Speeches by Snell.

“I thank the hon. Lady for her kind words about the amendment and the work that my colleagues are doing. My only point is that the final paragraph under subsection (7) of new clause 4 would allow such labelling “where the final significant production process occurred in the UK”, but that is one of the things that we are…”

“My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Just for the record, some of the tableware in the Members’ Dining Room is in fact German. I hope everyone will get behind a campaign to replace it.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I have sat through many similar debates about communities that have challenges. They are often cathartic but also a Top Trumps of misery in which we each seek to parade around the acute nature of the challenges we face in our communities, not because we want…”

“I have always found the hon. Gentleman to be a diligent shadow Minister, and I appreciate him taking this intervention. He mentioned levelling up, and Stoke-on-Trent was one of the cities that genuinely got one of the larger allocations. The challenge was that it was mainly capital, so it allowed us to build things, bu…”

“I genuinely welcome the significant investment in city regions around our country that the Chief Secretary has been able to announce. Stoke-on-Trent does not have a combined authority, and realistically will not have one for many years to come, but my constituents’ aspirations for significant growth and investment are …”

“I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.”

“I wish to speak briefly to new clause 1, which is a probing amendment that seeks to establish a couple of facts. I will start, however, by thanking the Minister for his time yesterday and for engaging with me on the matter. I know that he takes the matter of how we protect ceramics in the UK, and indeed how we can enha…”

“Yes, that is in Staffordshire, as my hon. Friend says. There are factories in Newcastle-under-Lyme as well. We are, however, seeing a proliferation of companies that seek to pass off material not made in the UK. Its firing will have taken place overseas and it will then be imported into the UK, with the decorating and …”

“As always, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. We in Stoke-on-Trent can talk at length about that pride, but I will not do so today, I promise, although we can talk about our pride that is associated with our industrial heritage. Rob Flello, who once served in this place and is now the chief executive of Ceramics UK, t…”

“The Minister rightly points out that the Bill will allow for new regulations to come on board to keep us safe, but the safety element of that comes about through the enforcement of those new rules. Can he say a little about the conversations happening across Government to ensure that our enforcement agencies are proper…”

“I beg to ask leave to withdraw the clause. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 4 Labelling for UK-produced or manufactured products “(1) The Secretary of State must establish a voluntary labelling system to indicate when a product has been produced or manufactured in the United Kingdom. (2) The label must be— (a) d…”

“The hon. Gentleman served as the chief of staff to Baroness May, who was the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister at different points. Is he honestly saying that he does not bear a single piece of responsibility for the situation that we find ourselves in today, given that he was at the heart of policymaking when this…”

“The point made by the hon. Member for Broadland and Fakenham (Jerome Mayhew) was about day one rights, but that right is to stop unfair dismissal from day one. Is it now the policy of the Conservative party to allow for unfair dismissal between the first and second days? If the shadow Minister is unhappy with that bein…”

“I will just make a point on attendance, because it does not apply to the MPs whose political position is abstention from this place. To equate attendance here with a good service would essentially cause all sorts of problems in Northern Ireland. I genuinely want to understand; we have spoken about “service” as an MP, b…”

“That was my question.”

“I was going to follow up on Neil’s point. With an MP paid to present for three hours, fielding phone calls, would there be any noticeable difference in the quality of the output and the understanding of the listener if, rather than being a fee-paid presenter, that MP were a non-paid guest with somebody else curating th…”

“How do you think about it?”

“I will pick up Carys’s point. What would you, as a post-broadcast regulator, expect broadcasters to be doing before broadcast to ensure they meet the due impartiality requirements? What is the gold standard in terms of politicians hosting programmes? About what would you tell them, “If you are doing this, you are hitti…”

“You said that some broadcasters are now finding ways of giving clarity by having a politician present their current affairs bit, throwing back to someone who is going to do the news bit, and then going back. I think you said that that can give an element of clarity about the roles of the individuals in the studio. Do y…”

“I appreciate that this is outside your sphere of regulatory competence, but do you think that politicians being able to opine, and have pages in newspapers giving their opinions and views, on current affairs undermines the impartiality of news as a whole? What impact might that have on broadcast news? Cristina Nicolott…”