Speeches by Thompson.

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“We have heard extensively about the importance of cross-party consensus, and I believe we have been having a fantastic discussion to that end. Does the hon. Member agree that in the name of cross-party consensus we should be working together and not just party political grandstanding in favour of the Green party?”

“This is a question to all three of you, but let’s be as brief as possible because of the time constraints. Specifically, were you satisfied with the Government’s response to social media around the unrest last summer?”

“Thank you all very much for your candour. Given Kelly’s point about how the Government do not have a huge amount of control over what the social media companies can do, although I completely accept the points you make, Zara and Ravishaan, about not being happy with the Government’s response, what would you have wanted …”

“Thank you, Chair. In the discussions we have been having, which have been very positive generally, we have talked lots about the Online Safety Act, but—for us to take away as legislators, picking out some of the holes that we may or may not have identified in the Online Safety Act—where do you see the future of legisla…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson) for introducing the Bill. I think it is laudable, and its heart is very much in the right place. We should think of the climate crisis in all matters of policy and in how we might contribute to the Government’s goal of making Britain a clean energy superpower. The …”

“I thank the hon. Member for her intervention, and I will cover some of those points shortly. I broadly agree with the sentiment of what she said. The Bill’s aims, in promoting the installation of solar panels on all new homes, feed into the Government’s overall intent, and I am pleased about that. I note, however, that…”

“I completely agree. It is not about one solution versus another, but a diverse, broad array of solutions, all feeding into a grand, greener future.”

“I must say that I declare my support for those projects wherever they come up. Indeed, I will touch on some of them in a moment. I was recently asked by the media whether I would be happy to have pylons outside my house, to which I responded with a photograph of a pylon taken from a window in my house. I have long felt…”

“Of course, I completely agree with everything my hon. Friend just said. I am sure that many Members—probably all right hon. and hon. Members—agree that the polling clerks and all the attendants on election day are a vital part of our democracy, and they have our thanks for their work, year in, year out, in all election…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh North and Leith (Tracy Gilbert) for bringing forward this wonderful Bill. It is important to say that this Bill is fundamentally about making it easier to vote in Scotland and Wales. It would improve the situation for residents in those areas by allowing them to vote by p…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and, of course, I completely agree with everything she says. I firmly believe that education, skills development and all the aspects we have just been discussing should be core to all of our policies. Indeed, my previous role prior to coming to this place was as an educator a…”

“I thank my neighbour and dear friend, my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Linsey Farnsworth). I certainly agree with her and commend the school in Langley Mill. I was her predecessor as the Labour candidate in Amber Valley in 2019, and I know the fantastic work the school is doing. I am a great proponent of vis…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, and I agree. It is important that when these difficult scenarios arise, we are able to account for them and have systems in place to deal with them. To conclude, we have had a really interesting discussion today. The points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh No…”

“I just want to advise the right hon. Member that several products of the type he is referencing are available on the market at the moment.”

“Will the hon. Member reflect on my comments a few moments ago about how the expert suggested that the Bill would have a marginal, negligible impact on the education sector?”

“I thank the Secretary of State for her statement and particularly in regard to the removal of the tort from the existing legislation. That will allow our universities to ensure that funds get spent on students and not on complex legal issues. As the Secretary of State has said repeatedly today, the Government take the …”

“If I am incorrect, I stand corrected. My understanding from speaking to the experts is that the proportion has remained broadly consistent, but my apologies if that is incorrect. I thank the right hon. Member for his intervention. The Committee stage reaffirmed what many of us on the Government Benches already knew, wh…”

“I refer to Hansard for the discussions we had in Committee, but that did not come through in the evidence we heard. However, I respect the fact that the hon. Member has made that point, and I thank her for doing so. As we heard from the hon. Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole (Vikki Slade), another sector to benefit…”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to speak again on this Bill, having been part of the scrutiny process in Committee. The Committee heard representations from a wide variety of experts in related fields, and I was heartened by the news that many experts felt that this Bill would have a positive impact on 98% of the ret…”