Speeches by Bance.

“Since the election, we have seen a number of large companies in a variety of sectors get into trouble, whether it be Stellantis in Luton, the refinery at Grangemouth, or AstraZeneca and the failed investment there. What role will the industrial strategy council have in intervening where things are demonstrably going wr…”

“Grangemouth, for example, is an oil refinery, and one of the growth areas in the industrial strategy is clean energy. One would think there might be a possibility for the industrial strategy council to take a useful view on whether we might need oil refineries in the future, possibly even for sustainable aviation fuel.”

“Not in the remit. So you would not be taking a view on the public policy lessons from those?”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Andrew Pakes) for securing the debate. I am a proud manufacturing MP from the Black Country. I represent Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley, where manufacturing still makes up 25% of the jobs available, but we have two and a half times the national average of people with …”

“I want to understand the journey from the point at which tickets go on sale to the point at which you, hopefully, for these particular arena shows, achieve sell-out. Am I right in understanding—you will correct me if I am wrong—that there is a plan for the prices at which different tiers of tickets will be sold in the …”

“I am looking forward to the results of that report.”

“On the poverty premium, we all know that poorer households and areas face higher costs for purchasing the same goods and services, including paying higher prices for groceries when they need to purchase them at convenience stores rather than out-of-town supermarkets or larger supermarkets, due to their lack of mobility…”

“Should the business Department and the CMA not be intimately involved in that committee?”

“Minister, you will be aware that the Treasury has set up a new Financial Inclusion Committee. It is going to be looking at a variety of things, but one of them is buy now, pay later. How involved is the business Department in that conversation?”

“Do you think good practice can be drawn from what football does? Or are you worried about developments in this area?”

“Mr Greatrex, football is obviously a little different because of fans’ loyalty to their club and to their country. You have warned that FIFA may introduce dynamic pricing for next year’s World Cup. What do you think the impact of that would be on fans?”

“You will understand that we on the Committee have a number of testimonies from people who have attended or sought to buy tickets for various concerts and events where they feel they have evidence of prices changing during that purchase process. Are you are saying to us that that just does not happen?”

“You urge them and sometimes they ignore you, or you urge them and they do not do it?”

“You will understand that there are some raised eyebrows around the table. What you are saying to us is that there are a suite of advertised prices at a range of price points—maybe according to the extras that have been added on or the position in the auditorium; those types of factors—and those prices remain the same t…”

“I was disappointed to hear of plans to close the Old Chainyard pub in Coseley in my constituency to make way for yet another convenience store. Will the Leader of the House give her support to campaigners in Coseley fighting the closure of their local, and will the Government make time for a debate on the vital role of…”

“Does the Attorney General’s experience, having served both as a distinguished advocate and now as a Law Officer, not make him uniquely qualified to uphold the rule of law and advise the Government appropriately?”

“T3. The Government were elected on a promise to buy, make and sell more in Britain. What action is the Minister taking to prioritise UK manufacturing and UK-made steel in public procurement for energy and defence products on national security grounds, as is allowed by the World Trade Organisation?”

“I will not. Those are all reasonable questions, and this House deserves to have many more answers than it has so far been able to get. According to the Hansard Society, “To table a money motion, the Government must therefore assess how much money will be required and have some idea about where the funding will come fro…”

“No. How much will those facilities cost? There are even bigger questions, too. Will this be an NHS service, or will we be contracting private providers? If it is an NHS service, which of my constituents will have to wait longer for an operation or a GP appointment because this Parliament will today authorise massive, u…”

“No, I will not. In the case of this Bill, we not only do not know how much it will cost or how it will be paid for, but we do not even know what the money will be spent on. Let us think of the questions that we do not know the answers to. What will be the cost of NHS doctors attending the final appointment and waiting …”