Speeches by Maguire.

“Does anyone else want to add anything?”

“On a small point of clarification, you mentioned the difficulty for smaller businesses to comply at the moment, and the list of businesses that is published online and how a lot of them are smaller businesses. How do you see those businesses complying with the new system, where, as you say, they may be penalised for no…”

“I declare an interest that I used to be a solicitor at DAC Beachcroft—the same law firm as Joanna Hunt. I am also the MP for North Cornwall. I thank you all for coming in. Do you welcome the Government’s decision to abandon their plans to require a Government-issued digital ID?”

“Dr Sumption, you mentioned earlier that the skilled workers have more options. Does that imply that that set of workers will be less deterred from coming here and that the other, less-skilled workers will be more?”

“A final point to close, following up on all that: do you see any particular group being deterred from coming to the UK and seeking that settlement status, or is it too early to say based on what we have seen so far?”

“Do you think that as well as generally making settlement routes more difficult, the proposals will impact migrants leaving the UK, or even not coming to the UK? I am particularly mindful of some constituency casework last week: a married couple living in the US has been hoping to come back to the UK to settle. The sala…”

“Thank you all for coming in today. We are obviously looking at the earned settlement proposals that the Government have announced. First, what main objectives do you think the Government are trying to achieve with these planned changes to settlement?”

“I do not think anyone is suggesting that. It is more the point before that: is the data being recorded to see whether the safeguarding you were talking about, which presumably goes off to the local government agencies, is being tracked and monitored to go on later to form part of Prevent? That is separate and outside P…”

“Or is there any monitoring to see whether we need that or not?”

“Could that model not be used elsewhere? You said earlier that you had almost identified the gap for violence-fixated individuals who do not quite meet the terrorism threshold. Is there a particular reason why those youth diversion orders cannot be used in that gap, as it were?”

“In terms of monitoring and policing that, would you suggest extra resources for local forces, or would it be an NCA-ringfenced extra pot of money that they get to police that and then, as you suggested, triage to other agencies as might be appropriate? I am aware that my local police force, Devon and Cornwall, are £3 m…”

“Talking about tackling some of this extremism, we have touched on social media and online harms, and obviously there has been the AI controversy and scandal with the horrendous Grok images that came out a few weeks ago. Where do you think the Government should be prioritising their resources to tackle these new forms o…”

“Moving on to the youth diversion orders, which you mentioned, how do you see them being used to counter extremism? How will you measure their success?”

“I want to follow up on Paul Kohler’s point. One of the pieces of evidence that Dame Sara mentioned earlier was about a bit of a black hole, in essence—again going back to what Paul was talking about—in the stage before Prevent. That is, not at the terrorism stage. Jonathan, you have already mentioned the safeguarding s…”

“Would you say there is space, then, for a middle-tier version of Prevent that looks specifically at extremism cases that do not meet the threshold you mentioned—7,306 cases not adopted by Prevent? Does there need to be that space in the middle that is covered by a similar programme to Prevent that covers not terrorism …”

“What timetable is there for that, approximately?”

“We talked briefly about the fact that lots of these cases do not quite meet the terrorism threshold. I am interested to hear what you are considering in the way of further measures to increase police powers to be able to intervene in cases of violence-fixated individuals, who do not quite meet the terrorism threshold, …”

“Do you know whether that data exists, or is it just not out there?”

“You mentioned cross-Government working, which reminded me that when Professor Alexis Jay came before the Committee she made exactly the same point. It does seem to be a bit of a recurring theme across different Governments. Can I dig into that a little more and ask what could be improved, particularly in this area of e…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Ives (Andrew George) on securing the urgent question and showing leadership on this crisis in the absence of a Government response. There has been no Cobra meeting and no declaration of a national emergency, and many of my North Cornwall constituents did not even receive …”