Speeches by Milne.

“Thank you. That is a pretty unanimous verdict. The Government have already committed to introducing a general duty of candour, which relates to some of these issues. Would you say that that would not be sufficient in itself? Do you think we need to go further?”

“On the hon. Member’s earlier point about Age UK, it estimates that just in my Horsham constituency it will cost £150,000 per year to cope with the changes and the extra charge. Age UK is not a business and cannot raise its prices; it can only cut its service. Does the hon. Member agree that when one in five pensioners …”

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“T2. A farmer in my constituency tells me that even in a good year he is lucky to see much beyond £20,000 in profit. With margins as wafer thin as that, regular farming barely qualifies as investable at all. The risk of losing a huge slice of that farm to inheritance tax at random intervals would not only go to putting …”

“Do you think that Governments over the years have been able to lay out a clear vision and rationale for what they are trying to achieve with the state pension? To frame that question a bit more closely, there is a big argument about whether the pension should be based on adequacy—as in, whether it actually meets the ba…”

“Indeed, as I will come on to, noise is the primary issue at stake here. Gatwick Airport Ltd, referred to as GAL, is a private company. As the operator at Gatwick, it has been tasked with masterminding the airspace review process. It is subject to oversight from a public body, the Civil Aviation Authority. Similarly, He…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the potential impact of the Gatwick airspace modernisation review on local communities. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. My constituency of Horsham lies to the west and south of Gatwick airport. I have brought today’s debate in order to represe…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. Indeed, there is a suspicion that part of the motive behind this is to enable an expansion, which has not been permitted yet. In this new design, flights would be concentrated over a much narrower band of countryside. The introduction of satellite-based navigation, which is …”

“I thank the right hon. Member for his intervention. I am aware that he has been fighting this cause for a very long time. I certainly agree with his comments and the need for a truly national process on this. The problem is identified by the CAA as a “scarce expertise in the industry…leading to inconsistent standards a…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. Indeed, part of the problem is that this process is in isolation from 100 other issues; infrastructure is very much one of them, because, as he says, it is already sadly lacking. As I was saying, the options show little to no variation from each other. It is not three choic…”

“I recognise that the Minister has not finished, but I am concerned that his points have, so far, been general. I wholly support the overall ambitions to reduce carbon emissions—I have absolutely no problem with that—but there are two issues. First, the consultation is not a genuine one because there is no real choice. …”

“Last month, the word “WASPI” made it into the Collins English Dictionary, which is a credit to the campaigners behind it. Does the Secretary of State agree that she has gone through the ombudsman’s report with, to use her own words, a fine-toothed comb, in order to get the answer that she always wanted to find in the f…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) for raising this vital issue. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for women worldwide, and many, if not all, Members will know somebody who has faced the frightening prospect of breast cancer treatment, which is unfortunately all too comm…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard (Alex Mayer) on her maiden speech, which was lovely to hear. She kept on the theme of buses as well, which is very impressive. There is a puzzle with rural bus services that needs to be solved. Local residents will all say they are desperate to save thei…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. My constituency includes a mix of rural and urban areas, but this tax hurts both, and that is the key point that I want to make. Local farms do not exist in isolation; they are part of an ecosystem of businesses that depend on each other to thrive. A local f…”

“In my constituency of Horsham, we are almost entirely surrounded by other areas that, for one reason or another, have constrained housing targets—they have areas of outstanding natural beauty, are in national parks or are already built up. As a result, under the duty to co-operate, Horsham has to take a very unfair pro…”

“You have talked about the need to protect vulnerable groups who may lose out from the removal of the Winter Fuel Payment and there has been a lot of focus on the Pension Credit element and trying to get all those people that are not claiming it but they are not the only groups. There is a much wider group of people who…”

“I agree and I am very supportive of it. However, there is nothing specific in that for pensioners losing out on winter fuel so it is a general payment that is considered necessary for everyone. In terms of targeting, either with that or any of the other benefits or mechanisms you are mentioning, they are not targeted, …”

“But it is not new.”

“It is targeted in the same way as before. It is not a response or a mitigation.”