Speeches by Morello.

“The hon. Gentleman raises the incredibly important issue of imports. Every pig or chicken farmer I speak to in West Dorset fully supports a transition, but they all raise the prospect of how we avoid driving up production costs and so increasing the cost to consumers and making imports look more attractive.”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Steve Darling) on securing the debate. I will be as brief as I can. I would love to talk about the lack of NHS dentist appointments in West Dorset or the problem with the funding model for community pharmacies, but instead I will just make the point that integrated c…”

“I understand the point that you have both been making about the powers to designate residing with the Executive. In terms of parliamentary scrutiny, though, we have seen, for example with FIRS, countries go on to the enhanced tier of FIRS without understanding why. You can look at other countries and, from the outside,…”

“You will have to forgive my ignorance on this, but on that differentiation between post designation and enforcement, I take your point about there being no feedback process for this. What role can or should Parliament have in understanding the effectiveness of the enforcement and of the sanction?”

“I understand the point that you have both been making about the powers to designate residing with the Executive. In terms of parliamentary scrutiny, though, we have seen, for example with FIRS, countries go on to the enhanced tier of FIRS without understanding why. You can look at other countries and, from the outside,…”

“You will have to forgive my ignorance on this, but on that differentiation between post designation and enforcement, I take your point about there being no feedback process for this. What role can or should Parliament have in understanding the effectiveness of the enforcement and of the sanction?”

“New solar is 11% cheaper than the lowest-cost fossil fuel, and onshore wind is 39% cheaper, yet the marginal pricing system that ties electricity costs to the market price of gas has resulted in British consumers enduring the fourth-highest global energy prices during a cost of living crisis. Does the Minister agree th…”

“7. What steps his Department is taking to decouple electricity and gas prices.”

“My hon. Friend is right that a lot of this comes down to the funding model. When funding is allocated under the current model, it is always rural communities that lose out. I ask that the rurality of places such as West Dorset be recognised in both the workplace planning and the resource allocation, because the south-w…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (Melanie Onn) on securing the debate. I was delighted to be able to support her application, because this issue deeply affects my constituents. Dentistry is in crisis nationally, and nowhere is that felt more so than in rural communities such as West Dors…”

“I know that my hon. Friend’s constituency suffers from a lot of the same issues as West Dorset, given their similarity. The consequences of the lack of NHS dental care are stark: only 36% of adults in West Dorset have seen a dentist in the past two years, and just 50% of children have had a dental appointment in that t…”

“I was touched by the hon. Gentleman’s story of his father’s role in contributing to the economy. I hope that he will be present in the immigration debate later this afternoon to make the same points about the vital work of immigrants contributing to wealth creation in the UK. The hon. Gentleman mentions NICs and the ot…”

“I will answer that with one of my favourite facts about Dorset: if we were a country, we would be the oldest in the world by population age. We are older than Japan.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Stuart—especially after that flattery. I congratulate the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Paul Davies) on securing this important debate. Parkinson’s, as has been said, is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. But behind every statistic is a family, a …”

“The Minister asked for specific questions. Part of the problem is that the cost of customer acquisition is four to five times larger in rural Britain than it is in urban areas, so the big companies prioritise urban areas, where they can find a lot of customers, leaving rural areas to small businesses that then face the…”

“I am Edward Morello and I am the MP for West Dorset.”

“I thank the hon. Lady for securing this important debate, and I agree 100% with the point that she is making. Two constituents in West Dorset support two children with multiple needs—overlapping autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and significant trauma of the kind she mentioned. The funding for a one-off …”

“Just to follow up on my hon. Friend’s point about the importance of mental health hubs, in West Dorset the only child and adolescent mental health services centre is in Dorchester, and for many people in my constituency, especially young people, that means at least a 30-mile round trip to access services. In rural Brit…”

“It might be worth making the point that only 10% of solar applications end up being built. The cumulative number of applications is completely irrelevant; what matters is the number that are actually built on the land, so while 7% of a constituency may be covered by applications, that is not a reflection of the percent…”

“I would just point out that the reason we get that concentration: grid capacity. The grid is constrained in the areas where there is the highest level of demand. It is unconstrained in the areas where we have the least amount of demand, which are rural areas. That is why we keep getting applications there. If we upgrad…”