Speeches by Collinge.

“I thank my hon. Friend for bringing attention to the persecution of people of different faiths and beliefs, and particularly the heinous murders of thousands of people. He knows about the case of Mubarak Bala, who was jailed for a Facebook post that was deemed to be blasphemous. After he left Islam, he was sent to a ps…”

“I cannot accept that it is okay for the Government to stay on X now, but I do welcome the strong action they are taking on online violence against women and girls. This is part of a wider problem of violent pornography that normalises and encourages violent sexual fantasies, so does the Secretary of State agree that Of…”

“I suspect that the hon. Gentleman missed the third paragraph of my speech, in which I talked about the asset-rich but cash-poor nature of farming. Land may be worth a lot of money according to most people’s standards, but it may not be possible to realise the value in cash terms unless the land is sold, especially for …”

“I will not. Our farmers have been battered by Brexit, with their incomes and standards of living falling drastically since 2016. Crop yields have been impacted by flooding, and trade deals agreed by the Conservatives sold them down the river. Those 14 years of Conservative government were just as bad for my farmers as …”

“As someone who represents a large semi-rural constituency, I am glad to have this opportunity to speak about the changes to agricultural and business property relief and why they matter for farming families and for fairness in our tax system. I welcome these changes, which recognise the reality of the asset-rich, but c…”

“My constituents very much welcome the changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief, which, as the Minister knows, I have raised repeatedly. The changes to the reliefs mean that family farms will be protected while large landowners who bought agricultural land simply to avoid paying tax will no l…”

“I thank the Foreign Secretary for her statement. We speak today from the heart of our democracy, where power transfers peacefully according to the will of the people. Does she agree that democracy is the right of all people, no matter where they live? Does she further agree that it is for Venezuelans to decide what the…”

“I was surprised to hear the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Weald of Kent (Katie Lam), say that our culture understands consent, bodily autonomy, misogyny and violence against women and girls, given that every day women experience violations of their bodies. I just do not think that that is true of our culture at …”

“Given that nuclear power stations have shutdowns in operation, as I know well from my local area, if we did go for nuclear-powered baseload, how much would we need to deliver that, given the predicted electrification?”

“Some of the political debate around this subject has saddened me, not least the way that trans people’s reality and experience has been denied. We even have evidence of British trans people from the 4th century—they have existed forever. Will the Secretary of State confirm that the trial is a real attempt to get a prop…”

“That was really interesting and very helpful. It sounds like there is no appetite in the nuclear industry to change the dose limits, if I have understood you correctly. Just for time, Chair, I want to skip on to something about the environmental impact of energy production and, in particular, land use and density of en…”

“As someone who represents nuclear workers and who lives next to two nuclear power stations, I am very interested in the safety of the nuclear industry as a whole. What was interesting to me from the regulatory review was the fact that radiation dose limits are stricter in nuclear energy settings than they are in nuclea…”

“That is really interesting. I want to move on to Fiona now and talk about design and replication. According to evidence we have, Sizewell C anticipates a saving of around 20% compared with Hinkley Point C, which they say demonstrates the value in replication of design. Do you think that trying to replicate design is a …”

“I am wanting to move on to things such as nuclear doses later, so I might park that for now. Different regulators look at different aspects. If regulation is streamlined or changed, how do you ensure that what those regulators care about, whether it is the environment, marine life or whatever, is still captured while m…”

“We have covered some of this, so feel free to be brief. Sam, the Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce said that the UK is the most expensive place in the world to build nuclear projects, as we have said. Why is this and what lessons can be learned from other countries?”

“I think that Doug wanted to come in on that and I also wanted to ask Sam a question about the Government’s plans for nuclear.”

“You are talking about distributed small storage capability. Could I ask if anyone else in the panel would like to come in on that question before I move on?”

“That is a slightly separate question from the one I am hoping to get at, which is a more technical one. Do we need things like nuclear or what gas-fired power stations currently provide? Is that a necessary part of the way our electricity system works?”

“I did. I am sorry, yes. I would like to hear that.”

“That is really interesting, because that goes against other evidence we have received, which is always very interesting. Can I dig in a bit more to that? In terms of stability of the grid, do different forms of electricity have different impacts on the way our wider system operates and our ability to get the energy whe…”