Speeches by Ryan.

“My final question is about the number of cases being cancelled at usually quite late stages, which was something like 32% between January 2023 and November 2024. What can you do to make sure that cases are not being cancelled when they go through?”

“As I say, without getting into the tit-for-tat, we have so many Departments that come here and tell us that and then the NAO says different. The NAO says that the long-term trends are not great. The NAO says that caseworkers do not have a collective understanding of how often this occurs. They do not collect the data a…”

“That is good to hear. If I were you guys and I had read that NAO Report paragraph, I would be frightened about the sort of operation I was running and the efficiency of that operation. The overarching point here, without getting too much into the politics, is one of fairness. We talked at the start about those children…”

“There has been quite a nice cross-party feeling to the debate tonight, and that has been encouraging. There has also been some mention of trailblazers. I realise this is probably a little bit embarrassing for those on our Front Bench, but the Minister who opened the debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda and Ogm…”

“Absolutely. I am so proud of my hon. Friend and everybody else who has contributed to the debate, whether LGBT or an ally. I stand here as an openly gay man, but allies have talked about films—“Pride” and things—that they have seen. It is important for us all to be here and to recognise Pride, and I thank my hon. Frien…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and I absolutely will. One of the first experiences I had as an MP was being approached by a constituent, Steven, whom I had not met during the election campaign, and who has now received compensation for his disgraceful treatment when he was a member of the armed forces. I…”

“I will start by answering the question that is so often asked, first under the breath, and then in the dark corners of the internet, and now, in some places, in the unfortunate mainstream: why do we have Pride? Why do we need Pride? The answer is that for far too many people, even in the Britain of 2025—one of the grea…”

“I will not give way. The principle of the social contract of the welfare state is at stake, and this Government are defending it.”

“The Minister may have seen my constituent Mollie Mulheron recently featured on “Newsnight”. Our local ICB recently refused her access to fertility treatment after recovery from an aggressive cancer with a high likelihood that her illness will return. Will the Minister meet me and Mollie to discuss that issue, and acces…”

“Let us say it straight: disabled people have been let down by 14 years of Tory Government. The number of disabled people in working households living in poverty doubled under the Tories’ watch, to 1.3 million people last year and the pay gap for disabled people is higher now at 13% than it was a decade ago. I will touc…”

“In 2017, this Committee looked at this issue of collecting the right amount tax from high net-worth individuals. It looked at specific examples in Australia and Japan, where high net worth individuals needed to provide information about their assets in their tax returns, which made it easier for them to assess, through…”

“Would you have done the non-dom tax status step-down?”

“It is already in.”

“There is a saying that the art of taxation is trying to pluck the goose for the greatest amount of feathers and the least amount of hissing. I am slightly worried about the non-dom policy risk. I know that this is probably also a question for the Ministers, and maybe for a later date, but, as tax bods, if you like, wou…”

“The OBR has already assumed that 12% to 25% leave. We know that, if 25% leave, the policy becomes a cost.”

“On another day I would love to ask you about trusts and entities, and what you think about some of this stuff and the legislation, but not today. We will move on to non-dom compliance and the non-dom regime, please. What impact do you expect the changes to the non-dom regime to have on your compliance work? What sorts …”

“I am never keen on people saying that the system is now set up and working. What is your ambition for improving that?”

“It is not necessarily done on wealth; it is done on the basis of risk. For example, when you allocate customer compliance managers, there is a reason why only half of them over a certain figure have these, because of the risk as opposed to the wealth.”

“I will move on. This is probably also to Philippa. You talk about the work that you do with wealthy individuals. There is the £2 million of assets or people earning £200,000 a year or more, but the headroom above that can be quite varied and huge. You do not segment your work in a way that corresponds with those wealth…”

“Is it a constant endeavour, as opposed to something that you can set a timescale to? I am cautious that, as I say, we have these strategic ambitions, which are all very noble and I agree with, but what is the deadline for achieving those?”