Speeches by Turner.

“Emma, coming back to your point—starting with you, and then the other witnesses may want to come in, although I am conscious that time is getting tight—you talked about local authority responses. How high do you think public awareness levels are about complaints processes through local authorities and utility companies…”

“Does anyone else want to come in briefly on that point?”

“Presumably, there is damage to vehicles. Is that a problem as well?”

“Thank you. That figure is really striking. Please send through any supplementary information. We will come back to local authority responses but let’s keep on surface quality for the moment.”

“Birmingham has a large and growing community of people from Hong Kong. Although most are now well settled in the wider community, some of my constituents are fearful about continued monitoring and surveillance, especially if they speak out on human rights. Will the Minister give me and my constituents an assurance that…”

“I thank the members of the Backbench Business Committee and the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for granting and leading the debate. Three years ago, we watched as missiles rained down on Ukraine from Kharkiv to Lviv, damaging even the Holocaust memorial at Babyn Yar. Anyone w…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for giving us the opportunity to talk about our local non-league football clubs, such as Northfield Town FC and Alvechurch FC; I pay tribute to them for their community work. Does he agree that many clubs face a challenge in finding funding to bring on more women’s and girls’ teams, and to invest…”

“Picking up on that last point, Ministers have said that they intend to include a measure on socially necessary bus services in the forthcoming Bill. How do you think socially necessary should be defined? I would also be interested if the witnesses have a view on who should make the decision under the forthcoming legisl…”

“My hon. Friend makes a sensible point, and the issues that he raises are reflected in my constituency. That is one of the major barriers to getting jobs and spending into our high streets. If the Budget last year had failed to raise money for investment in public services, it would have been like changing the colour of…”

“As the Minister knows, the Nationwide Caterers Association, which represents small independents and family-run street food businesses, is based in Kings Norton in my constituency. I thank him for the recent positive meeting we held. Does he not agree that one of the previous problems it faced was that, under the previo…”

“Will the hon. Member acknowledge that what the Bill actually says is that no one should be forced on to a zero-hours contract? It is not the case that someone who wants that flexibility will be denied it.”

“My hon. Friend makes his point as well as it could be made, and I thank him for his intervention. Let us not forget the costs that the previous Government inflicted upon businesses. Their botched EU withdrawal policies have meant up to £7.5 billion in costs from customs checks alone according to HMRC, £1 billion from h…”

“One of the pleasures of the Committee is that we have 970 pages of transcript where those matters were discussed at length, and the Government are indeed bringing forward further impact assessments on those points. Looking at my constituency and, indeed, the constituencies of all Members of the House, the economic reco…”

“I draw attention to my declarations in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. It is a pleasure to follow my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Bradley Thomas). I will just say that the clean heat market mechanism that he spoke about, which is causing concern to a business in his constituency…”

“My hon. Friend is making a characteristically powerful case. Do the history books not show that Labour has always been the party of the pints? Harold Wilson expressed enthusiastic support for preserving the pint measure. Labour is the party of the pints, while the Conservatives do not serve anything more than small bit…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the other major challenges that small food businesses face is importing and exporting ingredients? That needs to be a focus for the review of the trade and co-operation agreement next year.”

“I understand the point the hon. Gentleman is making, but is it not the case that in that specific circumstance, after a week, they would be covered by the new probationary period provision? This provision is writing probationary period into the law for the first time.”

“To refine the question a bit, do you think it is possible to define socially necessary in the legislation itself, or do you think we are going to be left with a similar situation today? Perhaps we will have guidance, but it will not be defined in primary or secondary legislation.”

“The Government said that they intend to repeal the ban in the 2017 Act on local authorities creating new companies for the purpose of providing bus services. Do you think that lifting the ban on new municipal operators will have an impact in non-metropolitan areas?”

“Let me start by drawing attention to my declarations in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests in respect of the GMB defence manufacturing trade union. I welcome the Prime Minister’s commitment to rebuilding the UK’s industrial capacity in defence. All Governments face a balance between international collaboratio…”