Speeches by Maynard.

“In autumn 2029?”

“Okay. I will park that.”

“Mr Nair and Mr Bell, would you like to add anything on where you see particular advantages or competitive advantages of the UK versus the global field, whether inside your companies or more broadly?”

“Thank you all. Mr Bolton, you chair the Steel Council. What do you see as the competitive advantage of the steel sector in the UK today? Where do you think we have particular advantages? What would you recommend for growing those advantages and making our steel sector more competitive?”

“We left the European single day-ahead coupling energy trading system. Would rejoining the European energy market be a help in bringing down costs?”

“We were in a shipyard yesterday in Govan in Glasgow and certainly there was lots of steel, mainly imported from Sweden. I am slightly nervous about blowing in the wind as defence is hot right now, so people are saying, “Let’s build defence steels”. For anybody who would like to comment, is that a wise thing to be inves…”

“I thank the hon. Members for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur), for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) and for Birmingham Erdington (Paulette Hamilton), because I have enjoyed working with them on the Bill. We all have our own stories. I should state my personal interest. My sister Georgie is sitting in the Gal…”

“I think the hon. Member will agree that the shutting down of the SFI with no notice on Tuesday night is an awful situation. DEFRA has been either disorganised or sneaky, but either way it diminishes the trust of our farming communities in the Government.”

“Our country’s very high electricity costs are another huge problem facing businesses in my constituency and nationally. Reintegrating our power markets with Europe’s through the single-day ahead coupling system would cost our country nothing, save costs for businesses, reduce carbon dioxide and make our power markets m…”

“I am just looking at a couple of charts from the Office for Life Sciences. On pharma exports from 2013 to 2023, we were No. 6, and we are now No. 10. Ireland had smaller exports and now has triple our exports. On foreign direct investment, we were No. 6, and we are now No. 8. We are bouncing along below £1 billion most…”

“That is not my question. If we did go back today, would it be positive, negative or make no difference to your business in the UK?”

“Therefore, “no difference” is the answer. Would it be positive or negative? You can say, “I do not want to answer the question.””

“Steve, would it help, would it not help or no answer? I just want to get to the bottom of that.”

“My second question is for you, Sir John. You are busy with Genomics England, UK Biobank and Our Future Health. Are there any points from those that you would like to pull out and educate us about that would help the life sciences sector?”

“I will be very brief. Of the £40 million that this House put aside, less than £13 million has been spent, seven years on. We really want to get to the bottom of that because it is not doing anybody any good by just sitting in a bank account. We need some answers about how it will be spent fast on useful research.”

“The first bit was goods and then I said that total UK exports were 41% EU and it is 51% of the imports.”

“I have three very short questions. First, do you think it is a sensible goal to be heading towards a single market in electricity with the EU? Secondly, many interconnectors across the North Sea are linear, from A to B. Do you think we should be heading towards a mesh or a grid network in the North Sea with partners? T…”

“I refer Members to my list of interests. Dan, I want to cross-check on facts. The US is 15.3% of UK goods exports. You said that the next three were smaller than that. As per at least my phone now, Germany is at 7%, Ireland is at 6.4% and the Netherlands is at 6.2%. That is 19.6%. Total exports to the EU collectively a…”

“I will check that while we are talking, but thank you for that. I think that you take the point that, on goods, which is where the frictions have come in, the US is nowhere near the top three in Europe. I find it bizarre that you are talking about Australia, New Zealand and Canada, which might make up 5% of our goods e…”

“Is that true or not? None of that is true.”