Speeches by Maynard.

“I want to ask a related question about the implementation of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 and the transformation of Companies House into a register that demonstrates the ultimate owner of property and companies. I would love to get a sense of a timeline for when that is going to be enacted, be…”

“If you are not keen on an online tax, and we recognise that it is a completely unbalanced playing field, what are we going to do about making sure that online players are on a level field from a tax perspective? I do not have a particular recommendation, but we all recognise that huge problem, which is eating our high …”

“I have just one follow-up—it may be a nitty-gritty bit, but it is quite a near-term nitty-gritty bit—on emissions trading systems. We have quite a big problem if we do not get that alignment in place. Is it a priority for you to align our emissions trading systems with the EU’s? Is that something that you are working t…”

“I have a question about the remit of the Board of Trade. Sweden has a very good board of trade, which is well recognised. To get some impartiality in the mix, would you favour having something similar to the OBR, impartially assessing the UK’s trade performance worldwide, focusing on how to minimise trade barriers and …”

“I have a small, practical follow-up. Do you favour maintaining regulatory alignment with EU standards so that we can sell products and services into the EU effectively? Where it is beneficial to diverge, we do so. As a principle, is just staying aligned, which will make our manufacturers much more competitive in Europe…”

“Good afternoon. Thank you for being here. UK goods exports have declined every year for the past five years. The OBR gave us a briefing yesterday, which we appreciate. It was very negative on the outlook for goods exports from the UK. In our briefing pack, page 57 shows the 5% gap in investment between the UK and the a…”

“The Liberal Democrats would like to see a much more fundamental reform of business rates. Although there are promises of further steps, it is disappointing that our new Government, with such a large majority, are not being more ambitious now. Our high streets will remain in deep trouble. The retail, hospitality and lei…”

“I find it more than ludicrous to hear the Tories lecturing Labour about red tape. What the Tories have served up to the country through Brexit and the damage they have done to our economy is a disaster. To hear them masquerading as—”

“My constituency of Witney has the Windrush, the Evenlode and the Thames, all of which have really impacted constituents today. We have just lost out on some FiPL—farming in protected landscapes—funding to produce modelling of the Windrush, which is upstream of Witney, our key market town in the constituency. That means…”

“T5. Will the Secretary of State give a clear date by which QR codes will be incorporated into the NHS app at the point of care, thereby making the process faster and safer, as was highlighted to me by Dr Steve Bright at the Windrush health centre in Witney?”

“In this Budget debate, I am going to focus on the massive disconnect between the Government’s talk about growth and investment and what the OBR considers will be the outcome. Sadly, we can want something and talk about it, but if we do not enact the policies, we are not going to get it. That will hit everybody across t…”

“How does that all gel with the fact that the OBR is saying that business investment will fall by 0.6%, as a share of GDP, by 2029? It sounds great, but it does not add up in the OBR’s eyes. Will the Minister please elaborate?”

“Thank you for being here today. Splitting the four schemes into two, there are two with a C—“conviction”—in them, OC and HCRS, and then there are GLO and HSS. Focusing on GLO and HSS, where people were not actually convicted, if I am correct, in both of them we are looking at £75,000 as the headline sum. You have answe…”

“Are there other targets that could be set to help accelerate the speed of redress?”

“Coming into this cold, or relatively cold, everything seems to start at the claimant’s end. A lot of onus is on the claimant to put bundles of information together. I just want to double-check this: how much visibility do you now have, in terms of full transparency of all the information the Post Office has?”

“I understand that DBT is administering the scheme, but they were postmasters with the Post Office. In terms of seeing inside its systems about what it has on its register for Horizon per postmaster, do you have full visibility of all that information?”

“In the Budget, the Chancellor has announced £1.8 billion for Post Office financial redress. How do you think that money should be spent to ensure fast and fair redress?”

“Finally, we are going to be meeting the Minister soon to discuss this. Do you have any broadbrush recommendations to them that have not been covered already?”

“Jill, thank you. Playing that bit back, your mum was putting in money repeatedly and then, finally, the Post Office or the auditors to the Post Office worked out that actually there was a four-times differential. They ultimately were able to figure out what she had put in. If they could work it out for your mum, why ar…”

“Good afternoon. Sir Alan has called for all claims on the GLO scheme to be completed and paid out by March 2025. Do you think that deadline would be helpful? If not, why not? If that date is picked, have you any recommendations for the steps that need to be taken to hit it?”