Speeches by Stringer.

“Order—”

“May I say in the gentlest possible way to my hon. Friend the Minister that losing investment in Merseyside and the north-west is not compensated for by investment in the Oxford-Cambridge corridor, particularly as some years ago we lost Diamond Light Source from Daresbury? I would also like to ask him a question on a de…”

“I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to speak in the debate. We will start with a three-minute time limit on speeches.”

“We have gained a few minutes. I ask the Minister to leave a couple of minutes at the end for the proposer of the debate to wind up.”

“Order.”

“Order. This debate is for an hour and is well-subscribed, so I ask hon. Members to be brief in their interventions.”

“Order. I will call Sir Bernard Jenkin to move the motion and the Minister to respond. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention for 30-minute debates. I have been informed that two hon. Members have been given permission by the mover and the Minister to speak in the deba…”

“I call Ann Davies.”

“Order.”

“Minister, we have a generous amount of time left. Can you try to ensure that you leave at least two minutes for a winding-up speech?”

“We are back on schedule, so there are 10 minutes each for the Front-Bench spokespeople.”

“Order. Your four minutes are up. I call Alistair Carmichael.”

“On the time limit that I have set, if people took the four minutes, we would finish the Back-Bench speeches at 3.19 pm. One of the problems is that some people have put in to speak but are not standing. That made the calculation difficult, because I assumed that people who had put in to speak would be bobbing, and they…”

“Order. I call Jim Shannon.”

“Order. I remind hon. Members that they should bob if they wish to be called. The debate is well subscribed, so I am going to start with a four-minute limit. If there are a lot of interventions, that time will have to be reduced.”

“Order. If Members wish to make an intervention, they should stand to do so. It is up to the person who is speaking whether to accept an intervention. I was going to say this at the end of Ann Davies’s speech, but I will say it now. This debate is oversubscribed, so I will put a time limit on speeches. Members should ma…”

“My right hon. Friend’s statement stands in sharp contrast to that made on 25 May 2023 by the previous Secretary of State, when he completely forgot to put in his statement, both written and verbal, North Manchester general hospital. I am pleased that North Manchester general hospital is today in the first wave, but I w…”

“I am. I have one sentence. I am sorry; I did not realise I had speaking for so long. Lastly, Reboxetine is another example of where the information given out to doctors was inadequate because it did not show the negative tests. I use those two examples basically to show that the MHRA should not be enabling these things…”

“It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Tatton (Esther McVey). I agree with every word she said. It is late in the day for a Thursday, so I will try not to repeat many of the pieces of evidence and arguments that she proposed, but they are all valuable contributions to this debate. I will start by talking …”

“I am less sanguine about the report than my right hon. Friend. The report, or what is part of a report—it is difficult to assess when we do not know what the rest will say—has been too expensive and has taken too long to produce. From reading it, it does not seem to me to include some of the fundamental questions that …”