Speeches by Grady.

“Then the other question I would ask is on the outputs from these models, which is coming back to the theme that Mr Glen picked up on. If I am looking for insurance, how is the industry doing at testing the outputs of these models to ensure that they are giving fair and justifiable answers? For example, the insurance pr…”

“On failed Budgets, my constituents go to the shops with terror at the rising prices that followed the Budget of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that is the very definition of a failed Budget—one that plunged many of my constituents into poverty?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Butler. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North East (Maureen Burke), who is my neighbour, for securing this important debate. Glasgow has disgraceful levels of absolute poverty, with families who cannot afford the essentials to live: food, heat, school uni…”

“I agree. Local government has been emasculated by the Tory Governments in England and Wales and the SNP Government in Scotland. I must say that they are pretty non-discriminatory in their emasculation, because they have failed to properly fund the SNP council in Glasgow for years. In Scotland, one cause of poverty is t…”

“They increased sentences for knife crime in Glasgow back in the ’90s. Are the sentences high enough?”

“These videos are very different from your standard financial services advert. You can go on and check that people are authorised, regulated and all the rest of it, but following on from Mr Glen’s question, is the way that we are regulating this, in a rules and legal sense, really up to date with what we need to meet th…”

“I suspect my question was not very good. What I was really getting at is whether there is a need for a regulated category of “activity of finfluencers”, or something like that, and specific regulation around it. I do not know the answer, but is that something we are considering?”

“Yes.”

“I think you would agree that these are serious crimes—on the more egregious side—with serious consequences for people. As a bit of context, in my career I saw people getting, for first offences, six years in jail for a robbery involving very little money being stolen. How many prosecutions have there been of finfluence…”

“If I were in my seat in Glasgow East and I said to people that there are 25,000 or so people breaking the law every year, with very serious consequences for old people, vulnerable people and all the rest of it, and there have been five prosecutions, they would say that that is an absolute scandal.”

“On prosecution and deterrence, I think people would say, at least in my former profession, that one reason for increasing the tariff of sentences is that it acts as a deterrent.”

“I think it would be helpful, Dame Meg, to follow up after this with some further questions about law reform and the regulatory framework, but I think we should leave that and proceed—”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Twigg. This clause and the other clauses in this chapter are good news for Scotland, because we in Scotland depend on projects in England to proceed. Many projects are cross-border and need consent in both countries. That is important for jobs, particularly jobs for yo…”

“rose—”

“I am grateful. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. Is the hon. Member disagreeing with the evidence that we heard from Catherine Howard, one of the most eminent planning lawyers in the United Kingdom? Catherine Howard said: “We cannot magic up more comms consultants, lawyers, environmental imp…”

“I will make a couple of brief remarks as a resident Scottish MP. The Minister has referenced co-operation between the Scottish and UK Governments. That is to be welcomed; it reflects this Government’s determination to do right by Scotland and to work productively with the SNP Government in Holyrood. These provisions wi…”

“I rise simply to add my support to this provision. There is an extensive requirement to develop the electricity generation industry in Scotland and England, and this will give rise to great long-term jobs and apprenticeships for young people, as well as move us on to cheaper, secure, lower-carbon energy. Such queues ha…”

“I thank the Minister, although he must feel awfully lonely as the Front-Bench Scotsman. As the Member for Rutherglen just on the other side of the Clyde from me, does he agree that the charging of fees for necessary wayleaves is a rather odd way to relitigate the referendum that took place in 1999, and a rather odd way…”

“Does the hon. Gentleman agree that people are also very concerned about the anaemic economic growth in the United Kingdom over the past 14 years, as well as the housing and energy crises, and that the Bill seeks to strike a balance between all these competing considerations? At the moment, we do not have a balance—the …”

“rose—”