Speeches by Poynton.

“In your opening answer, the three areas that you outlined where you had a concern that regulation might be stifling growth were pace, duplication and contradiction. On the contradiction point, 55% of businesses that responded to a CBI survey said that they had two or three regulators, or potentially more. In the eviden…”

“That is for infrastructure. Is there an intent to do that across the piece? For example, I speak to those in the food industry. They have regulations coming at very short notice that change the way in which they understand whether a product is healthy or not. That has an impact on them with reformulation, advertising a…”

“Do you feel like you are trying to tackle the perception problem for investors? How are you going to track that? Are you going to measure it?”

“On innovation, Sarah Pritchard, the criticism I often hear, to be honest, is that there are businesses that are trying to do something that is perhaps slightly outside the norm and often it takes a long time for them to receive any kind of feedback on that from you. Is that a criticism you recognise and something you a…”

“To follow up on measuring, pace, particularly around innovation, is one of your four Ps. It is really vital. Again, it is a criticism I hear, if I am being honest, about regulators in this country. Are you measuring that? What does that look like, so we can understand that you have made a significant impact there?”

“5. What steps he is taking to improve relations with the EU.”

“The new agreement with the EU will help Scottish businesses to grow and to export. World-class producers such as Glenmorangie whisky, which is bottled in my constituency, Paterson’s shortbread, which is baked in my constituency, and the Scottish salmon industry have warmly welcomed the deal for Scotland. Why does the M…”

“This UK Labour Government are delivering the largest budgetary settlement in the history of devolution, with an extra £9.1 billion to invest in Scottish public services, yet the SNP Scottish Government continue to squander opportunity after opportunity and waste the public’s money. Will he join me in urging the SNP Sco…”

“1. What discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the potential impact of the spending review 2025 on Scottish public services.”

“I want to ask four quick questions, hopefully with four quick answers. I will ask the same to the Co-op, because I am keen to try to get an understanding of the differences and similarities of what happened to you both and your response. You say 17 April was the date that they got in, and you found that out later. What…”

“My last question is: were you able to access adequate support from Government from the moment the attack started?”

“I asked this of M&S as well, but in the House of Commons yesterday, the right hon. Member for Goole and Pocklington warned that cyber-attacks and ransomware attacks on major companies are happening: “It has come to my attention that one such company paid a very large sum to its blackmailer recently.” Was that you?”

“It sounds like your systems were segregated, so that helped you withstand some of the attacks.”

“Excellent. It sounds like you spoke to other retailers—you mentioned that, Rob. When you discovered the problem, did you alert other retailers in your sector that that was happening to you and what the signatures were that you could see clearly?”

“What date was that?”

“You said that it was a few days until you let your customers, your owners, know.”

“How long after that did you alert the authorities that that was happening?”

“You covered some of this with the Chair’s question, but it sounds like your systems were not particularly well segregated, given the legacy systems you had in place, which allowed them to move through your system. Would that be fair to say?”

“What was the date you went public with that?”

“My final question follows up from one the Chair asked, because I was not 100% sure about the answer you gave. Yesterday, in the House of Commons, the right hon. Member for Goole and Pocklington warned about cyber-attacks and ransomware attacks, and he said: “It has come to my attention that one such company paid a very…”