Speeches by Coleman.

“No? Okay, well that is possibly the most comprehensive report on what went wrong with PFI. It is only two years old; it was published in July 2023. I do not see how anybody can take forward what is going on without learning properly from the past. It identifies the problems that you have identified, but the No. 1 probl…”

“You have both read the White Fraiser report, I presume. Have you read it? Samantha Jones indicated dissent.”

“I am most grateful to the Minister for his statement. I hugely welcome the Government’s determination to increase trade, especially in the aftermath of Brexit. That is what it is all about: expanding and clarifying the spending limit for UK Export Finance. As we have heard, UK Export Finance has a very proud history of…”

“I am immensely surprised to hear that intervention—almost as surprised as I was to see Liberal Democrat Members put forward the customs union idea the other day! We struck a deal with the EU in May. We need to implement that deal. We need to see through the deal we are negotiating on food and drink. We need to talk abo…”

“The Chancellor said recently that an “ambitious” youth experience scheme with the EU would be good for growth and good for business. The Centre for European Reform has estimated that such an agreement could add nearly 0.5% to UK GDP over 10 years. Can the Minister reassure my constituents that the Government will maxim…”

“3. What recent progress his Department has made on negotiations with the EU on a youth experience scheme.”

“Jim, because of time, if you would not mind, would you write to us with that same information?”

“The Food and Drink Federation having meetings with Ministers across any areas, yes.”

“Extraordinary. How many meetings have you and the Food and Drink Federation had with Ministers and civil servants over the past four years? Would it be 50 or 60?”

“Did nobody in Government insist that there should be more of a gap?”

“Did you say a week between you leaving Government and joining the big lobbying organisation for the food industry?”

“How much gap was there between you leaving Government and joining the Food and Drink Federation?”

“You mentioned the group; how many times has the group met in the last few years?”

“Kate, I noticed that you used to work for Government and, if I am right, you used to work for the Department of Health and then the Food Standards Agency.”

“Is there anything that you think the Government have done wrong and you have tried to change?”

“Jim, I am sorry to ask you fewer questions; I am very curtailed on time but there will be more coming to you from my colleagues. I want to ask about a Guardian investigation into lobbying by food and drink companies. How much do your organisations lobby to alter, weaken or delay measures to improve public health and re…”

“I keep asking one question and sort of getting a side answer. With your members, have you actually looked at the potential regulatory risk of not doing more to improve the healthiness and the nutritional value of your foods? Have you actually talked about regulatory risk? I would think that is fundamental.”

“I get that. Just talking about cost to business again, if I may. At the moment there is a lot of focus on improving regulation to protect people’s health. We had the three shifts in public health and one is prevention. Food is—and you can start with baby food—damaging people’s health; there is increasing evidence of th…”

“Just a yes or no.”

“More salt and sugar? Preservatives?”