Speeches by Narayan.

“I will take a deeper look at the engagement the Committee has had with the platforms and try to make sure that, where there are deficiencies, we are very much focused on them. It is day two on the job for me and for the Secretary of State, but there is an underlying principle consistent across the changes, which is tha…”

“The primary thing I would say is that the companies have a very strict duty under the Act, especially around illegal harms, and Ofcom has extremely robust powers to take enforcement action against those companies that are not complying with their new duties and protecting users from harm. To give you a specific sense o…”

“It is an ongoing question. When I was a member of staff at the Labour party working on the Online Safety Bill a few years ago, this was a very material question. There were two things that struck me at the time, both of which are even more relevant now. First, there was a very material commitment, fiscally, to Ofcom’s …”

“Thank you for that question. The starting point for me is to recognise the sheer volume and intensity of challenge that a number of colleagues have experienced across the House when it comes to online experiences for politicians. On the question of Ofcom’s implementation of the Online Safety Act and its powers, I would…”

“The shadow Minister talks about trade-offs in public finances, growth and child poverty. In the period since 2015-16, there was zero progress on absolute poverty and zero progress on relative poverty—public finances ruined and growth flat. Does he not think that the central trade-off was between a Tory Government and a…”

“The Leader of the Opposition has appointed every member of Liz Truss’s Treasury team to her Front Bench, apart from those booted out by the public. Does my right hon. Friend agree that a party that has no fiscal strategy but to believe “In Liz We Truss” cannot be trusted on any of it?”

“14. What steps she is taking to help ensure that the transport system supports economic growth.”

“We have a proud community in St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan that is both growing and thriving thanks to the economic opportunity provided by the Bro Tathan enterprise zone. Will the Secretary of State work with Welsh colleagues to progress funding for a new railway station in St Athan to support that growth and prov…”

“Just this week, the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) put a singular burning injustice first: the plight of overseas billionaires who pay too much tax. Does the Deputy Prime Minister agree with the hon. Member’s priority, or does she agree with me that Reform UK doing sweetheart deals with the super-rich is a betr…”

“4. What steps he is taking to include the chemicals sector within the industrial strategy.”

“I very much welcome the Minister’s recognition of the chemicals sector’s contribution as a foundational sector and an anchor employer in constituencies such as mine; we have the Dow site there. What can we do to support the deeply integrated supply chains across the UK and Europe that the chemicals sector, and Dow in p…”

“Yes, absolutely. My hon. Friend speaks with a great deal of expertise on this and on the wider question of how we support people with care needs. She is exactly right. I would be interested in how we support a market in the advice context that goes all the way from what I think the guidance on the boundary of the advic…”

“It is a privilege to speak with you in the Chair, Mrs Hobhouse. It is a particular privilege to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham and Bletchley (Callum Anderson), who secured this debate and led it with expected expertise. I know that he brings a great deal of professional experience from his career prior…”

“My hon. Friend has given detailed and eloquent descriptions of the UK space sector, and Glasgow’s contribution in particular, but what will the provisions of the Bill do for the rest of us—including those in south Wales and across Wales—so that space is also felt in our communities?”

“The hon. Member talks of cutting one’s cloth. Perhaps he can tell the 14 million people employed by family businesses how he would cut the public services they rely on to fund the unfunded tax cuts he is talking about making.”

“I will start by doing what the Opposition failed to do, which is to recognise the particular contribution of family businesses. I think family businesses in the Vale of Glamorgan will be disappointed that the shadow Chancellor trotted out a generic business conversation, rather than honing in on what is special about f…”

“I notice that the motion is on family businesses, but 96% of them have either no employees or a very small number. They are unaffected, if not helped, by the doubling of the employment allowance. Only 4% of family businesses have claimed BPR; most are unaffected. Moreover, the shadow Chancellor cannot name a single pro…”

“I thank the hon. Member for her question; let me say something that I was going to come to later. In all my experience of business, the one thing I have learned is that businesses are nothing but collections of people. They are mums and dads who drive their kids to school. They are people who drive through the potholes…”

“Harold Wilson said: “The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” Today, we can add to that the Tory party. Will the Chief Secretary ditch that Tory past, seize the spirit of Wilson and bring the white heat of technology back to Britain’s shores, including an AI growth zone in the Vale of Glamorg…”

“Will the Minister give way?”