Speeches by Riddell-Carpenter.

“I will continue. However, it is important to reiterate that while the changes to APR are significant, they are not the root problem facing the farming industry. If farming was profitable, farmers would be less worried about paying a new tax bill. The focus must be on making farming more profitable. Without profitabilit…”

“T7. The big six supermarkets are acting like a cartel, forcing unfair prices on farmers and pursuing unscrupulous practices such as farm washing. Does the Minister agree with me that we should look again at the Groceries Code Adjudicator and consider whether it is fit for purpose?”

“I want to start my contribution today by picking up where I left off this morning in my question to the Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade, my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough (Justin Madders). At the heart of the problem facing farming and profitability is an unfair supply chain. …”

“If it is transparent, it would be great if you could share the detail.”

“On the coast? Where would that be?”

“On the coast? Where would that be?”

“Good to see you, Mark. We are both new into our jobs, and I am conscious that there are four of my colleagues on the Committee who represent areas covered by Anglian Water. I want to pick up on a point made by my colleague, Andy. Your predecessor earned £1.3 million as a combined package for remuneration. I tried to fi…”

“I appreciate you have not completed a full financial year, but could you be in a situation where you would likely receive a bonus this financial year?”

“I appreciate we do not want to spend the entire session talking about bonuses, but this is a really important point. Naturally, there is a lack of consistency between each of the remuneration committees in different organisations, but we have just heard from Wessex Water that unless nine of the 12 minimum standards are…”

“I just want to ask a few questions on testing and sampling. When we last met, we discussed citizen scientists and the testing they conduct. You will appreciate that at Suffolk Coastal, we have a lot of bathing water. We have the entire coastline, but also some significant rivers—the River Blyth and the River Deben, whi…”

“The last time we spoke there was appetite for Anglian Water to work alongside some of that citizen testing work that is going on. There is so much work that they are doing and there is so much stuff that you as an organisation could do to help them, be it financially or more broadly just supporting their work, but I ap…”

“Thank you.”

“Suffolk is one of the hardest hit in terms of being the driest area of the region. I want to raise something that may be of interest to other Members; I am keen to hear your answer. Sizewell C is in my constituency. It does not have enough water to do the build-out programme, so is having to build a separate desalinati…”

“Good to see you, Mark. We are both new into our jobs, and I am conscious that there are four of my colleagues on the Committee who represent areas covered by Anglian Water. I want to pick up on a point made by my colleague, Andy. Your predecessor earned £1.3 million as a combined package for remuneration. I tried to fi…”

“I appreciate you have not completed a full financial year, but could you be in a situation where you would likely receive a bonus this financial year?”

“I appreciate we do not want to spend the entire session talking about bonuses, but this is a really important point. Naturally, there is a lack of consistency between each of the remuneration committees in different organisations, but we have just heard from Wessex Water that unless nine of the 12 minimum standards are…”

“If it is transparent, it would be great if you could share the detail.”

“I just want to ask a few questions on testing and sampling. When we last met, we discussed citizen scientists and the testing they conduct. You will appreciate that at Suffolk Coastal, we have a lot of bathing water. We have the entire coastline, but also some significant rivers—the River Blyth and the River Deben, whi…”

“The last time we spoke there was appetite for Anglian Water to work alongside some of that citizen testing work that is going on. There is so much work that they are doing and there is so much stuff that you as an organisation could do to help them, be it financially or more broadly just supporting their work, but I ap…”

“Thank you.”