Speeches by Davies.

“Thank you for all the information that you have provided. You have articulated something that the public probably do not see. They see air pollution as being an urban problem, but it is a huge problem in rural areas too. Just leaning into that, you talked a little bit about how ammonia is 84% of those emissions from ag…”

“Do you think farmers and the agricultural community would welcome the opportunity to do more of that? Did you say it is thinner?”

“At the moment we are somewhat dependent on voluntary measures to reduce ammonia emissions through fertiliser use. If we created the climate where more farmers were minded to adopt the approach that you have described, do you think they would buy in?”

“We are moving to this mandatory food waste recycling and a lot of that will go into anaerobic digestion. Should we expect to see that increase then?”

“T6. I have previously raised the case of the Ada Belfield care centre in Belper with my hon. Friend the Minister. At the moment, it has an uncertain future, because the Reform-led Derbyshire county council may sell the home. May I ask her to take an interest in this case to make sure that we have adequate adult social …”

“I join the Minister in thanking our armed forces personnel who identified this threat and allowed us to take the action he has described. I note that real-terms defence spending fell by 22% in the eight years or so prior to 2017. It is this Government that are turning that around with fresh investment and more co-opera…”

“My hon. Friend makes an important point. I am glad that the Government have begun to address this shortfall. The investment of £2 billion into the East Midlands combined authority under Mayor Claire Ward specifically to be used for transport will go some way towards addressing that, but there is a lot more to do becaus…”

“I am pleased that my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley) has secured this debate about connections between London and rural towns by rail because many of the issues on which she touched apply to my own constituency in Derbyshire. This morning I was at Broomfield Hall college, an agricultural college w…”

“Ella, a nine-year-old girl who died in 2013, was the first person to have air pollution listed as a cause of death on her death certificate, which was a shocking moment. I looked into the situation in my county of Derbyshire and found that air pollution contributes to between 400 and 600 deaths a year, even though part…”

“I would like to tease out some more information, because it is an interesting point, although there are lots of points in what you have raised that we could explore further. We know that local authorities have a role under the Environment Act 1995, and one of the levers that the public would have is better information,…”

“I will take that one away. Thank you very much indeed. Ms Lockwood, I have seen some good initiatives locally in my constituency where there have been efforts to reduce the impact of poor air quality. For example, in the village of Duffield, there has been a safer school streets initiative. Sometimes these initiatives …”

“My worry is that these integrated care systems are going to be so big that it is very difficult to put your finger on specific hotspots, and they have been very busy dealing with, particularly, hospital care. When they talk about the wider determinants of people’s health, it is often smoking and drinking or lack of phy…”

“The hon. Member mentions the national insurance hike. I am disappointed about that, but would he be content to see public services—education, healthcare and public transport—continue to fail people? We needed that investment to get the country back on its feet.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. The east midlands has been a driver of Britain’s economic growth since at least the earliest days of the industrial revolution. Belper in my constituency was the world’s first factory town; it spun cotton for textiles at a previously unimaginable rate, and that…”

“I thank the Foreign Secretary for her wide-ranging statement, including the support she outlined to protect British nationals in the region and to ensure that humanitarian aid gets into Lebanon, and the efforts to ensure that British consumers with heating oil are protected from price rises. Over 1,500 properties in my…”

“It is certainly DCMS that would answer this. Unfortunately, the Minister for this specific issue is in the Lords, so you would probably get one of the other ones, but it is a great opportunity to talk about this all the same.”

“I declare my interest as someone who likes beer. I have signed this application, and I am also the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on UNESCO world heritage sites. I think that this has real legs, and that cask ale can get on to the new inventory that DCMS is aspiring to create. We noted that you requested a …”

“How will that come through? Will it be DEFRA that needs to bring that through?”

“I very much don’t know more about it than you.”

“To summarise, it is a good foundation, but it needs some more clarity about how it will be delivered.”