Speeches by McVey.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for moving the motion and to the vast number of people—720,000, including 1,093 from my constituency of Tatton—who signed this important petition and prompted this…”

“I call the Minister, mindful that I would like to give some time to the hon. Member for Poole to wind up the debate.”

“I call the Minister, hopeful that Harpreet Uppal will have a couple of minutes at the end to wind up.”

“As three Members wish to speak, the time limit for speeches is three to four minutes, because we are going to the Front Benchers at 3.30 pm.”

“Order. I will call the Front Benchers from 3.30; I will not impose a fixed time limit, but about six or seven people want to speak.”

“I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called. I will call the Front-Bench spokespeople at 5.10 pm. This debate is popular, so I set a time limit of three minutes and remind Members to keep interventions short.”

“It is a rather glorious day, so if people would like to remove their jackets, they should please feel free to do so.”

“Has the Minister discussed the Peak Cluster project with her international counterparts? What have they made of the lack of cost-benefit analysis by the British Government? Will carbon dioxide be imported from abroad into the UK if this ludicrous and unpopular proposal goes ahead?”

“I appreciate that the Minister might not be able to answer some of the very specific questions I raised, so could she make sure that the Gambling Minister writes to me with the answers?”

“Better support is needed from everywhere—that is what I am talking about—but those are key issues that are undermining the industry. That is why I will press on with the key matters today that are threatening the racing industry. Will the Minister assure the House that those affordability checks will be abandoned, desp…”

“It is a real pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. It is a pleasure to see leading trainer Nicky Henderson here today. That should indicate how important this debate is to the racing industry. I congratulate my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Spelthorne (Lincoln Jopp) on securing this debate. I …”

“I took part in Rupert Lowe’s independent rape gang inquiry—”

“I took part in the independent rape gang inquiry, meeting victims who had waited such a long time for justice and to see their abusers put behind bars. What does the Minister have to say to those victims who received a letter to say that their perpetrators are back on the streets? Is that a mistake and it will not happ…”

“On a point of order, Mr Speaker. In response to my question about the Peak Cluster project, the Minister for Climate implied that her Department was open to providing answers on that matter. I have sent numerous questions to the Department that have gone unanswered. They have been the most basic questions, such as “Wha…”

“Last week, the Government announced the first areas to be investigated as part of the rape gang inquiry, yet under their new Sentencing Act, rapists and child groomers will be released early from prison. The Minister must see that putting these criminals on the streets not only makes an absolute mockery of Labour’s rap…”

“Thank you.”

“I could do it on a Thursday, but it would need to be the second debate rather than the first. There were 26 people on it, so if I answer now, I might be knocking some of them out because that was sort of carefully collated, but I guess that we could get back to you on that? What were you thinking, Graham?”

“Thank you Chair and thank you colleagues. Graham and I are the co-chairs of the APPG on pandemic response and recovery and have been since 2021. Concerns about the MHRA continue and continue from a whole host of different groups. The MHRA is meant to be the body that ensures the safety and efficacy of medicines and med…”

“I thank the hon. Lady for giving way; I am listening to her very intently. Does she know what a measure of success would be in this puberty blocker trial? If 80% of the children on it were happy with the outcome, would that be a success? What are the ultimate measurements of success?”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”