Speeches by Green.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I must say how good it is to stand up in Westminster Hall to speak enthusiastically about an initiative like this one. I thank the hon. Member for Halesowen (Alex Ballinger) for securing today’s debate, because investment is often focused on cities and larger …”

“3. What steps he is taking to reform the family court.”

“The Minister clearly knows that the backlog in the family court is causing real distress. I have one family who have waited over a year for a court hearing. A year is a long time for a child, and we know that others are waiting even longer. Will the Minister share what specific measures she is taking to ensure that cas…”

“Who leads on those initiatives that you were just talking about? Is it DfE, DfT or somebody else? Does it depend?”

“I am keen to understand how the Department for Education is working with the Department for Transport—especially given the Bus Services Act—and other bodies so that those local transport initiatives that are being explored reduce reliance on home to school transport. There is an example from my own area in Buckinghamsh…”

“Mr Heslop, I just wanted to follow up on what is happening to SEND funding once the statutory override ends. More specifically, deficits have been accrued by local authorities. What is happening to the debt that they have accrued?”

“My original question was about buses, and I am conscious that we have strayed into routes being made available where you would not need a bus. There are parts of the country where walking simply is not the option. I am not sure I am clear on how you are working with partners, using the new Bus Services Act that is comi…”

“Point 24 of Russia’s peace plan proposes to establish a humanitarian committee to resolve outstanding issues, such as prisoner exchanges on an “all for all” basis and the return of civilian detainees and hostages, including children. That approach conflates prisoners of war with stolen children, who are afforded specia…”

“7. What diplomatic steps her Department is taking to support Ukraine.”

“I recognise what my hon. Friend is describing. Last week, I received an email from a constituent who travelled 200 miles from Amersham to Rochdale for the same reason. She felt she had been “penalised for following the rules” because she was forced to go down that route. Does my hon. Friend agree with her?”

“What about other Government Departments? The area that immediately comes to mind is the amount of time that police officers spend with individuals in mental health crisis. That is not a Ministry of Justice issue. That is a health issue. Do you have visibility of how that is affecting our forces, how that filters its wa…”

“Is that data publicly available?”

“Is there a plan in place to try to do precisely that? I accept that the dashboards will help with the Ministry of Justice, but there will be other Departments that will make a policy decision that has a knock-on effect on our forces. That is a great example of where a change has had an effect, but that is one example.”

“Do you have a way of tracking that and having visibility of how one change elsewhere in the system impacts on police forces?”

“Dame Antonia, can I ask you what work you are doing with other Government Departments to better understand and prepare for changes that may be happening elsewhere and that will have an impact on our forces? For example—and this is just one example—it is expected that probation will scale back the supervision that it do…”

“My question is on the area where the legal costs of clinical negligence cases appear disproportionate, especially when it comes to claimant legal costs. This is more of a follow-up question to Ms Jones around what the Department is doing to address the increasing amount of NHS funds being paid to clinical negligence la…”

“Is there anything you can do in your organisation to improve the transparency around the additional legal fees that claimants pay out of their compensation? There is no clear figure attached to that, but is there anything you can do to increase transparency on that?”

“You may feel that you cannot answer this, so it might be a cheeky question, but to follow up on that, is your sense that there is quite a defensive culture within the NHS—that they automatically go into defence mode when any questions are asked? I apologise if that is a question you do not feel you can answer.”

“This is a brief one to follow up on the initial response to harm. Helen, this is a question for you, because NHS Resolution has done some research into this. I am keen to understand from your perspective how the NHS is responding to that research. It is not just about individuals looking for answers or reassurance endi…”

“Could you write to the Committee and give us a bit more detail on that? We would be interested in learning more about that.”