Speeches by Davies.

“Mr Brockington, do you have any plans to increase the amount of healthcare resource available to cope with the average age of your prisoners? Additionally to the rooms issue and the needs assessment that has happened, do you feel that there is something else that you can do?”

“Let me thank the emergency services, Carmarthenshire county council, which is the local authority, and National Grid engineers for working tirelessly to help residents who were without power in Caerfyrddin. I also want to give a shout out to the farmers who helped clear the roads with their chainsaws. Given that many a…”

“My question is about community benefit. I will ask Joe and Ben this, but any of you should feel free to come in. Let us be frank—the days of community benefit, with companies sponsoring rugby shirts, for example, as much as that is appreciated throughout Wales, are over. We need tangible benefit for people and for comm…”

“It is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I thank the hon. Member for Upper Bann (Carla Lockhart) for securing the debate. I declare an interest as a tenant farmer. Farmers in Wales feel threatened by the approach that this Government are taking to inheritance tax. It concerns me that that approach…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“I am co-chair of an anti-pylon group in Llanarthne, which is in Carmarthenshire.”

“I am going to briefly come back on that. If you are agriculturally minded at all, cable ploughing is very much like mole ploughing—a cut in the ground and the cables are in. A kilometre a day can be done with favourable conditions. It is nothing like the traditional open-cut method, which I fully agree would probably b…”

“I absolutely take that on board.”

“Picking up on what Ffion said, what we all need to remember is that, if we want a successful green energy project, be it a wind farm, a solar farm or a marine project, you have to bring the community with you. If everybody can crack that, most of the barriers fall away. Coming back to what you said, considering the ran…”

“I will just say that they cable plough in Denmark, where they have cable ploughed 400 kV, so it can be done.”

“You mentioned Denmark, which is really interesting to me, because Denmark undergrounds all of its cables—the 400 kV, the 275 kV and the 132 kV. The whole lot go underground. We are very aware at the moment that the Welsh Government, in fairness, have commissioned an independent advisory group, which is l…”

“Whoever fancies taking it—and everybody is quiet. It is a policy question. Mr Rossiter?”

“My question is to Guto. Guto, I have not seen you for years, so it is lovely to see you again. Employer national insurance is where I am coming from with this. We know that it will impact universities, which are already struggling. It will also impact charities like the National Botanic Garden of Wales, which I have on…”

“Before I ask my question, which follows up on what you have just said, personally I do not think that land values will go down because land is infinite. We do not create land, and although there may be a slight dip in the short term, I do not think that land prices will be affected by this tax change. Moving on from th…”

“I would like to declare that I farm in the Tywi valley with tenant farmers but we also own some land there as well. We also run a business that is affected by the Budget changes.”

“Gigabit availability in my constituency of Caerfyrddin in west Wales is just 42%. The Welsh average is 70% and the UK average is 79%; we are on 42%. The Public Accounts Committee has previously said that the 2030 target for full UK-wide gigabit coverage is not feasible, given the delays and the overreliance on commerci…”

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“The Workways team, which is run by Carmarthenshire county council in my constituency, does impressive work in facilitating access to critical skills and giving career opportunities to people who are out of work. It has received funding through the shared prosperity fund, but that is due to end. Can the Minister tell me…”

“3. What steps he is taking to improve food security.”

“Today, the Chancellor is hailing the benefits of free trade in a plea to Donald Trump. However, any future trade deal with the United States will enable cheap food, such as hormone-treated beef, to flood our markets, which would be devastating for farmers and food security. Will the Secretary of State take this opportu…”