Speeches by Mayer.

“To follow up on the regional point, do you envisage that GBR will have any formal regional structures?”

“I think everyone in this room agrees that walking and cycling are good; they are good for health, for the environment and for young people’s social skills. I also think they are a selling point for people trying to sell houses. In my constituency, there is a development called Bidwell West. For the last decade, there h…”

“With Easter approaching, thoughts often turn to eggs. My favourites are Cadbury Creme Eggs or possibly Smarties ones, but the eggs that I want to talk about this afternoon are those that chickens produce, and which are sold in our supermarkets. Although the majority of whole eggs sold in UK supermarkets are now from ca…”

“I thank the Minister for his positive engagement on this; I have discussed with him on a number of occasions the situation at Leighton Buzzard post office. Can he confirm that a Leighton Buzzard post office will remain in the high street area, and what can he tell residents about the opening hours that the branch will …”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. “It’s like driving over the surface of the moon,” is what Karen from Houghton Regis told me. Marion and Brian explained how they had had two tyres ruined, costing them over £200. A plumber from Dunstable sent me multiple photos of craters in his road. Councillor Matt Brennan showed me m…”

“It could be steps instead of bridges. Maybe you would move people around the airport, or in terms of Border Force, et cetera.”

“Just thinking about all the other forms of public transport that normally access the airport—trains, tube, buses and coaches—what were your conversations with them over the whole period?”

“Why did you make the decision at that stage to say it was all the way up until midnight?”

“Thomas Woldbye, do you think the decision to close until midnight was taken quickly and at an early stage?”

“To the extent that you know the answer to this one, when do you think that other airports became aware that flights would be heading in their direction?”

“How effectively did Heathrow work with other airports in the UK, continental Europe and the rest of the world during the incident to accommodate diverted flights and to reroute passengers?”

“Nigel seemed to suggest earlier that some of these things could have been done manually. Would you like to respond to that point?”

“So you have landed it. What is the safety problem in terms of getting the passengers off?”

“I want to go back to the fact that inbound flights were not being allowed to land. We are being told that the safety-critical systems worked. Can you just explain what the safety-critical systems are? You are also saying that it was not safe, in effect, to get passengers to come in, because it was not possible to proce…”

“Would the cost of full power resilience be worth it?”

“We now understand that the back-up generators were working as expected and that, by the morning, there was access to power. You keep telling us that it takes 10 hours to rewire everything. Does that 10-hour period sound resilient?”

“12. What steps he is taking to increase the understanding of and respect for the right to self-determination globally.”

“Some 700,000 people in Washington DC are currently disenfranchised because their representatives in the Senate and the House of Representatives do not have voting rights or full control of local government affairs. It is the equivalent of everyone in Bedfordshire voting for MPs who have no chance of going through the v…”

“Spring is in the air, and it is almost time for a familiar ritual. On Sunday, the clocks will go forward by an hour, and our evenings will become lighter overnight as British summer time begins. Frankly, each time the clocks go forward and back, it is a bit of a faff. I think we have all looked in confusion at the cloc…”

“Is the growth in passenger numbers made up of new people?”