Commons debate on the Thirlwall Inquiry's terms of reference — Government declines to widen them

In an adjournment debate in the House of Commons, Sir David Davis MP argues that the Thirlwall Inquiry is asking too narrow a set of questions, telling the House that the neonatal unit was operating '30% to 40% below the staffing levels recommended by the British Association of Perinatal Medicine' and that 'at least 14 babies either had an infection or were suspected to have an infection'. Aphra Brandreth MP also speaks. Replying for the Government, health minister Preet Kaur Gill declines to widen the terms of reference: 'the point of the inquiry is not to rehearse Lucy Letby's trial; it is to focus on how people within the trust responded.' She restates that it is not for the Government to comment on or intervene in individual CCRC applications.