Speeches by Mundell.

“I rise to support amendment 19, in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight East (Joe Robertson). I hope that the Minister listened to the compelling case that my hon. Friend made, and to the compelling case made by the hon. Member for Hitchin (Alistair Strathern) on the issue of spiking more generally. …”

“Given the strictures on time, I had better not. Previous Ministers said that there was no need for specific legislation on spiking, because it was already covered. Campaigning, including by your colleague, Madam Deputy Speaker, the First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, the hon. Member for Bradford South (Judith Cumm…”

“Order. I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate.”

“I call the Lib Dem spokesman.”

“I will direct my question to you, Nedjip. From your experience, what is the one insight you wish more decision makers understood about the real change that happens on the ground?”

“One of the biggest challenges in the UK, certainly representing a rural area, is that people in the immediate vicinity rarely benefit from significant energy projects within the curtilage of their community. Overcoming that within the structures that we have in the energy market in the UK is a huge challenge.”

“It is good that you can put that on the record.”

“I think you have answered my first question, which was going to be what the UK does most effectively. I will follow up by asking you this: is the UK achieving the right balance between supporting rapid scale-up and supporting inclusive and meaningful development outcomes? I think Torcuil will agree that in Scotland som…”

“I will direct my question to you, Nedjip. From your experience, what is the one insight you wish more decision makers understood about the real change that happens on the ground?”

“One of the biggest challenges in the UK, certainly representing a rural area, is that people in the immediate vicinity rarely benefit from significant energy projects within the curtilage of their community. Overcoming that within the structures that we have in the energy market in the UK is a huge challenge.”

“It is good that you can put that on the record.”

“I think you have answered my first question, which was going to be what the UK does most effectively. I will follow up by asking you this: is the UK achieving the right balance between supporting rapid scale-up and supporting inclusive and meaningful development outcomes? I think Torcuil will agree that in Scotland som…”

“As co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on nuclear energy, and having championed the nuclear industry for 20 years in this Parliament, even when it was not popular on either side of the House, I very much welcome today’s announcement, because I have seen over 60 years in my constituency the economic impact of …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. I declare my interest as co-chair of both the APPG on nutrition for development and the APPG on HIV, AIDS and sexual health. This is a period of great uncertainty, not just because of what has happened in the US, but because of what is happening in the UK…”

“I welcome the hon. Lady’s comments. It is very important we emphasise that it is women and girls who will be most affected by those cuts. It is not those stereotypes sometimes presented by some in the US who are affected; it is women and girls.”

“I welcome the point that the hon. Gentleman is raising. There is also an issue with cash machines inside shops that may be open for longer, but they are stocked from the shop by the cash received in the premises. There can be cash machines in a shop that have no cash in them, but Link has to take them into account when…”

“Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that the location of many of these sites are in rural areas, which are often served primarily by retained firefighters? They are a long way from where specialist firefighting resources would come from, and that does not seem to be taken into account fully in the planning process…”

“Does my hon. Friend understand that people are very angry about bank closures, and about the fact they feel that the banks just do not listen to them when they go through some consultation exercise? That is why in Moffat, at 2 pm tomorrow, there will be a protest outside the closing Bank of Scotland.”

“Will the Leader of the House bring forward a specific debate that focuses on the 80th anniversary of VJ Day and the end of the war in the far east, so that the horrific conditions in which those, for example, in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers had to fight and the conditions that people faced as prisoners of war can …”

“In that case, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will start with my ask of the Minister, which is that the criteria for assessing whether there should be a free-to-use cash machine in a community be reassessed. For example, in my constituency, the Bank of Scotland closed its branch in the community of Moffat on the same day as it…”