Speeches by Maynard.

“Why not?”

“I have a question for you, Rob, on single day-ahead coupling and contracts for difference. I would love to hear the National Grid’s perspective on whether single day-ahead coupling with Europe would be a good thing in terms of being able to trade electricity in and out between the UK and the EU more effectively, and wh…”

“Markus, BMW recently announced a delay to the £600 million investment in the BMW Mini factory. The Government just announced some changes to the ZEV mandate. What impact do those changes have on BMW’s decision? What else, if anything, would you like to see different?”

“This feels a lot more bearish than the first panel, and deservedly so. Car production has gone down by half since 2016. Goods exports, not just automotive, are down by 9% in the last five years. In terms of those trade frictions that have come in, how much are they hitting employment in the UK’s automotive sector as a …”

“If we were inside things such as the customs union and the single market, would that help us make more or fewer cars?”

“Mike, do you have anything to add?”

“I am just trying to pull that apart. It is a failure of regulation. You have the power, but it does not make sense economically for you to connect it up.”

“Yes.”

“Alistair McGirr, just looking at it from a consumer perspective, Witney is my constituency. I was in JSP’s manufacturing facility in Standlake last week. It has one of the biggest bits of injection moulding kit I have ever seen in my life, idle for the last five years because it cannot get power. Down the street, Abbot…”

“It is just a total failure of the regulatory environment.”

“Effectively, it is just not working. That is why we have 2034 dates and all this kind of craziness.”

“Are those pre-consented projects currently inside AR7 or not?”

“Just to spell that out for us, zonal pricing means that, if you are in the west midlands, you pay X; if you are in the south‑east, you pay Y.”

“Does the hon. Gentleman agree that adopting a policy of managed decline, as the Conservatives did in Oxfordshire in 2014, is a disaster, and is really not the appropriate way to fix the problems we have in front of us?”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Could the hon. Member elaborate a little bit on that £250 billion number and where it comes from?”

“Many apologies to you, Ms Lewell, and to the Minister. The signal that the Minister and the Government are sending to this and other regulated sectors is simply terrible. All that customers in my Witney constituency and across the whole catchment really want at this point is reliable, affordable, clean water to our hom…”

“None of the 60 amendments in the Commons, or however many there were, was accepted. The rejected proposals included putting flow meters on the outflows of sewage treatment works, which is sort of logical; establishing targets to reduce pollution over time, using existing benchmarks of hours of spilled sewage; making se…”

“I said that she is the chair of Water UK, which is the trade body for water companies, so I think that follows.”

“I want to play back what the Minster just said. It is up to either Ofwat or the Secretary of State to apply to the court to put the company into special administration. As the Minister wrote to me last July or September, one of those conditions is whether the company is unable, or likely to be unable, to pay its debts.…”