Speeches by Hall.

“Do you foresee any challenges with the changes?”

“It has to be found from somewhere, so that is going to have an impact on the resilience of public services at some point. The money has to be found from a pot somewhere.”

“I would like to turn to unplanned deficits and the impact that that is having on service users. Turning back to the NAO Report again, two examples are given. HM Passport Office is cited as not having fully recovered the cost of providing passports since 2017-18, despite this full cost recovery target. HM Treasury did n…”

“Where is “elsewhere”?”

“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.”

“We are not talking small figures here. The figure I just quoted was £223 million.”

“James, how will the Treasury help Government bodies manage the persistent deficits and surpluses more proactively in the future? You said you are aware of these things.”

“Tim and Farhad, how likely is it to affect you?”

“You are confident that that sharing will happen. I know that sometimes there are issues with sharing best practice.”

“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…”

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

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