Speeches by Midgley.

“Q I have two questions for the whole panel. To start with, thank you so much for everything that you have done. There is no doubt about it; we would not be here in this room today with the Bill where it is without your work. We heard in an earlier evidence session from Pete Weatherby KC, the director of Hillsborough La…”

“Q Thank you very much, Pete, for coming to give evidence. Going back to the stuff that has been raised about the intelligence services, will you state plainly whether you think clause 6 strikes the right balance between candour and national security, and what is the problem that the Hillsborough Law Now briefing raises…”

“Robbie Gibb—faithful or traitor?”

“Do you agree with the BBC when it asks for an uplift for “culturally relevant children’s content” that already qualifies for existing tax reliefs?”

“I understand that. How do we compare internationally, on that funding and on tax reliefs?”

“How do you do that? How do you get that fairness?”

“Greg, the Children’s Media Foundation said in its evidence said that there is support within the children’s media sector for tax credits. What is the CMF view on the current children’s and animation tax reliefs?”

“Thank you very much, Frank and Greg, for coming in and speaking to us today. What I am going to ask flows on from what you said, Greg, in answer to one of Rupa’s questions, but it is a question to both of you. The BBC remains the biggest commissioner of kids’ TV—the latest figures we have are 86% of output and 95% of s…”

“I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests regarding my membership of and financial support from the trade union movement. I stand here as a proud trade unionist, with a couple of decades of work behind me standing up for the working class. I pay the truest of tributes to my right hon.…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and I absolutely agree with him about the work that my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East has done on this for over a decade. This Bill brings changes that tip the scale in favour of working people and, taken together with the rest of the new deal for …”

“Thanks very much for coming in and giving evidence to us. You have talked a bit about how your organisations are adapting to the grant making strategies and the challenges. What do you think the answer is? What changes do you think could make funding schemes more accessible, particularly for the smaller and volunteer-l…”

“Thanks very much for coming in and giving evidence to us. You have talked a bit about how your organisations are adapting to the grant making strategies and the challenges. What do you think the answer is? What changes do you think could make funding schemes more accessible, particularly for the smaller and volunteer-l…”

“That day in April 1989 will never leave us. Fans went to the match and never came home. They were not lost; they were unlawfully killed. Authorities protecting themselves; decades of denial, distortion, and lies; a press slandering the dead and the grieving; a cover-up and systematic failure of the state that cut deepe…”

“Charlotte Hennessy, whose father Jimmy Hennessy was unlawfully killed at Hillsborough, has had conversations with the Prime Minister in which he has assured her that the law does not need to be watered down and will be delivered in its entirety. She is in the Chamber today. Will he make that promise in this House today…”

“Q7. Reform says that it stands up for the working class, but the truth is that it never has—its Members voted to block the Employment Rights Bill again and again. Does the Prime Minister agree that only this Government are on the side of working people? It is Labour that is creating tens of thousands of jobs, like in o…”

“Before I begin, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Natalie Fleet) for her bravery and for the remarkable work she has done in her short time in this place, including on this Bill with new clause 14. I am so proud to be on these Benches with her. I am going to speak to a measure at the heart of the…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this really important debate; I refer Members to my entry in the register of interests. Does he agree that trade union access will increase collective bargaining, which drives up pay and conditions for our constituents?”

“6. What steps her Department is taking to ensure that it meets its target of two thirds of young people participating in higher-level learning.”

“Nearly 6% of Knowsley’s 16 to 17-year-olds are not in employment, education or training—one of the highest rates in the country—so I very much welcome today’s statement. By the way, A-levels left not just my constituency but the whole borough of Knowsley under the last Tory Government, so we will take no lessons in asp…”

“I thank the Secretary of State for her response. In Knowsley, while we are making progress with work from the council and organisations such as the Brilliant Club, we still fall below average for young people going into higher learning. Barriers remain to continuing education, and to developing skills for good jobs and…”