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“Yes, but I am still thinking about the larder.”

“—R&D spend, which, interestingly, has the same sorts of concepts, I suspect, we have been looking at trying to understand R&D spend across the whole Government. Do you think we have, collectively, sufficient data on R&D spending in general?”

“Clearly, your library is Dewey Decimal. You are categorised. You are put in a pigeonhole. You are put on a shelf. You are siloed. In a larder, you are not. Interesting. Thank you for that. Sorry. I will go back to—”

“That is obviously why. Yes.”

“May I ask two very brief questions?”

“That is interesting, thank you. It is nice to know that nothing changes. I spent many years building data warehouses out of relational database systems and trying to combine things to ask sensible questions, which is very much, “What is the question that you want to know?”, which is where you started. You have talked a…”

“Okay. I am interested in how you stop projects and stop teams. I am also interested in the effectiveness of R&D tax credits.”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“We have talked an awful lot about the business model of these platforms causing the behaviour we are trying to examine. I find it is always a good rule to follow the money. Mr Ahmed, you are the first person to talk about advertisers. I find it slightly strange that no one has yet identified the behaviour of the paymas…”

“I draw the House’s attention to my entry on the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. At Teignbridge district council, I oversaw the commencement of council house building for the first time in 30 years. Will the Secretary of State meet me and others to discuss what can be done to make it easier for other councils …”

“I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Talking of localism, district councils provided a useful amount of local accountability. How will the Minister ensure that local accountability continues when the regional identity may be different? May I also ask about the future of towns an…”

“My hon. Friend makes a good point. Accessible, step-free stations are vitally important across Devon.”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered railway services in the South West. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Allin-Khan. The south-west is hugely reliant on the mainline railway—it is an economic lifeline. As I am the MP for Newton Abbot, which includes Dawlish, Teignmouth and Kingsteignton—all …”

“The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. When I met Network Rail in the autumn, it said that the design team for the fifth and final phase of the work would be reassigned if the funding was not forthcoming soon. That would put the project back, and significant extra funds would be required to get it back up to speed. A …”

“My hon. Friend makes a very good point. It is even harder for those down in Cornwall than it is for those in Devon. Both of these significant impacts are examples of the historic lack of investment in the railways in the south-west. In the south-west, we can often feel like second-class travellers—watching our services…”

“I thank the Backbench Business Committee for giving me the opportunity to have this debate, and I thank colleagues from across the House for participating. We have heard some fairly clear messages, and I thank the Minister for responding to some of them. There is certainly some hope in some of the responses that have b…”

“I agree entirely that the impact of Old Oak Common is immense, and will not be just during the construction phase. The six or seven years of delays and cancellations at weekends and Christmases have been covered in this Chamber before, so I will not repeat the list of weeks and weeks of diversions to Euston and signifi…”

“The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: we need more services on all these lines to support our constituents. However, everything I have outlined will be interrupted by the creation of the HS2 link to Old Oak Common. High-speed rail is a welcome improvement to our nation’s infrastructure, but the implementation of that…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that valuable point. He is absolutely right that Wales has been seen off, in terms of funding.”

“Following the failures of the last Government on HS2, Old Oak Common might have made sense as a terminus to HS2 from the north. It is no longer that and now does not make any sense at all. A 14-platform station that duplicates connections from Paddington and Euston is neither wanted nor needed. We know that the trains …”