Speeches by Heylings.

“It is so good to hear the Minister affirm the need to bring the public onside, as well as private sector investment, to achieve the transformation towards green power and net zero. The Liberal Democrats support Great British Energy if community energy is at the centre of the Great British Energy Bill. Our colleagues in…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that it is unjustifiable to continue the sale of arms to Israel, especially now that there are concerns about its compliance with international humanitarian standards? The United Nations Relief and Works Agency cannot deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza because of the aggression of the Isra…”

“I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. The Carers Trust has provided us with these stories and pointed out that we really need to collect this evidence. It would be easy to point the finger at local councils and say that this is their failure, but, as we have said, they are stretched to their limits by a chronic l…”

“I agree with the hon. Member. My constituency of South Cambridgeshire also has among the lowest per-pupil funding, which exacerbates the fact that, even though we have EHCPs, most of them are not funded to the amount that is required for each of those students. That compounds the situation that our amazing schools are …”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to address this critical issue that affects so many families and carers, not just in my constituency but across the country. I rise to speak up for all those who feel they are not being heard and to speak about the crisis in the provision of special educational needs and disability sup…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for raising one of the complex issues around this provision. While we support the current Government’s additional allocation of funding to this critical area, we really want them to look at the fact that it is not just about mainstream provision; it is also about specialist provision. As she says…”

“Absolutely; I am here to pay tribute, as is everybody, to what teachers are doing, both with regard to the failure of the previous Government and with the current situation. Let us get to what is happening with the current Government. Every child deserves access to education to get the best start in life and build a st…”

“I could not concur more. Over the past decade or more, we saw chronic under-investment from the Conservative Government, despite the needs having been recognised in statute, and that has left us in this pressure point situation. We are now seeing the results of that. I have also been told that this is a time bomb, beca…”

“I will come on to what I think is a postcode lottery. We see regional disparities in the care and provision given, so I thank the hon. Member for raising that point. For many, the wait to get assessments for education, health and care plans can be months, if not years. Lord Darzi’s investigation of the NHS in England n…”

“We heard from a previous speaker, Mr Gray, that perhaps this is work that could be done in Cambridge, at BAS. Would you like the chance to say whether some of this needs to be done in situ?”

“A declaration: I did a little bit of work supporting the Blue Belt Programme in a prior life before becoming an MP. Just on that, however, we have not talked about marine protected areas. I did put a question earlier to Dame Jane Francis, and perhaps Jane Rumble can mention them now. Do we have sufficient research to b…”

“Picking up on the issue of increased vulnerability of species, biosecurity is one aspect. The other is the role of marine protected areas. Would you say that we have sufficient research to establish the marine protected areas necessary now to give that greater resilience, not just from avian flu but from all the other …”

“We heard from a previous speaker, Mr Gray, that perhaps this is work that could be done in Cambridge, at BAS. Would you like the chance to say whether some of this needs to be done in situ?”

“A declaration: I did a little bit of work supporting the Blue Belt Programme in a prior life before becoming an MP. Just on that, however, we have not talked about marine protected areas. I did put a question earlier to Dame Jane Francis, and perhaps Jane Rumble can mention them now. Do we have sufficient research to b…”

“Picking up on the issue of increased vulnerability of species, biosecurity is one aspect. The other is the role of marine protected areas. Would you say that we have sufficient research to establish the marine protected areas necessary now to give that greater resilience, not just from avian flu but from all the other …”

“We heard from a previous speaker, Mr Gray, that perhaps this is work that could be done in Cambridge, at BAS. Would you like the chance to say whether some of this needs to be done in situ?”

“A declaration: I did a little bit of work supporting the Blue Belt Programme in a prior life before becoming an MP. Just on that, however, we have not talked about marine protected areas. I did put a question earlier to Dame Jane Francis, and perhaps Jane Rumble can mention them now. Do we have sufficient research to b…”

“Picking up on the issue of increased vulnerability of species, biosecurity is one aspect. The other is the role of marine protected areas. Would you say that we have sufficient research to establish the marine protected areas necessary now to give that greater resilience, not just from avian flu but from all the other …”

“May I ask one more question about scale? We have talked about BNG, but there is also the LNRS, the Local Nature Recovery Schemes. Would you suggest that those also come into greater statutory significance because they provide a longer-term framework for beyond just smaller BNG scale but for what your landowners, perhap…”

“Can I come in around that point? So did you have evidence about the kinds of timescales that it would take to be able to show real benefit to ecosystems, and therefore what kind of timescale landowners would need to commit their land to? I will follow up on the kind of impacts and implications of changes to the agricul…”