Speeches by Maynard.

“The CMA publishes its investigations and market studies. What about asking for information on lower-level things, just to see what it is doing? At the moment, we only see the odd investigation list but no other information about what it does. The thing we all want comfort on is, “Are you doing anything?” Would that be …”

“I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. The situation I described is obviously cruel, and this moving of the goalposts will make it miles crueller. To the point made by the right hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell), I really hope that the Minister is reading the room, because the country is up …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I thank the hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Tony Vaughan) for securing this important debate. This morning I met a constituent, Petra, who has been in the country for three and a half years. She works in the care sector. She works extremel…”

“I will let it pass from here. Question put, That the Bill be now read the Third time.”

“I welcome the White Paper and thank the Secretary of State and her team for their work. I am keen to understand how it will work in practice. As the Secretary of State will know, Thames Water’s largest equity shareholder wrote down its shareholding to zero in May 2024, so the equity is widely regarded as worthless. Tha…”

“I absolutely agree—well said. The Government may well say that the Bill will not affect low earners, who are likely not to be saving £2,000 in a given year, as the hon. Member for Harlow (Chris Vince) has just said. However, that is too simplistic a way to look at this issue. The impact assessment by His Majesty’s Reve…”

“My chief concern with this Bill is that, like a lot of the measures that the Chancellor announced in the Budget, it looks like it may be a route to some medium-term increased tax revenues, but it gives no thought to longer-term consequences. That will help the Chancellor meet her fiscal rules, but I say “may” because t…”

“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…”

“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 …”

“That would be helpful.”

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

“Labour is a separate conversation, but if we had goods, capital and services—it takes two to tango; I get that—would that be something to which you would instinctively say, “That sounds good, because it worked before”?”

“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…”

“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…”

“rose—”

“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…”