Speeches by Wrigley.

“I agree with my hon. Friend. I have spoken to a former employee of one of these private parking companies who was dismissed for whistleblowing. In my constituency of Newton Abbot, I have received numerous complaints about the behaviour of some private parking companies and the tactics they use, which include breaching …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I congratulate the hon. Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) on leading this debate, which has been a collaborative effort and is beautifully well attended. Many private parking companies aim to make their record-making profits from the demands they issue …”

“Absolutely—this is something that they should not have to put up with. Norma felt bullied into making the payment to avoid threats of escalation. Complaints go into a flawed process: appeals are simply denied, and the supposedly independent appeal system acts as little more than a tick box, with no real opportunity to …”

“Coming back to community hospitals, I came to this House to try to save Teignmouth community hospital, which has been under threat of closure because Torbay, its parent hospital, has such a massive maintenance backlog that it cannot afford to maintain both itself and Teignmouth hospital, so it is shutting down communit…”

“Will the Secretary of State give way?”

“Will the Secretary of State give way?”

“Will the Secretary of State give way?”

“I thank the Secretary of State. I have just been reading about his core reforms, and I note that, as he has said, core reform 3 changes the way in which the season for bathing is determined. However, it continues the principle that water is not tested by the Environment Agency throughout the year. This is an important …”

“In the town of Teignmouth in my constituency of Newton Abbot, FirstPort has been buying up other management companies, and the sinking funds—the contingency paid by residents—appear to have disappeared: they have been sunk. Does my hon. Friend agree that that should be looked into?”

“Does the Minister agree that we need to change the social contract for companies such that they no longer take all the benefits of limited liability and simply focus on shareholder value? Will he support my better business Bill—the Company Directors (Duties) Bill—which will have its Second Reading on 4 July, and meet m…”

“I fully agree. Absolutely—people do not know what they can do. Will the Minister investigate how widespread the use of NDAs is in the NHS? Given that it is probably in the Government’s power to ban it in the NHS without primary legislation, will he take steps immediately to have it stopped and seek what recompense is r…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley (Louise Haigh) on securing this important debate. We have heard from Members how widespread this issue is: we heard about the hospitality industry and the creative industries, we just heard about teach…”

“18. If she will make it her policy to allow holders of category B driving licences to drive community buses.”

“My constituency is fortunate to have both Dawlish community transport and Newton Abbot community transport. They provide vital services for many people who would otherwise be isolated and lonely but, like many other volunteer groups, they are finding it hard to recruit. Recruiting drivers for their minibus services is …”

“The issue with most such situations in the past has been not only a short period of time for councils to respond, which they typically have managed to do, but the prolonged period of radio silence once those responses have been sent to Government. Can the Minister assure us that the Government will respond quickly to t…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Hobhouse. I would be delighted to invite the Lib Dem leader of Somerset council to elaborate on the condition in which he found the council when he took over, if I thought that the hon. Member for Broxbourne wished to read it; I suspect he would not. I thank the Minist…”

“Yes, thank you, Chair. I am listening to what has been said already and reconsidering the questions that I have in front of me. It was intriguing to hear your discussion of “Hunger Games”, having come from 10 years in local government before this role. It is very much something we recognise. Coming back to the local go…”

“Specifically, this is about the operations of private parking operators. I think we have all heard from people in our constituencies who have received outrageous fines. Recently, there was a lot of fuss in the news about someone who received a fine of, I think, £100 for being five minutes late and getting a ticket. The…”

“Yes.”

“Some very interesting comments are coming through. I am an engineer by training and normally finance switches me off entirely. I understand more of what we are talking about here than I did about protein folding—or just a bit. You made some interesting comments, Mr Johnson. You talked about plenty of science but a lack…”