Speeches by Newbury.

“I thank the Minister for her words, but I would add one point to her list, if I may, which is aftercare for people who have travelled abroad to have surgery. I understand that that is a tricky issue for the NHS, but we have heard consistently from several hon. Members today that their constituents have been rejected fo…”

“I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. The exhaustion and exasperation that she refers to occurs, as we have heard from other hon. Members, time and time again. I agree that the work being done on rare diseases is incredibly important, and at the end of my speech I will come to how I hope that we can build on that…”

“I could not agree more with my right hon. Friend. He mentioned a key word in this debate—“hope”, which is something that so many people with the conditions do not have at the moment. That is what we absolutely need to give them. I share his hope that there is a way forward, but we need to make sure that this group of p…”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to briefly wind up; the fact that it must be brief shows the incredibly rich, emotive and deep debate we have had. Obviously, I will not be able to go through everybody’s contributions, but I thank all hon. Members who contributed. They raised the hugely complex issues that people with…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered outcomes for patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and craniocervical instability. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furness. Before I start my speech, I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting us the time for this debate. I also thank Members fr…”

“I completely agree with my hon. Friend. In this country, we are incredibly proud of our NHS and the care that it can give people who have very common or very rare conditions. However, as I will set out further, and as he has just said, so many people with these two conditions feel very unseen, and we absolutely need to…”

“One thing that we have come across consistently is that a huge amount of research has been done internationally and, as many hon. Members have outlined, constituents are funding themselves to go abroad for treatment and surgery. As part of that work with the NIHR, would the Minister be willing to look at international …”

“In recent weeks, I have heard from many fathers in my constituency concerned about the attitude they have encountered from the Child Maintenance Service and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, including assumptions that they are trying to shirk payments, absence of support when ex-partners cut o…”

“I give way to my hon. Friend.”

“In some cases, sadly, it has been the National Trust doing that, and as a long-time National Trust member, I feel that is a real shame. We need to redress this imbalance because landscape recovery takes such a broad view that it should encompass all the people who are involved in that land as well.”

“To move on to natural capital markets, we know that more announcements are due soon; will that include an assessment of whether the action that the Department is taking will close this huge gap we have in green finance investment, which is currently estimated to be in the tens of billions?”

“As we know, environmental land management schemes and private finance are the two main vehicles that the Government can use to achieve their ambitious environmental targets. Opportunities to apply to take part in ELMS are currently very limited, particularly countryside stewardship and landscape recovery: that sort of …”

“On that point, one of the things that the land use framework talks about is blending public and private finance across Government, not just DEFRA. We know that can be particularly complicated. Are you clear on how that will be achieved in reality, and trying to lift that complexity burden that we have talked about?”

“I appreciate that SFI is hopefully going to become more accessible and simplified, but I feel the barrier to entry for those higher tier schemes is still really high. Does the fact that it does not appear to be accessible for a small farmer, for example, not concern you?”

“Just to press on landscape recovery, we spoke to Baroness Batters when she published her Farming Profitability Review, and one of the concerns that she has raised is that big landowners, both private and charitable, are hoovering up the vast majority of landscape recovery money. In some parts of the country we have see…”

“The Environmental Audit Committee recently heard that ancient woodlands protect more biodiversity than pretty much any other landscape in the country. Looking through the lens of trying to get as much value for nature as possible, has DEFRA looked at the cost per hectare of PAWS work versus planting new woodland? The r…”

“It does and it does not because Cannock Chase is the smallest national landscape in the country. We have some really rich, diverse habitats, which we as a Committee saw last week. I hope that if we are looking at certain habitats in the round, some of those benefits can come to our part of the world, even though we are…”

“I just have a few questions that are a little more specific to constituencies such as mine. We know that the laws around protected sites are very complex and overlap a lot. For example, one piece of land can be covered by as many as five different designations. We also know that we are really far from where we need to …”

“In the interest of time, I will not. Although I respect the concerns that have led many to sign the petition, I urge colleagues to reflect on the consequences of the course of action it proposes. Cancelling research does not resolve uncertainty, but entrenches it. In doing so, it risks leaving vulnerable young people w…”

“It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Mundell. At the outset, I want to acknowledge the strength of feeling on all sides of this debate, and our responsibility in this House to provide clarity that is grounded in evidence and centred on the wellbeing of the young people we are talking about. The petition calls f…”