Speeches by Maynard.

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

“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…”

“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 thank my hon. Friend for his fantastic speech, and I thank all the other Members who have spoken for theirs. They have really struck a chord. The Windrush flows through the town of Witney and the rest of my constituency. The Empire Windrush was named after the river, so many in my constituency have a connection, whic…”

“I am. I thank the Government for their Windrush compensation scheme improvements, and I look forward to their moving much more speedily than the previous Government in delivering them.”

“I am honoured to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) for letting me wrap up this debate, and I thank all the speakers who spoke so well and eloquently about the places they represent and love. I am the Liberal Democrat MP for Witney an…”

“It is very clear that many in this Chamber believe that our Government are not doing enough. Will the Minister please acknowledge that sentiment? Given the disproportionate scale of killing, will she please apply consistency to our approach and commit to suspending all arms sales to Israel?”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank the hon. Members for Makerfield (Josh Simons) and for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe), who gave us very different views of their constituencies, but were linked by their love for them. I stand here today to represent the people of Witney. I am incredibly grateful to them for electi…”