Speeches by Maguire.

“That is not the trend we are seeing.”

“But is there suddenly going to be lots of funding coming with the reforms? At the moment, there is not the funding to have the community police.”

“So December 2025 was the formal notification.”

“Earliest opportunity—do you have a date?”

“Okay. Maybe you can write to us on that and we can it follow up, because that seems extremely important.”

“December? After an election in July. That is extraordinary.”

“I am asking when the formal notification was given.”

“Is that December 2025 or 2024?”

“I appreciate that, but given all those measures, and looking 12 months down the line, are you confident that the rise will not be as high as it is this year, at 13% at least? If you are not confident that the numbers will go down, are you confident that the rise will not be as steep as this year?”

“It was a major project at the Home Office. I am quite surprised you have no idea when notification was given.”

“As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I congratulate the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East (Seamus Logan) on securing this really important debate today. I congratulate all the speakers who have participated. I thought they all made powerful and useful contributions to…”

“Does the hon. Member agree that a real devolution deal, similar to those enjoyed by our Celtic cousins, must include a roads budget that is equivalent to the Cornish proportion of the strategic road network? Equating to around £95 million a year, it could easily make the Tamar toll free, at around £15 million a year, a…”

“I absolutely agree with the hon. Member. Finally, my Launceston constituents in North Cornwall frequently use the Tamar bridge crossing, on which they rely to access healthcare at Derriford hospital in Plymouth, so they absolutely have to make that journey. It is not a shopping trip or a leisure trip; they really need …”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and hopefully he and I can make the argument to the Minister and her colleagues that some of that money should go to the Tamar bridge. There are certainly other road projects across Cornwall. The hon. Member for South East Cornwall spoke passionately about the A38, which…”

“I take up your kind invitation to make a short speech, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank the hon. Member for South East Cornwall (Anna Gelderd) for making an excellent speech and raising this important issue. I want to make a few brief points, particularly while we have the Roads Minister here. The national focus in recent…”

“I humbly ask the Minister to write to the Cornish MPs so we can see what proportion of that £2 billion—I think she said by 2030—might come to our region. Perhaps then we can see how it might contribute to reducing, or maybe even removing, the tolls on the bridge.”

“It is about having a stable token, then.”

“On a quick point of clarification, are you saying that if the Home Office were to move to an eVisa system similar to the model of the covid pass, with a stable ID token, potentially making that mandatory for immigrant workers, as Peter mentioned, that would remove the issues you have described in terms of unstable eVis…”

“Okay. I will go back to David. You mentioned the outreach programme that you run through your organisation. As a rural MP, I am particularly concerned about people who are digitally excluded, because the direction of travel is to roll out wider digital right-to-work checks. Alex also just touched on the mandatory requi…”

“I have one quick follow-up.”