Speeches by Whitby.

“I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Children in care have often faced significant trauma, instability, neglect or abuse. As a result, many of them end up in the criminal justice system, and care leavers are 10 times more likely to end up in prison. Counselling has been shown to help kee…”

“11. What steps his Department is taking to help prevent the criminalisation of children while in care.”

“As we have had oil price shocks for 50 years now, the report suggests that we could have food price shocks due to food scarcity. Would you recommend to a group of MPs that we produce more of our food in the UK—and produce our own fertiliser?”

“Dr Redicker, are there any specific problems associated with framing biodiversity loss as a national security threat?”

“To what extent does the panel agree with the report’s central findings, notably its assessment with high confidence that global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity?”

“Will there be any further support for electric motorbikes?”

“We have already discussed the roughly one third of the population that do not have off-street parking. How does the Government plan to ensure EV charging infrastructure can be retrofitted into existing housing stock, especially for residents of flats without off-street parking?”

“In Europe—Germany and France—there are right to charge schemes. Is there any consideration of something like that for the UK?”

“Minister, electric car grants have clearly driven sales for EVs, but the Committee has heard that they have predominantly benefited higher-income households. I think you said a few moments ago that you wanted this to be an equitable transition. How can the Government help lower-income households participate in this tra…”

“The reality is that at the moment, by the time the Government respond, it is two or three years, and the data has died off. Would you support a change to the Environment Act to change those timescales and make the Government’s response and your reporting a bit quicker?”

“What more can the OEP do to give more timely and clearer warnings for when targets go off track, rather than just relying on retrospective annual reporting?”

“According to modelling from the National Energy System Operator, gas will still set the price of electricity 30% of the time by 2030, despite most of the energy being produced from renewables. Solar and wind are far cheaper than other forms of energy, and it is right that households across the UK, and in Derbyshire Dal…”

“I would be more than happy with local authorities having the capacity to limit holiday lets and so on—that is not a bad idea at all. It should not be too much to ask that a young person can live in the community that they grew up in.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Butler. I thank the hon. Member for Mid Dunbartonshire (Susan Murray) for securing this important debate. Young people face challenges with housing in every part of the country, and in rural communities such as Derbyshire Dales there are compounding pressures of exorbi…”

“I strongly welcome the Government’s amendments and support the live consultation on these matters. Social media has unfortunately become central to childhood, and the negatives are massively outweighing any positives. Even when social media is at its most benign, children are spending 40, 50 or maybe 60 hours a week on…”

“9. What steps his Department is taking to increase the roll-out of Healthy Babies funding to local authorities.”

“Sure Start delivered long-term health benefits, with the Institute for Fiscal Studies finding that it reduced the number of hospitalisations of young people with mental health-related causes by 50%. It is therefore appropriate for the Department of Health and Social Care to support our Best Start family hubs. Healthy B…”

“Is it encouraging people who were going to buy anyway? Is that what you are saying, to some extent?”

“They are so non-standard. For me anyway, but there you go.”

“Grants have been around for roughly 15 years, on and off. How effective have they been in driving the transition to EVs?”