Speeches by Gardiner.

“Do you wish this Committee to make that recommendation in its report?”

“Absolutely. I am not trying to beat people over the head here.”

“I was worried that when you said it, you seemed to allude only to money and the greater financing that the Government had put in, but you recognise that we are now talking about natural capital alongside produced capital, roads, bridges, buildings and social capital. When you spoke a moment ago, you talked about needin…”

“That would create greater national wealth. It is important that we get back to the good name of what used to be the Infrastructure Bank and say it is about creating wealth in this country. As we all know and as Dasgupta made clear, as well as many others, GDP is a poor indicator of wealth. It is an indicator of product…”

“Ms McGavin, in introducing the National Wealth Fund and the transition that you have made from the National Infrastructure Bank, you spoke of broader capital from Government. What did you mean by that?”

“You posed the question, quite rightly, of how will the farmer or landowner derive an income after 30 years or, with the SANGS, 80 years. How do we think of this as increasing our stock of natural capital as a country, which benefits everybody, but also recognising that there are people, some of them farmers and landown…”

“Ms Hammond, you used the key word earlier: “externalities”. The question that all this revolves around is who pays for the depletion of public goods, which are those externalities? On the one hand, it could be the person who pollutes, on the other hand it could be the public, or under an ecosystem services payment sche…”

“In effect, you said that perhaps it is at different levels, all three, but principally you focused on the second—somebody else getting an unjust cut of what would rightfully be due to the farmers. What regulatory action do you recommend that Government should take in order to address that specifically, that this Commit…”

“A wet year.”

“Ms Hammond, picking up on what Mr Carter said about sweating the assets, if you have a landholding of £5 million value and you are achieving from that what the previous head of the NFU said and the DEFRA figures bore out, between zero and £25,000 a year as your income, there are only three ways of looking at that. I wa…”

“Do you wish to see us move to what does Dasgupta called an inclusive wealth model?”

“Thank you. Ms McGavin, would you like to respond now that I have set up the skittle for you to knock down?”

“Ms Hammond, picking up on what Mr Carter said about sweating the assets, if you have a landholding of £5 million value and you are achieving from that what the previous head of the NFU said and the DEFRA figures bore out, between zero and £25,000 a year as your income, there are only three ways of looking at that. I wa…”

“A wet year.”

“In effect, you said that perhaps it is at different levels, all three, but principally you focused on the second—somebody else getting an unjust cut of what would rightfully be due to the farmers. What regulatory action do you recommend that Government should take in order to address that specifically, that this Commit…”

“Ms Hammond, you used the key word earlier: “externalities”. The question that all this revolves around is who pays for the depletion of public goods, which are those externalities? On the one hand, it could be the person who pollutes, on the other hand it could be the public, or under an ecosystem services payment sche…”

“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if he will make a statement on the situation in Bangladesh and recent attacks on the Hindu community there.”

“Thank you for allowing this urgent question, Mr Speaker. Since the fall of the previous Government in August, Bangladesh has seen more than 2,000 incidents of violence, most of which have been targeted against the minority Hindu community. Hindus make up less than 10% of the population of Bangladesh. As my hon. Friend …”

“It is clear that my right hon. Friend inherited a chaotic immigration situation from the last Government, and I commend her on the work she is doing. She rightly focused on international co-operation, but principally on removals. Does she accept that, in a world as interconnected as ours, migration can no longer adequa…”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”