Speeches by Cane.

“Can you give an example of something specific that has been done or is about to be done?”

“Farmers in Ely and East Cambridgeshire face the threats of flood and drought, which are made infinitely worse by the climate change that my right hon. Friend is talking about, in addition to all the other challenges that farmers are facing. Does he agree that the Government should invest in rural flood management and w…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South Devon (Caroline Voaden) on securing the debate and summing up the issues so comprehensively. I want to talk about transport. Successive Governments have judged transport investment by the number of people usi…”

“I welcome much of what was in the Prime Minister’s statement, particularly what he said about our continued support for the brave people of Ukraine, but I was shocked by what he has described as a difficult and painful decision to cut overseas aid. I suggest that it was nowhere near as difficult and painful as it will …”

“I agree—who wouldn’t?—but the EU has a structure. It has shared ideas, freedom of movement across the EU and things like that. It will have its red lines, just as we have our red lines. How are you trying to plan our negotiations so that you know how you will respond to their red lines? Nick Thomas-Symonds: I am pragma…”

“11. What steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase access to assessments for special educational needs.”

“Cambridgeshire has some of the lowest funding in England for GP practices and schools. Given the Government’s focus on growth for the area and the record demand for special educational needs and disabilities and young people’s mental health services, will the Minister work with colleagues across Government to ensure th…”

“Your manifesto committed to replacing the House of Lords with an alternative second Chamber and to consulting on proposals. What is your timetable for that consultation, and how will you ensure public input to it? Nick Thomas-Symonds: On the timetable, we will look to get the hereditary Bill on to the statute book in t…”

“How are you working with the various Departments that will be impacted? Your Government’s major priority is growth, so obviously, business and trade will have a big interest in these negotiations. But in terms of the youth mobility scheme, how will you be working with the Department for Business and Trade, the Home Off…”

“Good morning, Minister. You have largely answered my first question, which was about what the EU’s formal position was going to be. In other words, we do not know yet. We have heard various linkages that have been coming out, for example, on fisheries and youth mobility. How are you working to calibrate our negotiating…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. Labour’s family farm tax will be a disaster for hard-working farmers in Ely and East Cambridgeshire, and throughout the country, and they are farmers who have already suffered under years of Conservative cuts. This new tax policy threatens to devastate farms …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I congratulate my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) on securing this important debate. Businesses in Littleport, Soham and Ely work hard to keep the high streets lively, but they are undermined by increa…”

“6. What steps he is taking to support off-grid communities with energy prices.”

“Many of my constituents, as well as being off grid, have homes built of non-standard materials—clunch or wattle and daub—and those homes are also often listed. What support will the Minister provide to my constituents who are looking to retrofit their homes to move away from oil and improve insulation?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I congratulate the right hon. Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds) on securing the debate. I refer hon. Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I am a district councillor. Everyone deserves a decent home and should be able to f…”

“I agree with the hon. Member, and we need to look at the salaries for the trainers as well. We stand ready to support the Government to get more houses built, including in rural areas, but the planning reforms must work with local communities, not cut them out of the process. Local authorities must be resourced and emp…”

“T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

“Ministers have talked quite a bit today about expanded powers for magistrates courts. Could the Secretary of State tell me what additional funding is being made available and what training there will be for magistrates to assist them with this expanded role?”

“I agree with my hon. Friend and will come to that in a few minutes. Wetter winters and drier summers mean that our farmers cannot plant when they plan to, and sometimes they miss a whole crop round. The crops do not fully ripen, so they have reduced harvests. The Ouse Washes flood earlier each winter and the floods las…”

“I absolutely commend those restoration projects in the right place. As I say, in the fens we need the food as well as the wetlands, so we have to do the right thing in the right places. Something I like about this Bill is that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Minehead (Rachel Gilmour) said, it provides su…”