Speeches by McEvoy.

“I will—and I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. It is my great honour to open this debate on online safety for our children. I welcome the Minister answering for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and the shadow Minister, the hon. Me…”

“I absolutely agree that the companies must take those responsibilities seriously, because that will be the law. I am keen that we, as legislators, make sure that the law is as tight as it possibly can be to protect as many children as possible. We will never be able to eradicate everything online, and this is not about…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for raising that great threat. My area of expertise on the issue is children’s and service users’ voices. There is definitely space for Ofcom and the Government to try to regulate the illegal manufacturing of images through AI. When I asked children in my constituency whether they had ever seen s…”

“It is indeed prolific, for all our children—the whole generation. It is interesting that, among the different experts I have spoken to, there is consensus; the argument has been won that children are unsafe online and that is affecting them deeply, across the country. It is our job—it falls to legislators—to rectify th…”

“A smartphone-free pledge is a great idea, and I will take it to Darlington. Parents are further down the line than we are on this; children are further down the line than we are; campaign groups are further down the line than we are. We are lagging behind. We have taken action—the last Government passed the Online Safe…”

“I am loath to tell Ofcom that it does not have enough power. As I understand it, the powers are there, but we need to be explicit, and they need to be strengthened. How do we do that? The reason I outlined the timelines is that the time to act is now. We have to explicitly strengthen the children’s codes. There are man…”

“Okay, I will make progress. On the live location element, which I have discussed, I am not sure that there is any advantage in children using that, unless it is a specifically regulated live location app where the parents have given consent for their child. I do not know whether chatting to strangers on games is suitab…”

“I rise to speak on this issue because my views have evolved, as we are all on a journey. It is because I am a woman and a feminist that I care so deeply about supporting men and boys. As a woman, I care about women’s rights, and I have raised, and will continue to raise, the voices of women who are mistreated. That doe…”

“I just want to pay tribute to my hon. Friend for raising this matter and to my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Sam Rushworth) for securing this debate, and to say on record that I, and I am sure the rest of the House, think they are both amazing role models for young men watching this debate.”

“Can I add a follow-up question on that? In 2018, the FCA said that 33% of consumers who had drawn out their pensions early as part of the previous Government’s policy were leaving them as cash and not investing them at all. Do you think that was a potential missed opportunity for growth in the economy? Do you think the…”

“It is interesting that you mentioned the mental health element because there has been quite a lot of work on that separately. Essentially, there are quite a lot of differences in the mental health statistics. Again, it comes back to the data and the story that we can get from the data. Some of the mental health statist…”

“There are myriad different issues that are contributing to our lag of covid bounce-back. It might be gold-plated pensions for the very lucky few, but it is more likely that the low-wage economy in certain areas combined with ill health outcomes and additional care responsibilities means that we are seeing a problem. In…”

“Before we move off this topic, Dr Mann, for the less educated in economic policy, could you just explain a bit more about your sales surprise approach and what that actually means? Can you elaborate more on the productivity aspect of that one?”

“Yes, you will forgive us because it feels like quite an expensive quirk annually. I know it is not, as you have explained.”

“Can I bring in Professor Taylor? Wearing your hat as an economic history guru, could you tell us whether there are any examples of a differing approach having a beneficial outcome for an economy?”

“I have another question to probe a bit further on the global impact, the other approaches that big central banks globally have taken, and any potential economic advantages to those economies because of their different approach. Has there been any work done on that or do you have any thoughts about it? I know it is not …”

“I had a question about stocks and shares ISAs and the use of them. In the Mansion House speech, the Lord Mayor talked about the lack of use of stocks and shares ISAs in the UK. I wondered what your expert opinion would be on the potential impact of growth if there was more use of stocks and shares ISAs.”

“To pick up on that point, and then I will let somebody else talk, you said it is too soon to talk about the current reduction in the rate. When would you anticipate mortgage rates to be more reflective of that?”

“I suppose that is what I was getting at.”

“You are confident that the lower-pay representation from the agents is not focused solely on the hospitality and retail sectors.”