Speeches by Ellis.

“Last week, I visited Gisburn auction mart in my constituency, with my constituents John Alpe and Graham Young, where I heard the challenges that farms are currently facing with the rapidly dropping milk prices. Indeed, two farmers were there to sell up their farms entirely, while others are pushed into further intensif…”

“I am Maya Ellis, the MP for Ribble Valley.”

“Laura, you framed that in a compelling and simple but focused way, saying there is a floor and there are the staged approaches. You are absolutely right, Christa, that it cannot just be down to charities. I am interested to hear from the panel, or from you, Laura, what is missing from what the Government are currently …”

“To build on the point made by the hon. Member for East Londonderry (Mr Campbell), Girlguiding has found that two thirds of girls say they are put off exercising and going out because they fear some of the things we are describing. Given that we are debating potentially removing social media from young people, does my h…”

“It is really good to hear, Matt and Laura, some of those stories of best practice. I completely agree that we need to pull that out. We hosted a roundtable before Christmas, which I convened with families in temporary accommodation. What you all said at the beginning absolutely came through—that all these families star…”

“Finally, on behalf of one of my constituents, Maria Gee, who is very passionate about swift bricks as I know many others are, could you clarify where we are at on that policy and what Labour is doing to support swift bricks? Do you know roughly how many you expect to get in our new towns?”

“Do you have an ambition of where you would like that final percentage to fall? That is a minimum but is there an ideal of where you would expect—”

“Looking a bit more broadly now, the Government are obviously consulting on changes to planning policy intended to accelerate house building at the moment. Sir Michael, what impact do you feel the wider reforms will have on the delivery of new towns, and are there any further reforms you would like to see to accelerate …”

“Fair enough. Minister, the previous Government decided to have the minimum accessibility standard for 100% of new homes under the part M4(2). Can you explain why you have brought that down to 40%?”

“You are confident that is—”

“Maya Ellis, MP for Ribble Valley.”

“The hon. Gentleman raises a really important point. We have spoken about that issue with Ministers; is an important conversation that we absolutely have to have. Another of my farms belongs to a constituent who was one of the first to reach out to me and meet me in London. I have spoken about his farm in previous debat…”

“I completely agree. That is why it is disappointing that the Opposition are looking at certain details, when all the farmers that I speak to desperately want us to focus on the next stages of how we support those farms. We have done the thing that we needed to do to protect the smallest ones.”

“It is a delight to speak in this debate following what was possibly the best Christmas present that I have ever received: no shade to my parents or husband, but when we got the call from the Treasury on 23 December and heard about the raising of the threshold for agricultural property relief and business property relie…”

“Thank you, Chair and Committee, for listening to me today. I guess the driving force for this debate comes from the fact that we increasingly live in a very divisive society, and learning to disagree well is a skill that is less and less widespread. Nowhere do we need to practise to disagree well more than in our relat…”

“Brilliant. Thank you very much. Sir Iain Duncan Smith made representations.”

“We are very happy to adapt the title so that it encompasses that requirement.”

“The ideal would be to have the Minister for Women and Equalities; that would be great. However, I talked about a number of areas there. The Justice Department, regarding the issue of violence against women and girls, would be an option. In theory, it could be the Department for Business and Trade on parental leave, or …”

“I thank the Minister for how seriously she is taking this issue when, according to the latest analysis by the Dad Shift, 90% of paternity leave is claimed by fathers in the top half of earners, with almost a third of those being in London and the south-east. Anna Whitehouse and George Gabriel, who I will meet later tod…”

“7. What steps he is taking to help increase the uptake of paternity leave by low-income earners.”