Speeches by Malthouse.

“But we will be coming back to public—”

“I was going to make exactly the same point. I think my hon. Friend the Member for East Wiltshire has fundamentally misunderstood what is happening. He referred to there being a discussion through the usual channels. What the hon. Member for Spen Valley has proposed is that we have that discussion now—she said informall…”

“I rise to speak to amendment (b) and to the other amendments tabled by the hon. Member for Bradford West. As we discussed in private, I am concerned that the promoter of the Bill, the hon. Member for Spen Valley, has been through an extensive period of trying to collate everybody’s recommendations for the Bill and reac…”

“I have a quick question for Marianna. We have talked about misinformation and disinformation, but is there a role to look at repetition and atmospherics? For example, if you look back at the 2011 riots, particularly on something like X, repeated exposure often to the same incident from different angles or perspectives …”

“I will just finish, if I may. Our Bill is built on a very different legal framework from Canada’s. Drawing legislative parallels between the two seems like a cul-de-sac, not least because, as the hon. Lady will know, the legal framework in Canada is dictated by the charter of rights and freedoms, effectively a constitu…”

“That is not what I am implying at all. In this instance, I think that resolution was the right thing to do. What I am saying is that the Bank of England’s first decision, on the Friday, was to go for an insolvency and only pay out 14% of the deposits. It was only after pressure was brought to bear on a supposedly indep…”

“I have no wish to detain the Committee, but I do have some questions about the particular process we are discussing, not least because, as I understand it, it was the first time that the Bank of England had used its resolution powers as they currently stand. What happened has wider implications that we need to think ab…”

“Given how Government finance works, the Secretary of State knows that he has, in effect, cancelled the replacement of Basingstoke and North Hampshire hospital. That is despite, as my right hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds) said, the now Prime Minister going there during the election campaign and …”

“The return of hostages and the end of daily massacres of civilians is profoundly to be welcomed. While the Foreign Secretary has attributed much of the work to diplomats, it is obvious that, whatever we think about him, the critical intervention, by all reports, has been that of President-elect Trump. Although he has i…”

“As I am sure you know, Mr Speaker, my constituency is the source of a number of globally significant chalk streams, not least and most famously the River Test. A number of Members were pressing the previous Government to bring forward a chalk stream recovery pack, to help get those rivers back to their best state of he…”

“I am fortunate to work with two local authorities, Basingstoke and Deane borough council and Test Valley borough council, which, after many decades of careful stewardship, are debt-free and have significant assets on their balance sheets, to the benefit of their residents. What will the Minister do in this local govern…”

“You effectively agree a split of what is going to come, if the thing either spins out or becomes licensed.”

“Define failure. Hence my question about metrics.”

“I understand. I have a couple of questions. Obviously, your template deal that you have agreed has a range of values. How likely is it that universities are effectively going to compete for finite amounts of investment money by varying the equity splits? Dundee might say, “Well, we’ll take only 10%,” whereas Oxford mig…”

“At that stage, you are shifting the negotiation up the value chain. You agree to some form of dilution at that stage.”

“I don’t think they are necessarily failing; they are doing broadly what they were set up to do, which is to funnel Government subsidy to business. I just find it rather an expensive way to do it.”

“We visited the digital catapult here in London, and I have to tell you it was a pretty shocking visit from my point of view: a glittery office, completely empty, obviously costing an absolute fortune, and they asked us for more money. It struck me then that they in particular were, effectively, a very expensive way of …”

“Forgive me if I slightly play catch-up on what you have explained, Professor. You covered a lot of areas. You have agreed effectively a kind of template equity split for, basically, the incubation of early-stage companies. That is basically for people who are incubating an idea to continue to use your facilities and re…”

“No, it is my own view.”

“It does.”