Speeches by Hall.

“It would not go on in terms of fee increases. The service users who are paying and doing what they should be doing—rightly so—are not going to be seeing the fees that they are facing rising.”

“How often is that? Is that a year or two years in advance?”

“The good intentions are there and, if they are actively managed, that is fine, but good intentions can go awry, can they not? If things look like they are not going the way they should be and costs are not being recouped, for instance, is that where the active management comes in?”

“You are across the detail, I suppose.”

“It seems like common sense to me. I am not a financial expert. Why has this not happened before?”

“You are confident that examples like the one I have just given can be avoided in the future by taking this approach.”

“How do you make sure that future users are not unfairly affected when recovering deposits?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Josh Dean) for securing this crucial debate. Teachers and parents alike tell me the same thing: there is too much pressure and not enough time to focus on children as people. We all want an assessmen…”

“As someone who has ADHD, I know how much difference the right support makes. For me, this issue is simple. Support in education is not a favour—it is a legal right, yet too many families have to battle to get what the law already promises. That includes families like that of my constituent, Vicky James, who not only fi…”

“Matthew, what did DHSC do to improve NHS England’s management of the programme?”

“Sir Jim, we have touched upon this quite a few times. Given the recent industrial action, what can NHS England do to plan for or mitigate the impact of that action?”

“How did you change it? What was the change?”

“Between those two different sets of action, was there a reduction in the number of procedures that were cancelled, or did it maintain roughly the same?”

“Samantha, with this ongoing industrial action, do you think that the Government will be able to meet their 18-week waiting list target by 2029? Is that still realistic?”

“There is no change. What is the reason for that confidence?”

“Just going back to what was, and the lack of governance in at least two of the programmes, monitoring and accountability from your end must have been an issue at that time, which you can now hopefully rectify. You have clear goals, but they have to be monitored to see whether people are meeting them.”

“I would like to carry on with that theme and the tracking of spending on the transformation programmes. Sir Jim, why did the elective recovery board, which you chaired, not track spending on the transformation programmes, despite being responsible for oversight of the programmes?”

“The impact of having it done elsewhere must have been significant.”

“In terms of whether the programmes had capacity, or resource delivery, was there a delay in getting that information to you so that you could respond?”

“Having that fragmentation must have had an impact.”