Speeches by Cane.

“So when you have an investigation with an outcome and you take action, do you sort of stand back from that and look at wider lessons to be learned for the Department?”

“Do you feel you are always able to take the actions you think should be taken, or are there any untouchable people or areas that you are not able to address?”

“Moving on, but possibly connected, you seem to have more staff wanting to leave than other organisations do, either immediately or in the next 12 months. What are you doing to try to keep those staff?”

“But you are getting comparatively low scores on leadership and development, compared to other Departments. Does that come to what you were talking about with your behaviour code for your leadership?”

“I welcomed much of the Minister’s statement. Shoplifting is a significant problem in my constituency, and shop workers in Littleport and Ely have recently told me how threatened they feel and how stressful it is. What will she do to ensure that our local police—who, as we have heard, are very stretched—have the resourc…”

“Thank you, Sir Christopher, for chairing this important debate on flood preparedness in Norfolk. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Norfolk (Steff Aquarone) on securing this debate and on his excellent speech highlighting the many challenges to flood preparedness in Norfolk and across our region. Indeed…”

“I agree that we need to make sure that as we are planning and building, we take flood risk into account and ensure that we are properly mitigating it. In her 2024 autumn Budget, the Chancellor committed £2.4 billion over the next couple of years for flood defences, but she added that significant funding pressures on th…”

“I am sorry, Sir Christopher. I will draw my remarks to a close.”

“I want to thank those who elected me as the first MP for the new Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency, although I follow in the Liberal footsteps of Clement Freud and others before him. I congratulate the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Irene Campbell) on making her first speech to this House; her constit…”