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HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)It would be; thank you.27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you think we need another body to do the job of following up on PFDs specifically? Professor Fowler: No, I do not think we do.27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q I am the shadow Minister. It may well be that others asked for you to be here, but I asked in particular because the NHS already has experience with the legal duty of candour,…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Dr Chopra, there is a challenge in the medical world. For example, you might have a cohort of people who think they are discharging their duty of candour by reporting various…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q We heard in evidence this morning about a sense that prevention of future deaths reports are made but nothing is necessarily done to follow up on them. Dr Chopra, my…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Professor Fowler, does NHS England do anything to fulfil that function—look at all the reports in aggregate and summarise and share them? Professor Fowler: We certainly look at…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Hello, all. I am the shadow Justice Minister. Thank you for coming and giving evidence to us today. Mr Warmington, in your view, what material difference would have been made to…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Do we take it from that that you think most organisations do attempt to behave appropriately and admit it when they have done the wrong thing? Ron Warmington: I do not deal with…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you think that the fact that there will be criminal sanctions at the end of the process will be enough to put people off engaging in that sort of behaviour again in the…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Are those your key points? I have some further questions. Cindy Butts: They are my key points, but I think there is one more that I want to bring to your attention. As the Bill…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q I have questions for Ms Page from WhistleblowersUK. We have had a lot of discussion today about whistleblowers in relation to other incidents. What are your reflections on the…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q I hope we can have a sensible discussion about the fact that, while a lot of what we have heard has been about good faith whistleblowers, people raising legitimate concerns that…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q But do you accept that, if you do that, a whole series of people will say that WhistleblowersUK, or a whistleblowers office, was not listening to them, not sufficiently…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q I am the shadow Minister. Beginning with Mayor Burnham, what are the key differences between the Bill that you presented to Parliament and this Bill as currently drafted? Andy…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Would you say, therefore, that the amendments that they have put forward are the ones that you think are necessary for the Bill to reach what you have described as an 100%…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Mayor Burnham, what reason was given by the Government for not including, in the initial draft of the Bill, those provisions that the Hillsborough Law Now group and yourselves…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q You can give a very short answer to this question, Mayor Burnham. Given the experience that you had with your inquiries into grooming gangs, do you agree that the five local…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Sorry—the point was more that an individual officer might know about a certain set of circumstances, but they will not know all the circumstances, and they will have only a…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Hello. I am the shadow Minister. Thank you, Mr De Simone, for coming to speak to us. It is important for us to have a context and understanding of your views more generally on…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q You are obviously not here as a legal expert, and we would not hold you to that standard, but do you have some observations on how you think, from your own experience, the Bill…27 Nov 2025