Speeches by Hack.

“Has it been more successful than expected?”

“This is almost about that peak and flow and how you could manage that in a different way. Do volumes work over a 12-month period or are you simply running out as we get to the end?”

“That is useful, thank you. To both of you, if you could make one improvement to the effectiveness of these programmes what would it be? David, do you want to start?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Jeremy, and I thank the hon. Member for West Dorset (Edward Morello) for giving us this opportunity to speak about water today. My constituents have written to me pretty consistently since I came to this place about the water industry with concerns about sewage discha…”

“Our green space is vital, not just for our environment and mental health but for the economic benefits that it brings to our communities. Having rail access to our communities is very important. My constituency of North West Leicestershire is not far away from Sherwood Forest. It is home to the national forest. It is e…”

“My constituents in North West Leicestershire will soon benefit from an average £150 cut per household to energy bills, and a number will be able to access energy efficiency schemes. Can the Secretary of State outline in more detail the expected changes to the fixed elements of our bills, such as the standing charges, w…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Patrick Hurley) for giving us the opportunity to speak in this debate. In my career before being elected, I was involved in a number of successful place-based employment schemes, including having direct resp…”

“I have been working closely with driving instructors who provide tuition to learner drivers in North West Leicestershire. One of them reached out to me earlier this week to share that they had got up at 5.45 am to book a test for a student in Loughborough, but no tests were available. What work is being done to increas…”

“I thank the Minister for her powerful statement. There are clearly differences in cancer treatment depending on where someone lives, whether a rural or coastal community. My semi-rural constituency sits on the edge of three hospital trusts, leading to difficulties such as those highlighted by a constituent who attended…”

“I can understand the sense of trying to keep those things very separate. However, in the landscape that more employers will recruit at the point at which somebody already has a disability, the sense of the Healthy Working Lifecycle is that you start healthy, whereas you can join at any point in that cycle. In terms of …”

“There are other standards. Disability Confident is just one of many. Should the Government be looking at alternatives? Others in the market do different things.”

“Thank you. That is useful.”

“Looking at those very small businesses, one of the things that is really interesting, having been around small businesses for a long time, is that they seek advice when they need it. They will not necessarily get Disability Confident accreditation, and then they might be faced with a key member of staff having a disabi…”

“Disability Confident has been mentioned. In a previous life, I have been through the form, so I do understand the process of Disability Confident and can reflect some of the conversations about it being a tick-box exercise and that it does not really push employers to do better. There have been some changes to Disabili…”

“Because we have started on Disability Confident, I will merge the two questions together. You have obviously reflected on Disability Confident and the fear that it is a tick box rather than really looking at how employers are employing more disabled people. When we look at the Healthy Working Lifecycle, a formal accred…”

“This issue is one of the things we have looked at in the Work and Pensions Committee, and the evidence is quite clear that we must remove the two-child benefit cap and enable long-term investment in our young people. Those young people in poverty suffer extraordinarily, and we need to give them better life chances.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I will come to freight in a little while; he has pre-empted my speech. The National Forest Company also shared that 99% of the over 200,000 annual visitors to Conkers, which is one of the key attractions in the national forest, travel by car. It feels counterproductive that…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I do not know a huge amount about his line, but that certainly seems to be good value for money, and it adds to the point about towns that need infrastructure. What does that infrastructure do? It gives those people opportunity. On that point, I ask the Minister what work ha…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and her support during the campaign. The main thing is that large towns need the infrastructure to match. There are certainly other examples of investments in railways to connect towns that are exceeding their passenger targets, such as the Northumberland line.”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered restoration of the Ivanhoe Line. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms McVey. I am pleased that colleagues have joined me for what I believe is the first ever debate solely about the Ivanhoe line—a train line that would reopen a direct passenger link between Le…”