Speeches by Munt.

“You said you have reports of deaths up to two weeks after somebody has left. Is two weeks the right threshold?”

“The Criminal Justice Alliance told us: “It is demoralising to see the churn of prison officers who end up in the job without a clue as to the demands and pressures of working in a jail.” What do you all make of that statement?”

“It sounds as though you have done some work on this. Do we have that?”

“When you have done some more thinking and some writing, it would be lovely if we could see that.”

“Thank you.”

“Today is World ME Day, and I hope that the Secretary of State and her Ministers will recognise the up to 1.3 million people who live with ME and ME-like symptoms, and some of those with long covid. All they want is to have a normal life. I recognise what she has said about making PIP work for fluctuating conditions. Ca…”

“In response to all the letters and emails from my constituents, I will focus on PIP and the effect that the changes will have on the 1.3 million people who are suffering from ME and long covid. I am particularly concerned that the additional criterion for a PIP award of needing four points in one descriptor disproporti…”

“Q2. Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VE Day, may I thank the Prime Minister for his Government’s recognition of the highly dangerous and clandestine work of the 1,746 pilots and navigators who formed the RAF’s photographic reconnaissance squadrons, and the 635 Buckinghamshire-based photographic interpreters—often forgo…”

“T8. I have a constituent who has broken and rotting teeth. His GP referred him to the local dental hospital, but he has been refused treatment because the hospital said that the surgeon would take a referral only from a dentist, which my constituent and many others in Somerset just do not have. What does the Minister s…”

“But every case is a person.”

“You did not try. It is an intellectual argument at this point because you have chosen not to do it, but my suggestion would be that it might have been an exercise that you would have considered among all those risk things that you face on a daily basis.”

“Can you say that again? I could not hear it.”

“Thank you.”

“Yes, I just want to pick up on what you said. I will invite you to write to the Chair. I would be quite interested in knowing how many of the cases that you have referred are matters of process as opposed to matters of fact and evidence. For example, I am aware of what I know are a historic couple of cases—McDaid and, …”

“Thank you.”

“Eight hundred and seventy three referrals to the Court of Appeal since exactly when?”

“You are saying that there have been eight hundred and—”

“Tessa Munt. Everything is on the register, but I draw your attention to the fact that I am a director of WhistleblowersUK, which is a non-profit-making organisation.”

“Since when?”

“From what to what? Forgive me—”