education, employment or training. The problem is even more acute in rural areas like the South Cotswolds, where we have the additional challenges of poor public transport, …”

“That is very interesting, thank you.”

“Thank you very much. I have a connected question to follow up on that. So far in the UK we have tended to look at one pollutant at a time and of course the real world does not work like that. There is a cumulative and possibly a compounding effect of multiple pollutants. Do you think it is time that the UK moved toward…”

“That is very helpful, thank you. Would either of the other panellists like to come in on that question?”

“I am curious. Could you briefly give an example of how the net zero policies could lead to unintended consequences on air pollution?”

“Thank you very much to our panel for coming in today. This is a question to Professor Hansell first. The good news is that it looks like air pollution levels have been declining over the last eight-plus years. Based on that, would you expect to see a gradual decline in respiratory illnesses and hospital admissions in p…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his very insightful intervention. In the doughnut economics model, we are in many ways in “overshoot”, while the basic needs of many in our society are not even being met. That is one of the major failings of GDP: it does not show how the benefits of growth and the wealth of the country are …”

“I completely agree with my hon. Friend’s perspective that, in rural areas in particular, the aspects of our quality of life that are not measured in financial terms are very much overlooked by GDP. He makes an excellent point that, in fact, using GDP as the pre-eminent metric disproportionately impacts on rural ways of…”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I absolutely agree with, and will elaborate on, his points about what GDP fails to measure and how it must be complemented by other metrics. So the crucial question is: if those five things are indeed what Governments are for, how well—or not—does GDP measure whether Gov…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the potential merits of use of alternative measures to GDP within Government. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Alec, and an honour to introduce this debate on what I believe is a very important subject: alternative measures to GDP. Gross domestic product …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Allin-Khan. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Norfolk (Steff Aquarone) for initiating this very important debate. South Cotswolds is one of the most rural, off-grid constituencies in England. About 20% of households rely on heating oil; that is about four tim…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Stringer. I thank the hon. and gallant Member for Spelthorne (Lincoln Jopp) for securing this important debate. I have heard the statistic that for all the land allocations that have been set aside for housing, for growing food and for renewable energy projects, and fo…”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing forward this important debate and for his very moving speech. I recently had the honour of meeting Eleanor Wroath, who is here in the Gallery today with her son Sam. Eleanor lost her daughter Miranda, aged 18 months, in 2008. Since then, she has been a tireless campaigner for rai…”

“To go back to heating oil, 20% of households in my South Cotswolds constituency rely on heating oil—that figure is four times the national average—and many of them face high up-front costs. Will the Secretary of State consider supporting more flexible payment or credit schemes, and pooled purchasing models, which would…”