Speeches by Taylor.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Peter Lamb) for securing this important debate, for bringing this issue to national attention and indeed—forgive the pun—for shining a light on it. [Hon. Members: “Ooh.”] I know, I could not resist; I apologise…”

“Thank you, Minister; it is good to see you again. Just to pick up on some of what the Chair has said, the reports coming from some of these NGOs are suggesting another Srebrenica. Many of us in the room signed the memorial book for that; I really hope that we will not be signing memorial books for what is happening in …”

“But how?”

“I agree, and we do not spend enough time on it in Parliament either. The point about the length of time is really valid, because what alarms me, and I am sure others, is that we heard some of the reports about arms being smuggled in months and months ago, yet the situation has not changed. The warnings that we are gett…”

“Thank you, Minister; it is good to see you again. Just to pick up on some of what the Chair has said, the reports coming from some of these NGOs are suggesting another Srebrenica. Many of us in the room signed the memorial book for that; I really hope that we will not be signing memorial books for what is happening in …”

“But how?”

“I agree, and we do not spend enough time on it in Parliament either. The point about the length of time is really valid, because what alarms me, and I am sure others, is that we heard some of the reports about arms being smuggled in months and months ago, yet the situation has not changed. The warnings that we are gett…”

“Thank you, Minister; it is good to see you again. Just to pick up on some of what the Chair has said, the reports coming from some of these NGOs are suggesting another Srebrenica. Many of us in the room signed the memorial book for that; I really hope that we will not be signing memorial books for what is happening in …”

“But how?”

“I agree, and we do not spend enough time on it in Parliament either. The point about the length of time is really valid, because what alarms me, and I am sure others, is that we heard some of the reports about arms being smuggled in months and months ago, yet the situation has not changed. The warnings that we are gett…”

“A constituent of mine tried to act as a good samaritan by handing in a handbag that they had found in the town centre, but they could not do so because Hemel Hempstead police station’s front desk had been closed under the last Government. They were told that they would have to travel to Hatfield police station, which i…”

“Last August, a police officer was hospitalised after being hit with a sledgehammer while responding to a Palestine Action attack on a business near Bristol—a fact that was absent from our debate when we voted to proscribe that organisation recently. The attackers had sledgehammers, axes, whips and other home-made weapo…”

“Can I ask a follow-up on that? There is a concern that some Syrians in the UK wanted me to raise—it is ultimately more a matter for the Home Office, but I wondered whether you had a view. The news that we are going to stop pausing asylum claims is very welcome. Germany has offered people whose status is not yet settled…”

“Turning to Syria now, the news there is a bit better, in the sense that we have seen the fall of a brutal dictator, and much joy among people in this country, including our vibrant Syrian community. But of course there are very many challenges, as you know—not least the ongoing worries around sectarian violence flaring…”

“Briefly to follow up on that overuse question, are you willing to share a view on what some of the biggest meat producers in the world are doing and whether they recognise the problem—China and the US in particular? Are they recognising the problem and taking action to reduce the overuse of antibiotics in meat producti…”

“You have spoken to a lot of the question already, so if you could potentially put 75% of your answer, both of you, into what reforms would be needed to get pandemic preparedness to a place where it should be at a global level. By all means spend a little bit of time saying anything else you have not said about how we a…”

“You have spoken to a lot of the question already, so if you could potentially put 75% of your answer, both of you, into what reforms would be needed to get pandemic preparedness to a place where it should be at a global level. By all means spend a little bit of time saying anything else you have not said about how we a…”

“Briefly to follow up on that overuse question, are you willing to share a view on what some of the biggest meat producers in the world are doing and whether they recognise the problem—China and the US in particular? Are they recognising the problem and taking action to reduce the overuse of antibiotics in meat producti…”

“7. What assessment he has made of the role of new nuclear in supporting a clean energy transition.”

“I was grateful to the Secretary of State for showing his love for Hemel Hempstead when he came to launch a new scheme on solar panels the other month. On the question of new nuclear and clean jobs, could the Minister outline how communities like mine in Hemel Hempstead will benefit from these new jobs?”