Speeches by Kirkham.

“This was a Budget for young people. We are lifting the two-child benefit cap, bringing half a million children out of poverty; alongside free school meals, breakfast clubs, childcare and uniforms, we are reducing child poverty more than any Government ever. Our youth guarantee will make sure that every young person can…”

“It is really concerning that these leaks have happened before. I understand that the investigation is still under way, but could the OBR tell who was trying to access this information, and can my right hon. Friend confirm that this will be investigated fully? Can he also confirm when last there was headroom as low as £…”

“I recently presented a petition to restore Falmouth’s pool, which we lost three years ago. It got 5,754 wet signatures—over a quarter of the population of the town. We have a very active community interest company and private business support, and the mayor has just swum the length of the channel—in a different pool a …”

“I am so pleased that the riches beneath our feet in Cornwall will finally be taken out and used in a sustainable way that benefits the people of Cornwall. I am so pleased to see this strategy, as are the people of Cornwall. The Minister is coming to Cornwall and will visit the port in Falmouth, which I hope will benefi…”

“Cornwall has been campaigning for fair funding for years under successive Tory and Liberal Democrat Governments. We are so pleased with the fair funding formula 2.0. There have been some consultation changes, so can the Secretary of State please confirm that they will not disadvantage Cornwall and that we will get the …”

“The port of Falmouth has benefited from Government money for plug-in power, but it has been held back by the grid. The port is also trying to redevelop and expand, so that it can service the floating offshore wind sector, and bring in freight on the freight line that we lost 15 years ago. Will the Minister support the …”

“I want to quickly mention one of those 25% of people with ME who are severely affected: my constituent Alice. She cannot leave her room, and is scared to call for treatment in case she has to go into hospital: she has been into hospital twice, but people there are not sure how to treat her and they make it worse. I sim…”

“And the resources to redraft the planning policy documents?”

“So it is the funding to carry out the recommendations in the shoreline management plan?”

“I agree that rural households such as those in my part of Cornwall desperately need the warm homes plan. Does the hon. Member agree that other sources of energy provision—for instance, ground source heat pumps and liquid fuels such as hydrotreated vegetable oil—could also be included, and would be a good addition to th…”

“So it is the funding to carry out the recommendations in the shoreline management plan?”

“And the resources to redraft the planning policy documents?”

“I suppose I was looking at it from a slightly different angle. In Cornwall, people are still building luxury apartments and things right on the coast, and it is that development that does not seem the most sensible, and that we would be looking at curtailing a little bit. As of 2021, less than 6% of the coast was in a …”

“I live in Cornwall, so I was going to ask a bit more about housing and planning going into the future. We are still seeing houses built around our coast that are maybe in those managed realignment areas, or the roads right next to them are in those managed realignment areas. How are local authorities balancing the need…”

“I suppose I was looking at it from a slightly different angle. In Cornwall, people are still building luxury apartments and things right on the coast, and it is that development that does not seem the most sensible, and that we would be looking at curtailing a little bit. As of 2021, less than 6% of the coast was in a …”

“I live in Cornwall, so I was going to ask a bit more about housing and planning going into the future. We are still seeing houses built around our coast that are maybe in those managed realignment areas, or the roads right next to them are in those managed realignment areas. How are local authorities balancing the need…”

“I am a co-operative MP. When we went to Germany, we looked at how their water sector was organised, and it is municipally owned in small companies. Of course, it was not in the scope of the inquiry to look at mass nationalisation, but would municipal methods of owning water, not-for-profit, co-operative ownership, be i…”

“Just a little bit of reassurance for the industry that that fund will be ringfenced for those fishing and coastal communities—it will not be diluted?”

“Of state nationalisation, yes.”

“He did.”