Speeches by Bance.

“Building on that, what action do you want to see? Should we be massively expanding the domestic demand for UK-produced steel? Should we take action on our own tariffs, on the barriers we may put up to trade with the rest of the world? What would Tata like to see?”

“Building on that, a feature of recent negotiations around technology with the US has been the concern, if not always the actuality, that other US digital priorities such as seeking changes to the digital services tax or the Online Safety Act, may come into the conversation with regard to the United Kingdom. Would you s…”

“Yet the US Administration often seem to consider sovereign regulation by countries such as the UK, which has a different conception of how online services should be regulated and the priorities around safety and freedom of speech, to be anti-competitive or in some ways an attack on US digital exporters. Is that the pos…”

“It does not sound very quick.”

“Coming back to Mr Jones, I wondered if you could tell us a little more about the value of the nuclear commitments within the technology prosperity deal and what they will mean for UK plc.”

“I stand here as a proud representative of the Black Country and the trade union movement. Black Country people work hard. We are proud and we are resilient, but 50 years of deindustrialisation and 14 years of Tory austerity mean that wages are low, poverty is high, unemployment is high, economic inactivity is high, and…”

“I will get to the right hon. Member. It was the Conservative party that changed the benefits system to give us one benefit for all circumstances, in and out of work. For the Conservatives to now attempt to invent a deserving and undeserving poor dichotomy, when they made that change to one unified system—which was the …”

“The right hon. Member will note that I was making a point about the comparative rates in different areas of the country, including my own, and the impacts of deindustrialisation over the last 50 years, rather than about national rates. On the Labour Benches, we deal with the world as it is—human lives in all their mess…”

“I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree that the statistics on below-average-income households are published annually by the Department for Work and Pensions, which is the source of the statistic that he so cleverly deployed in the course of his argument.”

“I say to the people in my constituency and elsewhere who have raised questions with me about this policy that in order to will the ends, you have to will the means. Save the Children published this morning some polling showing that 78% of the country want to see child poverty cut. The fastest and most effective way to …”

“Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I say to those on the Opposition Benches who are telling people already in work to go out and get a job: what are those people supposed to do? Are they supposed to send their five-year-olds out on a paper round to make the money add up when it does not? Do not talk to me about…”

“There are many small and medium-sized enterprises in advanced manufacturing supply chains in my bit of the Black Country. Does the Chancellor agree that successfully implementing our industrial strategy is vital to securing the growth, through small businesses, that we need to get British industry back on track?”

“16. What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of jobcentre work coaches in directing people to English for speakers of other languages courses.”

“I thank the Minister for her answer. I recently visited Tipton Jobcentre Plus, and I pay tribute to the great work of the staff based there in what is a really tough jobs market. They told me that they would value the ability to refer jobseekers to an intensive ESOL course, with the expectation that the jobseeker atten…”

“I thank my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary for her words, particularly about the dedicated frontline police officers of West Midlands police who serve my community and hers. It is clearly time for the chief constable to go. It is right that we expect a high standard of community engagement across all our communiti…”

“I am coming back to Peter from UK Steel. What are the EU’s impending steel measures going to do to the UK steel sector?”

“I also want to ask about rules of origin and the extent to which the steel industry may be affected by some of the increasing concerns around the world about exactly where products have come from. Do you have a comment on that, Peter?”

“Would you like to comment on what your hopes are for UK CBAM and how steel producers are finding it after these first couple of days of having to negotiate EU CBAM?”

“When the steel strategy comes—we all hope it will do so soon—what should it say on this matter to protect the UK steel industry?”

“I support calls by my union, Unite, for a speedy decision on crewed helicopters. I hope soon for good news on that front in the defence investment plan, which we all look forward to so very much. Might the Minister have any news on the manufacture of autonomous helicopters here in the UK, and on the good jobs that will…”