Speeches by Milne.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger. I thank the hon. Member for North East Hertfordshire (Chris Hinchliff) for leading this debate. I would like to focus on the biodiversity net gain industry, or BNG, which has been threatened by changes in Government policy. BNG is one of the most effective tool…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I thank people in my constituency and across the country for signing this petition in such numbers and with such great speed; that is very revealing of the distress that has been caused. The first question is how we got into this mess. This Government’s han…”

“A number of Members have drawn attention to manufacturers in their constituencies. I pay tribute to Chess Dynamics in my constituency of Horsham, which designs and builds world-leading tracking devices—they are absolutely state of the art. I too was in Ukraine last year and, in addition to our support, I was struck by …”

“The Minister is making lots of observations about the consultation that is going to go ahead—what is going to be in it, and how long it is going to take. What we do not know is when he will commit to bringing legislation before this House to act against social media.”

“I understand the consultation, but what about actual legislation?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Alec. I thank the hon. Member for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) for his balanced introduction to the debate. One of the things we get right in this country is our rigorous gun control laws. In the US, we can see the consequences of slack controls, which have result…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his suggestion. I am a big game meat fan, so I am certainly ready for that. Moving to a centralised, fully digitised licensing body akin to the DVLA or the DBS, with real-time verification at the point of sale, would directly address weaknesses, improve consistency, reduce fraud and allow pol…”

“I think a trip to Northern Ireland is on offer to the Minister, and I am sure that she would have an excellent host in the hon. Gentleman.”

“I absolutely agree. We should be doing work to improve what we already have; we do not need a radical change. I question whether taking action that would overwhelm licensing units would actually enhance public safety. Can we seriously expect people to wait years for a licence? We run the risk of turbocharging the black…”

“Absolutely: let us apply the laws that we already have, as they are well equipped to do the job. I have been contacted by many constituents about this issue. One constituent, Rob, works as a farm vet, so he is well placed to get an oversight of what is going on. He works with livestock farmers, visits large and small h…”

“That is very interesting. Ruth, the same question to you.”

“I have one last quick question. Where do most of your referrals come from? From jobcentres or somewhere else?”

“In any programme like this, the co-operation with local employers is absolutely crucial to success. I know that in my own constituency of Horsham, many of them have disengaged with the local jobcentre because they felt they were getting the wrong sort of candidate put in front of them. How well engaged do you think emp…”

“Thank you. David, how is the integration of local and national health in London?”

“Yes.”

“There is a great variety of services across the country, and the idea is to give freedom to allow local delivery, but there is also the national programme. How well do you think the national programmes integrate with local services? Ruth, you were talking earlier about how you did not want to conflict with or cancel ou…”

“If not that, any other suggestions? That was their top ask.”

“You could recommend it, push for it, lobby for it.”

“I managed a small business in the past, and it can be very difficult to deal with. We asked the businesses, “What would you like if you could have it? What is your first ask?” and they pinpointed a cut in national insurance contributions for taking on disabled or other abled staff. What are the prospects of that? Natio…”

“Many of the Vanguard businesses are large, though, and if you are a business of five people, it is a huge impact if one of them requires significant interventions or whatever. How would you respond to that?”