Speeches by George.

“What budget would they need?”

“Say you were targeting—to pluck a figure—10,000?”

“It is quite critical, if we are saying, “This is how we need to go,” for us also to understand what the budgetary considerations are.”

“Are there any lessons that you have learned from your experience in both London and Manchester that indicate you would do things differently, having learned what works and what does not?”

“Presumably, you have no difficulty with the independent retailers that you are co-operating with the system. Do you ever have any difficulty with them? For example, complaints about recovering the value of the vouchers or anything of that nature?”

“First, my apologies for missing the opening of this session because of commitments elsewhere. I want to ask you about the prescription and voucher scheme, Corin. The figurework in your evaluation certainly suggests that it has been very successful. Could you perhaps say a little bit more about that? The figurework sugg…”

“So you are also looking at the out-turns in healthier lives, as well as healthy living.”

“Is eligibility clearcut? Presumably, you are able to data share with other Government agencies to identify those who are eligible for the scheme. Is that right?”

“Those points are all very welcome. Does my hon. Friend accept that global food systems already produce more than enough food to feed the world, but the problem is distribution and fair trade? As my hon. Friend the Member for Glastonbury and Somerton (Sarah Dyke) said earlier, the Groceries Code Adjudicator needs to be …”

“I am repeating myself, but the hon. Gentleman must understand that those research papers were questioned heavily as, during the period over which the statistics were gathered, they were not based on the same baseline nor on the same system as cattle testing at that time. Therefore, they did not compare like with like. …”

“On the effectiveness of culling, the scientific papers often refer to the figure of 56%, but when we dig down into the detail it becomes less clear. There was variation in the testing regimes during the period when the apparent reduction was detected, so it was not clear at all. There is certainly a lot of science out …”

“Meur ras—pur dha—to my constituency neighbour the hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth (Perran Moon). If we are being boastful about the number of people who are supporting the petition, the St Ives constituency, I should say that which includes west Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, came first with 470 signatures. It …”

“I welcome the Secretary of State to his position and declare an interest as a volunteer member of the Cornwall Community Land Trust. The Secretary of State will be well aware that a perfect storm has hit the construction industry as far as the delivery of social housing is concerned: tender forecasts are not encouragin…”

“3. What progress he has made on meeting social housing targets.”

“I am grateful for the Minister’s helpful remarks. She says that the DIVA test is currently being tested, which is wonderful, but does she accept that, given it was possible to produce a vaccine within a relatively short time in the pandemic—I appreciate that civil servants seem to have a rather stretchy temporal langua…”

“Is that licence in a low-risk area?”

“My hon. Friend is of course correct. The testing regime has been hotly debated—indeed, not just debated; successive Government Ministers and scientists have promised progress on the testing regime for many years. In 1997, the agriculture Select Committee looked at this issue and the benefits of shifting from the tuberc…”

“To a certain extent, we are going over the same theme time and again. My question really is for Zubir. You have arrived shortly after the car crash that was the VPAG negotiations. What we hear from the industry is that the UK is full of potential—the words that it uses are talent and fertile ground—but we are losing ma…”

“So no, you are not having a conversation. We have Ministers before us shortly, in 10 minutes’ time. What should we be pressing them to do?”

“The conversations are going on at the moment? Or are you not talking?”