Speeches by Baldwin.

“It is outrageous that we only know the detailed speculation about this deal because of the briefing from the Mauritian Prime Minister to his Members of Parliament. It is outrageous that the amount of money being talked about now is £18 billion, which is enough to pay for the winter fuel allowance for all our pensioners…”

“I was asking Mary.”

“When we will see that?”

“That is for the ones that are coming out on 26 March. Are you expecting these changes to the weightings to have a big impact on the headline employment figures?”

“You mentioned the revisions, some of which are vast and are certainly more than the size of a constituency. Are you saying that, now that you have started using more administrative data, such as on things like people’s national insurance numbers and so on, you are less likely to see revisions of that size?”

“Can I just back to the subject that we have been discussing for the whole session, which is the labour force survey and the interaction between that and the net migration statistics? You had a letter from the chief economist of the Bank of England about how often you update the population weights. Can you tell us how y…”

“My question is whether we should continue to expect to see revisions of the size that we have seen, or was that an anomalous period when there were these enormous revisions?”

“That is a really important point. Does the figure of 340,000 per year take account of this distortion?”

“Will we see this super interesting set of data later this year?”

“But the Bank of England will not have it in time for tomorrow’s decision.”

“Political action, though, can have an impact on many of these independent drivers of this uncertain statistic that you then report.”

“My questions are for Mary Gregory. Our constituents and public policymakers really need to have good information about net migration for the UK, and yet the former special adviser to the House of Commons Public Administration Committee said about the migration statistics that they were “all but meaningless”. Is that fa…”

“In terms of the challenge around this data, you have recently published some population projections, which I imagine are subject to similar levels of uncertainty. Is it realistic for politicians and political parties to say that they are going to target a specific level of net migration to the UK? Give your statisticia…”

“Thank you for calling me to speak, Ms Vaz. This debate on the petition has highlighted an unimaginably difficult situation when one’s child is seriously ill. In a series of important speeches and interventions, my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore), my right hon. Friend the Member for Rayleig…”

“This has been an excellent debate, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington (Gideon Amos) on securing it and thank the Backbench Business Committee for awarding it. A consistent theme throughout the debate has been the important role the post office plays in communities across our land, providing w…”

“I will try to avoid a word salad. We have heard from various different industrial sectors how important it is to have stable and predictable energy costs. This month has seen little sun and only intermittent wind, so we have been heavily dependent on imported oil and gas. Are Ministers in the Department for Business an…”

“I do not want to politicise this too much, because I think that had gone on for a long period of time, and the inquiry took a lot of evidence last year. I think my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton played a remarkable role in exonerating so many people, and in setting up the public inquiry. My next question …”

“I have given way. The previous Government worked to enter into a new partnership with post offices and came up with the idea that people could confirm their identity in person. That is a way of using that valuable network across the land. We recognise that vulnerable people sometimes struggle to verify their identity o…”

“I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman, thank you very much.”

“I am just getting to that—the hon. Gentleman is absolutely on point with where I am going. Sadly, it was under the previous Labour Government that the network really shrank in a major way, when the number of post offices went into sharp decline, before it then stabilised in the 2010s. In fact, during the entire time th…”