Speeches by Byrne.

“I commend the Home Secretary for getting the balance absolutely right. I think that her announcement will be widely welcomed throughout our diverse community in Birmingham, because we know that our generosity of spirit is upheld by our rule of law and the kindness that we show is protected by the justice that we share.…”

“I rise to present this petition on behalf of the residents of Ward End ward in Birmingham. The petition calls on the city council to safeguard children and parents around Thornton and Sladefield schools, where I have undertaken school gate surgeries over the past month. Right now, children are at risk from dangerous dr…”

“I rise to present this petition on behalf of the residents of Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North. The petitioners declare that their constituency “should be considered for support from the Government’s forthcoming Plan for Neighbourhoods funding.” In particular, we hope that we can raise money from this fund for …”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You rightly expect the Executive to provide timely information to this House. On 13 August I wrote to the Secretaries of State for Defence, for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and for Business and Trade to ask for important information about the legality of F-35 …”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Widnes and Halewood (Derek Twigg) on securing this urgent question, and warmly welcome the Minister to his new role. This is an extraordinarily serious issue, and the Business and Trade Committee will soon table its recommendations on tackling economic harms such as this. Ma…”

“I rise to present this petition on behalf of the residents of Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North. The petition declares that my constituents believe that the UK should recognise Palestinian statehood. For too long now, we have witnessed the most unimaginable horror inflicted on the men, women and little children …”

“Thank you very much, Mr Speaker—”

“I congratulate the Minister on saving Britain’s real engineering from years of financial engineering which was not in the best interests of this country and was more in the interests of the self-enrichment of the people behind it. The question for us today, though, is what steps the Government will now take to ensure a…”

“Well, Chair, the Prime Minister did not rule that out, so I will take that as a win and quit while I am ahead.”

“But you could cut people’s taxes. If we taxed investment income in the way that we do work, and tweaked up capital gains tax so that it was fairer, there would be enough money to deal with the fiscal pressures that we have forecast and deliver a big, bold working-class tax cut, just as they delivered in Australia. Sure…”

“These are all important steps forward, but having reviewed everything you have announced, the Resolution Foundation said that the poorest half of households, by the time of the next election, will still be £200 poorer than they were last year. The question remains: over and above what you have announced, what else do y…”

“The challenge we have, though, is that the Bank of England now forecasts that wage growth is going to slow down, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that earnings for the bottom 40% are going to fall by £700 a year, the Office for Budget Responsibility says that real household disposable income is going to fall to almo…”

“You will be aware of some quite troubling forecasts from, for example, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which says that, in fact, having looked at all the measures that the Government had announced by the summer, the bottom 40% of households are not going to be better off in three years’ time and will actually be £1,200…”

“You said at the top of the meeting that your vision for three years’ time is “I want people to feel better off.” Just so we are absolutely clear, is your ambition that everybody in our society should feel better off in three years’ time, including the poorest 40% of households?”

“I rise to present a petition on behalf of residents of the Castle Bromwich ward in my constituency. It calls for Solihull metropolitan borough council to take action on the increasing number of parking violations in the area of Castle Bromwich infant and nursery school, where over the last 12 months parking practices h…”

“I welcome the measures to take out dark money from our politics, but they will mean nothing unless we move forward aggressively to ban cryptocurrency donations in British politics. They are used for money laundering and to disguise dark money. They have no role in British politics. Will the Minister confirm that the el…”

“The Business and Trade Committee’s inquiry on small business is still open for evidence from Members from across the House. On Tuesday, we took evidence from the chief executive of Ofgem, who made it perfectly clear that a complete collapse of regulation in the years after covid led to thousands of businesses across ou…”

“Fifty-one years ago, on 21 November 1974, two bombs exploded in the heart of Birmingham, at the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one lives were lost and 220 people were injured. Families were destroyed, futures were stolen, and scars were left that never healed. In those two pubs, the Provisional IRA mu…”

“My hon. Friend is exactly right. She speaks with such passion and eloquence about this issue. She knows as well as I do how deeply the families feel their pain. Since the exoneration of the Birmingham Six—the men who were tortured, framed and imprisoned—no one has been held to account for that failure. Since 1991, no n…”

“The thrust of what the hon. Gentleman says is right. I will come on to some reflections on that in just a moment. We know that there are documents that were not provided to the inquest. Key individuals involved have died, but there are allegations that at least two of those responsible are still alive and living free, …”