Speeches by Glen.

“It is a privilege to make a contribution in this important seasonal debate. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for North Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) for bringing the debate to the House and commend him on his work chairing the Public Accounts Committee. As he set out, the NHS faces a number of enduri…”

“I warmly welcome the Government’s commitment to extend the help to save scheme, which has been running for seven years. Martin Lewis describes it as “a very clever scheme and one that will work for many people.” May I urge the Minister to look at what needs to be done to raise awareness of it, because the actual uptake…”

“On 4 February, I met Janet Williams and Emma Murphy from the national valproate campaign, In-FACT, the Independent Fetal Anti-convulsant Trust. Later that week, the hon. Members for Rushcliffe (James Naish), and for Washington and Gateshead South (Mrs Hodgson), and my right hon. Friend the Member for Dumfriesshire, Cly…”

“I thank the hon. Lady for her reply. I want to make her aware of a cross-party group that has been set up in Parliament, supported by the hon. Member for St Albans (Daisy Cooper), the hon. Member for Chester North and Neston (Samantha Dixon), and others who represent cathedral cities. We want to help the Second Church …”

“On Monday, I met the director of Salisbury playhouse. She warmly welcomed the £85 million creative foundations fund, which she thought would be highly applicable to Salisbury playhouse, one of the few producing theatres in the south-west. She also told me about the 5,600 local children who were given subsidised tickets…”

“4. What recent estimate the Church has made of the contribution of its cathedrals to local economies.”

“Your extensive written evidence points out the fact that the LISA, as it evolved with the penalty and those other rules, is not what you put up.”

“Is it not really a better supplementary vehicle for basic rate taxpayers?”

“It was Treasury officials, I suspect.”

“If you had a separate LISA that was for pensions and had a different profile from the start around equities and not cash, it would be a perfectly proper alternative, would it not? The only thing that is really in play here is the issue of the legacy providers in the pensions industry that do not want to have this.”

“Where is the dividing line?”

“Your extensive written evidence points out the fact that the LISA, as it evolved with the penalty and those other rules, is not what you put up.”

“Let us take that as reasonable.”

“If we assume that the caps and the penalties are sorted out, we have seen substantial evidence that, as a saving vehicle for somebody wanting a deposit to buy their first home, it has proved to be a success. I want to just probe and get some clarity over what happens afterwards, because, Mr Byrnes, you have said that 7…”

“The point is that you could have a separate LISA product for pensions and for long-term savings, perfectly reasonably.”

“I was very sympathetic to it, I must say.”

“That is dead now, is it not?”

“Where is the dividing line?”

“If you had a separate LISA that was for pensions and had a different profile from the start around equities and not cash, it would be a perfectly proper alternative, would it not? The only thing that is really in play here is the issue of the legacy providers in the pensions industry that do not want to have this.”

“The point is that you could have a separate LISA product for pensions and for long-term savings, perfectly reasonably.”