it right. One Nation Solutions So, we need to change the status of mental health in our National Health Service and in our wider society. I don't come today with all the solutions but a clear direction of travel. The last Labour government began to transform mental health provision in our country. It made well-respected, evidence-based therapies available to more people than ever before. Taking mental health treatment into communities that had never received them. We need to do all we can now to protect those programmes. But even the last Labour government did not do enough to acknowledge the scale of the challenge. Too often governments have been stuck in a mindset that thought that physical health should always take priority. That waiting lists for cancer or heart surgery were always going to be more important than those for mental health. I am proud that Labour peers won the fight to go further than we had in government and ensure that the Health and Social Care Act contained a commitment to "parity of esteem" between mental and physical health. This was accepted by the Government. But here is the problem. Governments are in the habit in this country of passing laws and then forgetting about them. Think how radical a commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health really is. Waiting times. Access to treatment. Professional knowledge. Patient experience. Making "parity of esteem" real is a monumental and generational task. Here's where we should start. We should