Speeches by Maynard.

“We talked about this in the Chamber a couple of weeks ago. India is importing oil and gas from Russia, and it has a number of refineries—I think four out of five are state-owned, with the fifth being Reliance. It is processing its oil and gas into petrochemical products and exporting them, including to the UK. Essentia…”

“Why?”

“That is the Europeans, but what about the Americans? Does that mean we would not do it without the Europeans, but we are okay to do it without the Americans?”

“Is the UK supportive of a full maritime services ban on Russian-related products or not?”

“On the point about passionately defending independence, a consultation is out at the moment, I understand, to take down the independent panel. That does not sit well in terms of passionately defending independence.”

“A very fair answer. We possibly have strategic market status coming down the pipe for Amazon with cloud services. There are also digital advertising, online marketplace and e-commerce out there as well as other possibilities. As was widely reported, and our Chair just mentioned, there was not a single veto of a merger …”

“Let me jog your memory. In 2012-13, the Office of Fair Trading, the CMA's predecessor, investigated Amazon for suspected anti-competitive practices related to price parity. In 2022, there was an investigation into Amazon Marketplace. A fake reviews investigation was undertaken from 2021 to 2025—that took four years. Th…”

“Okay, but what about Amazon UK's interactions during that time? Do you want to add anything else there?”

“I start by declaring an of interest. I used to work in M&A and I founded a business in 1996. I still own a stake in it, though I have no role or responsibility in it. It is called BDA Partners. It is in my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Doug, you have a very impressive resumé. Many congratulatio…”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I will not burden the House with too long a speech. There are a lot of issues with the Government’s and the country’s economic policymaking process, but there are good arguments for reducing the number of fiscal events, which create artificial cliff edges. However, I note the concer…”

“It has been a very painful path to get to this point, but I simply want to welcome what the Government are bringing in. Reversing the decision on the two-child limit will lift 540,000 children out of absolute poverty, and it is unquestionably the right thing to do—certainly for those children and for their families, bu…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Barker. I thank the hon. Member for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) for introducing this important debate so well and with such balance—I really appreciate it. I am proud and relieved that we live in a country with some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Obvious…”

“Yes, I am. I congratulate the Chair and members of the Work and Pensions Committee on doing all that good work; many thanks to them. Assessing the wider issues may encourage the Government to take steps beyond this welcome but narrow Bill to support children and their families who are struggling to get by from week to …”

“Dr Steedman, I am going to focus on you primarily because I think the other two have some potential conflict: one is in charge of a trade association and the other is a key exporter, so it is difficult to speak too openly about the Trump situation. Just to give the example of Greenland: on 17 January this year, Trump s…”

“How clear and present is this threat?”

“Sticking with that, what would be your countermeasure or your strategy to mitigate or manage that as best as possible if you were the UK Government?”

“You mentioned 10 years, and that the UK is comparatively going backwards on investment, R&D and trials. You did not mention it, but we are 60% down in terms of clinical trials in the UK since Brexit. To what extent is it the elephant in the room? Is it Brexit as well? Try to give us a comparative scale of the damage do…”

“I apologise.”

“We have four minutes to go, including a wind-up speech. I wonder whether the Minister is going to get to my point.”

“The individual was a prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; somebody doing their job to the best of their ability. The bottom line is that he was cut off, and this could happen to us.”