Speeches by Kane.

“Changes to funding formulas can throw up huge anomalies. The Minister is well aware that Trafford council, which covers part of my constituency, is one of those anomalies. Will she commit to work with my Trafford parliamentary colleagues, Trafford council and me to see if we can iron out some of those issues?”

“When we talk about additional security funding, councils are responsible for community cohesion. We did see wanton violence in Ballymena. You also mentioned the far right, which I suffer from in my white working-class constituency. Social media and domestic violence are issues right across the board in the UK. Is the A…”

“Thank you. Is it focused enough? As you said, are the finances driving the change? You have seen community policing completely ripped away in Northern Ireland, as I have in my city, as it happens. I really miss it. Is the additional security funding focused enough?”

“If we are going for that normalisation approach, that might be—”

“I suppose it is a measure of the progress that has been made that we have talked about policing issues, possibly except for the question of community recruitment, but I come from a city that had a terrorist attack on a synagogue a couple of weeks ago. In 2017, we saw 22 lives lost and 250 injured with the Manchester Ar…”

“For the record, I am not against the PSNI being well funded.”

“That was No. 5.”

“There will be 18 of them.”

“We know that this was a brutal, murderous conflict, but, as we are reminded today, it was internecine as well at times. “There’ll be days like this”, in the words of one of Northern Ireland’s famous sons, but does the Secretary of State agree that, even on days like this, we should continue to keep victims and families…”

“When we talk about emotive subjects such as this one, it is important that we establish the facts. The hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe) recently railed on social media against illegal migrants coming to his constituency. They happened to be canoeists traversing the Atlantic and fundraising for motor neurone…”

“T3. The Government’s new youth investment fund is supporting the charity Nacro in my constituency to build a youth hub in Wythenshawe park. The Minister knows my constituency well, so I am sure he will agree that this project shows that we have an Administration who are serious about investing in our nation’s young peo…”

“That is a very good answer. In terms of space, we need sovereign space capability in the United Kingdom. There is a big Glasgow cluster. We can launch from the north. Most of Europe is landlocked. It seems like a huge opportunity for the advanced manufacturing sector in Northern Ireland, as well as the decarbonisation …”

“We are looking now at economic growth strategies. We had a presentation in private before around the UK industrial strategy, but Northern Ireland is not mentioned. I am trying to get to the bottom of the politics of that. In my previous role, I had a great relationship with Dr Iain Percy in Artemis Technologies. Those …”

“But we are for sweating that asset.”

“If it cannot be done by Ulster University, as the Royal Irish Academy has said in both 2021 and 2024, do we need another sector there? Do we need another independent higher education sector to drive growth in the city?”

“No competitions would be a good thing, you think.”

“I suppose that, in terms of good strategy, it is turning what you have into what you need to get what you want. You are saying that you are making progress on the journey, but it still feels maybe that it is an underleveraged asset in the north-west, particularly if you can sweat that asset in terms of the port, the ai…”

“Thank you, Vice-Chancellor; it is lovely to meet you. On that basis that regional growth drives innovation, investment and business, the British and Irish Governments signed the deal in 2020 around the Magee campus for the equivalent of 10,000 full-time students. I was wondering how that journey of driving innovation, …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington South (Sarah Hall) for this important and timely debate. For my constituents in Wythenshawe and Sale East, flooding is a growing concern, severely affecting local communities on both sides of the river. On n…”

“The hon. Member is making a very impressive speech. Cultural institutions are also important for our high streets. I note that it is the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, who lived in Chawton House in Alton in his constituency. Hopefully that will help to regenerate his high street as well.”