Speeches by Kirkham.

“Q4. I start by congratulating Truro City football club, who have gone from homelessness to league champions in one season. In Cornwall, clean energy is a huge opportunity. We are fortunate to have vast natural resources, with onshore and offshore wind, geothermal and tidal. We have a strategically vital port and a work…”

“I sit on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, and we are also making submissions to the Cunliffe review. I do not believe ownership of water is outside the scope of the review. It will be looking at how our water is owned—maybe not nationalisation, but certainly other methods of ownership.”

“Does the Minister, in contrast with the last speaker, agree that the future of this country is in clean power, safely produced from our own natural resources, such as floating offshore wind in the Celtic sea, and ultimately in our infrastructure being built out of green British steel, not steel imported from China?”

“Cornwall is a big rural legal aid desert. We have many volunteers who would be prepared to help and Citizens Advice could act as an umbrella organisation. Will the Minister meet me to discuss how we can get some of that funding for access to legal aid in rural areas into Cornwall?”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for South Devon (Caroline Voaden) for securing this debate. Since I first wrote on social media asking my constituents whether they had been affected by fleecehold, I have had hundreds of messages, showing how much of a problem this is across the country. The way we build, own and manag…”

“I wish to add my voice as an MP from Cornwall to say that some of the actions the Government have taken so far on second homes have been really helpful. The Renters’ Rights Bill will help with those evictions when people are flipping their houses. I also ask that we look at the loophole between council tax and business…”

“5. What recent progress the client board has made on consulting hon. Members on the restoration and renewal programme.”

“The Renters’ Rights Bill will help to curtail the use of section 21 evictions to flip houses to holiday lets in Cornwall, but we still have a massive issue with second homes, and with holiday lets in particular. Can the Leader of the House find out what progress the Government are making on bringing in a registration s…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. As a new Member, I was very lucky to have a restoration and renewal tour. My question was more about how many MPs and Lords, since the change in Government, have been able to have a look round and have some information about the plans going ahead, and is there any idea of the time…”

“One year ago yesterday, my constituent James Henderson was killed with other aid workers from World Central Kitchen when taking humanitarian aid into Gaza. Jim’s family have told me that he would want confirmation from our Government that we are taking all conceivable steps to make sure that aid, power and supplies are…”

“I think the funds put into the port health authority were just to check 20% of the time. Border Force has so many other checks to do, and they are not experts in this. I think they were feeling—well, I will not put words in their mouths, but it looked like they were being slightly overwhelmed. Would you reconsider the …”

“That is different, though.”

“The illegal meat smuggling that is coming in seems to be on quite a large scale and it seems to overwhelm the resources that are there to stop it. Could you comment on that, because it seems to be quite a large gap?”

“Thank you.”

“We are hoping for an announcement in July.”

“On the actual system, there was something that said that there would be six weeks’ notice before it closed. Was that a mistake on the form on the system, then?”

“Janet, you mentioned July when you were talking about the SFIs. Just to try to get a bit more detail about the potential timeline for the new system, do you think July 2025 might be a realistic prospect for it reopening?”

“I also have a question about the recreational fleet. Are you looking at imposing any kind of measures upon them?”

“I was not in the room for the start of your answer about pollack, so I apologise for going back to pollack, but I am from Cornwall. I understand that it went down to zero TAC. The compensation ended this year for the fishers, and they are reporting issues with bycatch, which is stopping them fishing for other things. T…”

“Because the anecdotal evidence is very different: it is very clear, so that is causing the frustration really. If there is a big gap, could we know?”