Speeches by Maynard.

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In response to a recommendation by the Committee on Standards, I would like to apologise to the House for failing to register several interests within the 28-day period set by the House. They included my receipt of pro bono legal advice to support my intervention, at the High …”

“Finally, on pension tax relief, you were asking what it would look like and what it would shape. We could apply it to listed companies in the UK with no net loss of tax by applying a higher tax relief to domestic companies and a lower tax relief to foreign ones. Those could net out against each other. You essentially h…”

“It is good to meet you both. Talking about state lending and private lending, I am just curious about the space in the middle in terms of co-operatives or US-style savings and loans. That is very local and very commercial. I am always a little sceptical about how good the state is as a lender. How interesting is that? …”

“Just following up on that, the Lord Mayor and the BVCA have been looking over at the US and the venture capital market over there. They have exempt reporting advisers, which go up to $150 million. If it is going primarily into VC, there is a much lower level of regulation. That is one thing. The other aspect is that yo…”

“That is good. We did not know that. I have another question. Could the national wealth fund be better directed to co-invest along private capital into UK growth funds? Looking at that question, the question is, “Who is directing?” I will put it another way. Where is there room for improvement in terms of how the nation…”

“Minister, when does that get us to?”

“As many as 11% of pupils are missing out on the free school meals to which they are entitled. In many cases, they are not registered for reasons such as a fear of stigma or language barriers. In my Witney constituency, that means that around 230 children from the most disadvantaged homes may be missing out on a hot, he…”

“19. What assessment the child poverty unit has made of the potential merits of auto-enrolling eligible children for free school meals.”

“East West Rail is a huge project and will bring a lot of benefits, but my hon. Friend’s constituency of Ely and East Cambridgeshire is at the far end in Cambridgeshire and my constituency of Witney is at the far end in the west. Does she agree that such projects need to be spread county-wide? We desperately need transp…”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”

“On behalf of my party, I thank Richard Hughes for his service. We respect his resignation. I also thank Laura Gardiner, Professor Ciaran Martin and Huw Stephens for the very quick turnaround of the investigatory report on the leak. In that report, the point is made that, unlike all other IT systems and services, the OB…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“This is about pressure. If we know that we have secured this debate, and they know we have secured this debate ahead of 4 February, we are more likely to get a better result out of them. That is the key message.”

“I thank the Minister for that. I believe we have covered everything. I appreciate everybody’s being here. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House has considered reform of gambling regulation.”

“I would just say one thing: the national cancer plan is out in early February. My beg is that, if you are able to squeeze us in before that, it would make more of a difference than after that. If that is at all possible, that is my request.”

“I fully agree and will cover that shortly. The Lancet commission concluded that “gambling poses a threat to public health, the control of which requires a substantial expansion and tightening of gambling industry regulation”. So what should we do? First, we should limit the impact of gambling advertising, marketing and…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered reform of gambling regulation. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. We are here to talk about gambling regulation and to discuss the scale of the problem. There is clear evidence that current regulation of the gambling industry is not adequate to …”

“I thank the Minister and the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr French), as well as all the Members who attended the debate; and you, Sir Desmond, for chairing it. I appreciate the sensible, fair and respectful way that we have handled the debate and the shared recognition that gambling can …”

“Yes, I welcome it. The OBR has marked down economic growth for each of the next four years, which is bad news. We have a ballooning debt, which now sits at £2.9 trillion. Our debt costs have tripled in the last five years—yes, that is the Conservatives’ fault—and our Government debt is now more expensive than Italy’s. …”

“This is a Budget driven far more by political calculation than by the economic realities that the country faces. The Chancellor has an enormous majority—on paper, at least—and the country desperately needs change, but we now have a second Budget in which the Government have failed to demonstrate that they have any big …”