Speeches by Dewhirst.

“Joe and Peter, do you have anything to add to those very comprehensive answers?”

“Can I ask each of the panellists, as briefly as you can, to outline what the Government could do to make UK recycling capacity far greater than it is now so that we are not reliant on exporting for recycling purposes and we encourage better-value recycled products in the UK?”

“Can I ask each of the panellists, as briefly as you can, to outline what the Government could do to make UK recycling capacity far greater than it is now so that we are not reliant on exporting for recycling purposes and we encourage better-value recycled products in the UK?”

“People are rightly concerned by reports that the Home Office is buying hotels to house asylum seekers. That appears to be completely at odds with the Government’s manifesto pledge to end the use of hotels. Will the Home Secretary or her Minister confirm to the House whether those reports are true or not true? Will she …”

“7. What steps her Department is taking to reduce the use of asylum accommodation.”

“The hon. Member has just painted a complex legislative picture. Does he not agree that there was a need for the 2022 legislation, because all the measures that he has just read out simply were not working?”

“Just to come to debt specifically, I get the impression, Sir Jon, from your answer just then that you are relatively comfortable with the overall debt level across the water companies. Are you concerned about some of the opaque structures that are being used in order to gear up? Do you share the concerns of customers t…”

“T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”

“It is nearly four years since Professor Sir Chris Whitty published his striking report on health in coastal communities. Covid inevitably delayed implementation, so will the Secretary of State look again at that report, deliver on the chief medical officer’s recommendations and ensure that my constituents in Bridlingto…”

“Absolutely. It is important that everybody works together, whether that means the pressure groups, the farmers or the Government. Sometimes, the two extremes of the debate need to understand each other. These things often seem simpler than they are. We do things on a farm for good reason, and often it might be for bett…”

“The hon. Gentleman and I have discussed the issue at length on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. Does he agree that we have to be careful to ensure that labelling is clear and does not disadvantage British farmers? It is very likely that we will be unable to label imported products in the same way, so …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I thank the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Irene Campbell) for her opening remarks. I want to declare an additional interest as, for three and a half years prior to last July, I was an employee of the National Pig Association, and my cousin is a …”

“Last week the Chancellor committed £9.6 billion over the next four years to the school rebuilding programme. Hornsea school and language college in my constituency is in dire need of a full rebuild, so can the Secretary of State commit today to including it in the next tranche of rebuilds? If she needs any persuading, …”

“It was 1999.”

“It is worth noting that the pig industry in the UK has reduced antibiotic usage by 69% since 2015. That is an industry initiative and should be applauded.”

“Is it the Minister’s ambition to align as closely as possible with the European Union’s plans to phase out cages, and farrowing crates in particular, given the symbiotic trading relationship—especially on products such as pig meat—between the EU and the UK, so that we do not have a similar situation to that involving s…”

“Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is very encouraging that the industry is already making great strides to move away from the traditional crating system to new flexible systems, and that we have already seen 8% change to those systems in the last couple of years?”

“I wholeheartedly support my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Blake Stephenson) in his call for the immediate deportation of foreign criminals. What is the Lord Chancellor doing to ensure that the courts are not holding up those deportations, and that once deported, those criminals are never allowed back on …”

“Had you done an impact assessment prior to introducing these policies, you could have recognised it and mitigated it. You are now talking about, “It is fine because farmers in their 60s should pass on their business”. Do you not accept that you should look specifically at those cases of farmers who are not in a positio…”

“I want to go one step back here. You are here today accepting that a certain section of the farming community is massively unfairly impacted by these changes to APR and BPR.”