Speeches by Madders.

“Yes.”

“You just referred in your evidence to an issue that we picked up in the previous evidence session, the vagaries of local differences in terms of access to the markets. One of the questions I posited to the witnesses was where a UK would company go if it wanted to understand the framework at a local level, and what barr…”

“It is warm words with no real teeth; is that a fair description?”

“A question for you, Tom, on the upholding of international labour standards. Will this agreement be helpful in that?”

“If you were a UK company, who would you go to in order to understand that dynamic a bit better?”

“No, just more generally in terms of trade.”

“I have a broad question, not being a particular expert on the Indian constitution and the whys and wherefores: are there barriers or different levels of entry requirement that might be needed at a state level or even a local level that we still have to address?”

“One side of this debate is access to global talent. The other side of the debate, which has been raised by some members of the Institute of Directors, is that this could be seen as a way of undercutting UK-based workers. Do you see any risk of undercutting in terms of the costs? Do you see that as being a risk at all?”

“The double contributions convention and the mobility chapter were some of the parts that got the widest media coverage when this was announced. What do you see the effect of that being on movements of labour? Are there particular sectors that you think will be seeing more movement one way or the other? Can I have gener…”

“I am sorry; I am not going to take any more interventions. I think the pay-per-mile system is the right thing to do, although I do have concerns about the timing and how it will work in practice. I have to say, I did enjoy putting the question to Conservative Treasury Ministers when they were in government and never ge…”

“The hon. Gentleman must have seen my speech, because I am just about to talk about that issue. He is right that there are a number of unanswered questions. First, it is important to say that we do need to change to a pay-per-mile system for electric vehicles. The revenue we raise from fuel duty is clearly going to go d…”

“My hon. Friend is right to point out that the policy punished children for being born, which is not something any Labour Government should be part of. We hear that this decision may encourage people not to work, but we all know from the statistics that a majority of people in receipt of benefits are in some form of emp…”

“It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. As always with a Budget, there is far more to say than one can fit in a speech, but I just want to start by saying that the decision by the Chancellor to increase the headroom is not one that will garner many headlines or capture the public’s imagination, …”

“I am pleased to see that the Employment Rights Bill is coming back to us shortly. It has been eight and a half months since we first sent it to the other place, and the Lords keep blocking it. Now the Greens have joined the Tories and Lib Dems in blocking our manifesto commitment. I am worried that we will not get Roya…”

“That makes it sound like I have the solution. I attended some raids with the local police and other agencies over the summer. Lots of illegal stuff was obtained and closure orders were sought. Those shops are now open. It makes a bit of a mockery of it all, does it not? What do we need to do to deal with this on a perm…”

“There are some interesting recommendations in the Committee’s report on this subject. Businesses absolutely do need to prepare for direct attacks, but one of the things that we picked up pretty clearly from the JLR experience was that the support did not get through to those further down the supply chain. As you quite …”

“Can I just follow up on a totally different type of crime, which is cyber-crime? We published the economic security report yesterday, which highlights the real threats that this brings. The JLR incident is very fresh in people’s minds. One of the things that became quite apparent during the response to that was that th…”

“How effective is the threat of imprisonment as an enforcement tool?”

“We have had quite a lot of evidence from the Association of Convenience Stores and the British Retail Consortium about the costs that they are facing, particularly in terms of crime prevention and protecting their staff. Is there anything that the Department is planning to do to assist with that?”

“We probably have the same conversations, because hair and beauty salons in my constituency certainly talk about this as unfair competition. They also say, “This is affecting our ability to recruit the stylists of the future, because we are just not going to be able to hire people on apprenticeships like we used to”. Is…”