Speeches by Maynard.

“That would be helpful.”

“I have a question for you, Tom. Do the Government have the right approach on SPS, and what benefits will dynamic alignment bring? I am asking particularly in reference to the direction of travel, as I understand it, being a proposed UK-EU common SPS area. What are your thoughts about a common UK-EU customs zone, where …”

“Paul, what you said over the Christmas period was really useful. As you just expanded on, a customs union could help the UK to do better. I completely agree. Keir Starmer responded, perhaps to your comment, by saying, “Customs union not so much, maybe single market.” Given the concept of doing better for UK services, g…”

“Switzerland has a carve-out for gene editing.”

“Is there a trade-off here? I understand that we would really like this bit or that bit, and that it is very important for the oat sector to have this or that, but the EU is probably not going to be thinking in that level of granularity, given the super-tanker that it is. We have things such as the UK-EU common SPS area…”

“That is a very good question, but £100 million is 0.1% of £1.23 trillion. In materiality, it is important to think of it in that range. I do not think this is the way of going about it. I ask the Government to consider voting in favour of amendment 3, which would remove the transition period in respect of the changes t…”

“I very much agree with my hon. Friend. The Lib Dems welcome the U-turn by the Government in December raising the allowance to £2.5 million and welcome the change announced in the Budget permitting the allowance to be transferable between spouses and civil partners. But as the Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Af…”

“rose—”

“My apologies, Ms Ghani.”

“I thank my hon. Friend. [Interruption.] Would you like to intervene?”

“I guess we will have to check our social media accounts.”

“Farmers up and down the country should be really proud of the campaign that has forced the Government to rethink the completely short-sighted and ill-thought-out policy that has threatened the future of family farms up and down the country. I congratulate them on the result that they have secured. I think everyone in t…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Ian Roome) for securing this important debate and everybody who has spoken in it. There is a very strong message coming through about how much rural communities need this relief and how much they suffer. As my…”

“My hon. Friend speaks to the point. Of course, those people have been dead for many centuries, but we believe it is worth being able to access that information, and at the moment it is not accessible in most cases. That is something we really want to change. I look to Denmark’s registry-first legal architecture, with m…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Western. I thank the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Chris Evans) for securing the debate, and I thank Ellie for all her work, as well as Hugh and the others who are pushing very hard on this issue—many thanks indeed. I want to try to make this debate a bit broader in t…”

“During that process, did you have a named person that you could talk to, or was it all by letter or by email? How did it work practically?”

“Thank you for being here today, Mr Patterson. It is a difficult position to be in. I take the point about Wyn Williams, and I think deferring to that is reasonable. The Chair’s point about the scale of Fujitsu—it is £49 billion of market cap. This company can afford to pay a very substantial chunk. This whole problem w…”

“We have interest costs of 9.75% being paid. We have massive advisory fees coming out of the company. All the class A creditors’ legal fees—£15 million a month, give or take—were being paid for by Thames Water. To say that this is not all hitting the customers is not true. Who else is paying for this, if it is not ultim…”

“Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”

“I completely agree—well said. What is so depressing is that the Labour Government have embraced the Conservative’s mistakes over Thames Water, and our water sector more broadly, and then doubled down on them. The Government have been and continue to be hoodwinked by a bunch of hedge-funds whispering about financial Arm…”