Speeches by Lake.

“That is very useful.”

“A number of Members have raised concerns about the discrepancies in incomes and average earnings across different regions and nations of the UK. Can the Minister give us an assurance that the Migration Advisory Committee will look at those?”

“I appreciate that, and that is not what I am trying to say. Forgive me.”

“Can I begin by just welcoming the Secretary of State’s acknowledgement of the historic underfunding? As she rightly referred to, it is a topic that our predecessor Committee has looked into, and it is refreshing to have that acknowledgement now that there has been that historic underfunding. Another thing that the Secr…”

“I take what the Secretary of State is saying. Of course, the classification of HS2 as an England and Wales project does have long-term consequences. As far as the statement of funding policy and the Treasury is concerned, it does have an added weighting, and the comparability factor for DfT spending now, including rail…”

“Thank you, Chair, for allowing us to make this application. We have been very lucky in the past that the Backbench Business Committee has granted us a debate on St David’s day. Indeed, it has been held annually now since 2010, and the first, similar event took place back in 1944, so there is a great deal of precedent h…”

“It has been estimated that over 650 attacks have been launched on healthcare facilities in Gaza and more than 1,000 healthcare workers have been killed, injured or detained since October 2023. I recognise that the Minister has raised his concerns with his Israeli counterpart, but could he perhaps explain what the conse…”

“In 2022, the Prime Minister supported calls for fair and fast compensation for 1950s women impacted by the changes to the state pension. Yet, just yesterday, his Government rejected those same calls out of hand. Is that what the Prime Minister meant when he promised to lead a Government of change?”

“Of course, it also depends on the end user, as it were, receiving the information. In this case, we will also need the network. It is interesting because Storm Darragh perhaps highlighted the value of looking again at some of the mast sites in more rural or exposed areas to see whether we have ways of getting them back…”

“In terms of some of the river gauges, the stations themselves and getting the real-time data from those sites, does it depend on the mobile network?”

“Thank you, gentlemen, for coming this morning. I would like to turn to how you share information with responders during a storm event. In Storm Darragh we have a very recent example of how the incredibly strong high winds caused significant impact not only to people’s lives and property but also to key infrastructure. …”

“On that point, will the Minister give way?”

“On that point, will the Minister give way?”

“I associate myself with the words of the Secretary of State about all those impacted by Storm Darragh and all those working hard to restore power. The Welsh Government’s draft Budget yesterday noted that the UK Government will be providing additional support to mitigate the cost to public organisations of the additiona…”

“1. What assessment she has made of the impact of the autumn Budget 2024 on Wales.”

“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make a statement on the Government’s response to Storm Darragh.”

“Thank you for granting the urgent question, Mr Speaker. I thank the Minister for her reply and join her in expressing my condolences to the families of those two individuals who have tragically lost their lives. The storm left hundreds of thousands of homes without power and disrupted critical infrastructure. We are al…”

“Eleri, you mentioned something there that sparked a recollection of mine from speaking to somebody involved in the Dinorwig pumped storage scheme. The individual mentioned that it was a good job the UK Government built it back in the 1950s or thereabouts, because it would not be something that would necessarily attract…”

“I am going to continue very briefly on that point that Mr Rossiter made. In this discussion of how we balance some of the restrictions or conditions that we might want to place on developers, in the back of my mind I am thinking that we do not want to sell the family silver in all of this, either. Are there any example…”

“Do we need to have a discussion about what we mean by community benefit? Mr Ferguson, you referenced a review that the Welsh Government are undertaking. It strikes me that different technologies will have different merits, different advantages and also different community costs. Is there any work across the world—or pe…”