Speeches by Olney.

“10. What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Building Safety Regulator.”

“The Minister’s sedentary intervention gives me a good opportunity to say that the hand knitting industry supports many jobs in many rural areas, right across the country, including Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. However, I have spoken to the people who own Knit With Me, the amazing knitting shop on Richmond Hill…”

“By the end of this Committee.”

“So when do you intend?”

“You are not expecting to be able to deliver the productivity gains you planned until after you work through the backlog. Is that what you are saying?”

“Are these additional features that they would not have had before you took the scheme over?”

“The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We need to take much firmer action to ensure that no products traded in the supply chain in this country—or, as he says, stocks listed on the stock market—are produced through any kind of forced labour. The use of forced labour is an affront to human rights; but also, and more pr…”

“I understand that, and that is why I am parking, if you like, the issues around the backlog, which have been fully explored and explained. Nevertheless, there is this point about productivity gains; I think you had already rolled back on what you were going to deliver.”

“It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Jardine—there is nobody better to chair a debate on fashion, if I may say so. I thank the hon. Member for Hornsey and Friern Barnet (Catherine West) for her excellent opening speech and all the wonderful points she made. I want to get slightly competitive for a moment: I adm…”

“Can I just ask you about that—once you had control of the operation? You were expecting to have control of the operation from day one, and therefore that is when it would have been delivered.”

“Does the Minister agree that effective regulation is not about putting burdens on business, but about ensuring a level playing field, so that ethical businesses and those that have committed to the welfare of their employees and to sourcing good quality materials have a level playing field to sell their products and ar…”

“Under the original agreement, Capita was going to have a lower headcount than MyCSP, because of the productivity gains that you expected to implement. Alongside this backlog, which, as we have just been hearing, you did not expect and is obviously causing you trouble to work through, you have also rode back on the IT s…”

“Last week the Government updated their carbon values to reflect their latest net zero emission target, but the UK emissions trading scheme does not take into account the updated figures. In 2021, it was predicted that carbon abatement for a third runway at Heathrow would cost £100 million, and costs will have only rise…”

“5. If he will update the UK emissions trading scheme to reflect the carbon abatement costs of major projects.”

“Coming back to the question of care homes, the Report tells us that the number of care home residents with a personalised care plan has fallen from 76% in 2022-23 to only 44%. The Report notes that the fall occurred when specific payments ceased for these activities, so it might be that they were recorded to get the pa…”

“I can understand how this approach will obviously reduce infections and hopefully reduce hospital stays. Will you have a mechanism in place to capture whether there are unexpected downsides to this approach, Sir Jim?”

“Sorry to interrupt you. The model is showing you that it is going to be more economically efficient, but once they are up and running, how will you measure that it is delivering economic efficiencies?”

“If, for whatever reason, the data is no longer showing that enough people have care plans, what assurance do you have that GPs are delivering that part of their contract and that care homes and their residents are getting the support they need?”

“What measures are you going to use to assess whether the Hospital 2.0 approach is delivering economic efficiencies for NHS trusts?”

“In Hospital 2.0 it is not so much that the single-patient room model is better for staff, but that elsewhere in Hospital 2.0 there are more spaces for staff and that will boost their wellbeing?”