Speeches by Coghlan.

“And that will include this particular issue.”

“Mr Rathi, in your evidence to the Lords you advanced the idea of metrics for tolerable harm or tolerable failure. How have those discussions advanced with the Government?”

“Specifically for cancer patients.”

“I have seen reporting that cancer patients are being priced out by being charged £3,000 for travel insurance. My constituents and the cancer support charity Maggie’s have raised that. Are you looking into it? If so, should you be? What are you doing about it?”

“Ms MacDonald, an issue for businesses in my constituency has been delays in processing refunds under the construction industry scheme. They are telling me that payments used to take five weeks, but now they are taking five to seven months. That has caused very serious cash flow issues for some businesses and in fact ha…”

“Essentially, you are saying that there is legitimate reason, not a lack of resources.”

“There is one final question from me. On R&D tax credits, I know you have had issues with refunds. Is there a risk that these issues could act as a disincentive to investment and a barrier to the Government’s objectives of driving innovation and growth?”

“Do you agree that quantitative tightening has no fiscal impact or, if it does, it is purely an accounting thing?”

“Governor, what is your view?”

“Dr Mann, I always assumed that quantitative tightening should be broadly inflation neutral and have no fiscal impact because the Bank of England base rate will largely offset the impact, but I have seen some fairly excited op-eds in the FT arguing that it does have real-world fiscal consequences of billions because of …”

“Is there anything you want to add, Governor?”

“Governor, you would agree that there has not been a threat to UK financial stability from liberation day. How about the increase in long-term US debt yields that we are seeing as a result of President Trump, but also potentially the tax cuts coming through? How concerned are you about that and the flow through to the U…”

“To your point, we have seen an increase in US bond yields and a rise in US tariffs, yet a fall in the dollar, which you would not expect. Do you think that there is a chance of that being a long-term threat to the dollar’s safe haven status?”

“Governor, we have seen a dramatic recovery in equity markets in recent weeks since the heavy sell-off following liberation day. To what extent do you support the hypothesis of the TACO trade, that the damage that President Trump does to the world economy is overstated because Trump always chickens out and he is terrifi…”

“To be clear, from a credibility standpoint, to do QE you have to say that you are going to do QT, I would imagine.”

“Given where we are now, why not just abandon QT? Would that be the same from a credibility point of view over the long term?”

“Many residents in my constituency complain about motorcycle noise from illegally modified exhausts. Can the Home Secretary inform me of her plans to help local police and local authorities address this nuisance?”

“Ms Allen, I see you are nodding. We are tight on time, but are you seeing similar trends?”

“We are very tight on time. Mr Davies and Mr Bhatia, do you have any comments on that?”

“Yes. Is it precautionary? Are you seeing that yourself or not?”