Speeches by Taylor.

“Absolutely, and I will come on to the package that the Government outlined last week. It was very welcome, but we need to go further on immediate measures. More than 12 million households are struggling with high energy bills today. It is not just the cold, but what creeps in with it: the damp and mould in children’s l…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered Government support for consumer energy bills. It is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairship for the first time, Ms Jardine. This morning, hon. Members may have caught the same package on the breakfast news as I did. It followed Ukrainians on the outskirts of Kyiv…”

“The hon. Member highlights the gap between families who are eligible for support and those who just cannot quite make ends meet. Clearly, there is a challenge in making any measure completely comprehensive and ensuring that those in need get the support they require. When Beveridge wrote of his five great evils all tho…”

“Residents in Sutton and Cheam are seeing the very real impact of the cost of living crisis. It may sound like a cliché, but they are seeing the impact on their energy bills, their rent and particularly their food and grocery prices. Staples such as eggs, milk and butter have increased exponentially, as has the price of…”

“When we see the investment going in, the tracks being laid and the services turning up to stations, I think we will agree that that is a win for any Government. For too long, we have seen empty promises that have not been funded and have not arrived, so perhaps we should all pause our congratulations and backslapping u…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I thank the right hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Wendy Morton) for securing this important debate. Transport links are essential to our economy, tourism, trade and everyday life, but all too often they have been neglected. Up and down the country, people…”

“I warmly welcome this plan and the ambition that the Government are showing, and I will try to dispel some of the official Opposition’s misconceptions. I am sure we have all been out knocking on doors in our constituency. When I was doing so in Worcester Park last week, a lady came to the door in a big jacket, and I mo…”

“Hongkongers and other Chinese dissidents in the UK will be rightly concerned about this news. I want to make it completely clear that the Liberal Democrats have serious concerns that this project will enhance China’s ability to conduct transnational repression against Britons and Hongkongers on British soil. What is th…”

“Diplomacy relies on rational actors, yet even in the last fortnight we have seen Donald Trump declare that he is not bound by international law, only by his “own morality”. He has deployed paramilitary forces against his own people, and he speaks of cancelling elections. How apt! We have also seen the unilateral kidnap…”

“The Liberal Democrats have made it clear from the beginning of this saga that the approval of China’s super-embassy would be a terrible betrayal of Hongkongers who moved to the UK to escape the very repression that the Government are now inviting to their doorstep. The Government must halt the application and summon th…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Alicia Kearns) for submitting her application, and Mr Speaker for granting another urgent question on this issue. Although we are not yet happy with the answers, we have at least been given repeated chances to scrutinise the issue as it has progressed. I am here on beha…”

“I thank the Minister for what is a clear Lib Dem win. I repeat the question from my Front-Bench colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Surrey Heath (Dr Pinkerton), on the need for a transparent assessment of the potential economic growth benefits of a customs deal. In three years, we will all be seeking a new mandate…”

“That was a very good answer. I enjoyed that. Just to loop back on the previous section—I thought I understood this, because I did my homework—we had five legacy missions, as they were, from the manifesto from back in the day. We then had an extra one, which was the foundations, and those gave us national security, secu…”

“That sounds like all of it.”

“Can you give us an explanation for how that came to be?”

“I go through that process with my own accounting units on a regular basis. Again, it does not feel like there is really a value for money bit of work being done. Given the complexity and the ongoing cost of the digital ID scheme—I understand the policy aim of digitising the right-to-work question and that it is aimed t…”

“Is this the boiling frogs?”

“To go back to the previous question in a bit more detail, the suggestion seemed to be that cost was not really a factor or a decision in whether to go forward. It does not seem that there is much of a cost-benefit analysis of whether to proceed. Is that the case?”

“That is fairly straightforward.”

“It is implementation versus co-ordination and the strategy of such. As a follow-up, this does not signal digital capability moving back to the Cabinet Office more broadly; this is more about a delivery mechanism for the technology.”