Speeches by Coghlan.

“Last year in Ukraine, a Ukrainian MP told me that her husband had served on the frontline for eight years. She asked me if, in the event of a peace agreement, I would support British ground troops. I have, of course, questions about British ground troops, but I said that I would and that I am also potentially liable to…”

“Mr Athow, just going back to the patent box regime, I have seen academic research suggesting that it does not have that much impact. In your most recent customer survey, the majority of firms qualifying said that it had not stimulated any new innovation and had not impacted their overall business or investment decision…”

“I am very interested in cash ISAs and the changes to that. Could you explain to me, please, how you will implement both the charge on any interest in a stocks and shares ISA, the test to determine whether an investment should be either a cash-like investment or whether it is a stocks and shares ISA, how you will collec…”

“Mr Russell, just on that point, I have many pubs in my constituency going bust as a result of this. Are you not slightly shooting yourself in the foot, if you are causing businesses to go bust and therefore raising less tax?”

“You just said that you are moving from receiving yearly reporting to monthly reporting, but that you do not need extra resources. How does that work? Are you saying that the automation offsets that?”

“This all sounds quite complicated to me. Will you need extra resources to manage this?”

“Why was 65 chosen as the cut-off age for maintaining the existing cash ISA? Did you take legal advice on that? It does not match the state pension age.”

“On the R&D tax credits, I fully understand the compliance issues, but I have also had constituents complain to me that they have had vital reliefs delayed as a result of concerns around compliance. How on top of this issue are you?”

“I commend my hon. Friend for securing this invaluable debate. My constituent Billy was just four years old when he passed away due to DIPG—diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma—which is an incurable child brain tumour cancer. Every nine days a child is diagnosed with it. At the request of Billy’s parents I asked the Governm…”

“I was extremely proud to serve on the anti-Daesh campaign in the Foreign Office and the Army. It is important to recognise that that campaign is just and represents the UK learning lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq in what has been a largely successful intervention. I strongly welcome the new Government in Syria, but i…”

“I thank the Minister for his engagement with the various associations, which I know is appreciated. I also welcome the improvement in recruitment. However, how are veterans meant to feel that there is anything other than persecution when incidents such as Loughgall—an exemplary SAS counter-terrorism operation—are grant…”

“Few of us regret the departure of Maduro, but many of us are alarmed by the breach of international law. However, I am most alarmed by Trump’s concurrent threat to Greenland and his previous threat to Canada. The Foreign Secretary says that she likes to deal with the world as it is, so precisely how many NATO allies do…”

“Chancellor, you know that I am a fan of the Government’s language on public R&D. The OBR has published that a 10% increase in UK R&D capital would equate to a 1.9% long-term increase in productivity. Those are stunning numbers, given the 0.3% productivity downgrade creating a £16 billion fiscal black hole. I am struggl…”

“Of course, but given your belief in public R&D, do you think it is okay that we are only in the middle of the G7 in terms of our rate of public R&D, and that the UK has had the worst productivity crisis since the financial crisis?”

“As you know, the National Bureau of Economic Research in the US has published an estimate of the Brexit cost of 6% to 8% of GDP—effectively a £90 billion Brexit black hole. Given this, do you support the Liberal Democrat proposals for an EU customs union, as several Labour MPs do?”

“Exactly. In September, Draghi urged the EU to borrow for defence R&D, stating that that would decrease debt to GDP because GDP would grow faster than interest costs and that a 2% increase in total factor productivity would cut the public finance burden by a third over a decade. Do you think a similar approach could app…”

“In October 2021, my 17-year-old constituent Jennifer Chalkley, who was autistic, died by avoidable suicide. I fully acknowledge the role that perhaps the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives had in scrapping Sure Start, contributing to this crisis. Can I have your assurance, please, that you will properly fund both …”

“Chancellor, I have a quick follow-up question on R&D. In September, Draghi urged the EU to—”

“I would like to follow up on Yuan Yang’s point. When the Governor was in front of the Committee, we heard that from a finance theory point of view, it should be irrelevant whether you sell the gilts now or pay the interest on the losses over the life of the gilts, but surely that is not the case, because if you realise…”

“On Kenova, I can express only the horror experienced by some of the victims, but the wider context of our security services is very important. I worked in counter-terrorism in the Foreign Office, on the anti-ISIS campaign. The Secretary of State speaks about strict regulation, and that resonates. He speaks about “neith…”