Speeches by Blake.

“Mr Johnson, would you like to make any remarks on the positive or negative impacts of house building on growth?”

“I thank the Minister for her answer on the work the Government are doing with businesses to support people dealing with the consequences of the gig economy and road safety. Will she join with me in my work to ensure that the area around Baker Street is safer for residents, and will she work with me and residents around…”

“Since I last raised in this Chamber the negative impact of short-term lets in my constituency, Central London Forward has brought out new research estimating that 17,000 properties in my constituency are lost to short-term lets. It believes that a significant proportion of those is the result of individual owners ownin…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton and Wanstead (Mr Bailey) for securing this important debate. I also thank our friends and colleagues from the London local government family who are here listening to the debate. Their tireless work, day in, day out, …”

“No. Let us come to the matter at hand. I would like to talk about temporary accommodation costs, special educational needs and the specific challenges of managing the visitor economy in the very centre of London.”

“I am delighted to celebrate the work that Westminster city council does on tackling the challenges we face as a visitor economy. I am not sure how much Kensington and Chelsea council would appreciate me joining my hon. Friend’s campaign, but I certainly will, because it is for the best for the very centre of London. La…”

“That metric of take-up?”

“Would you say that the legislation is determining the timescale of this? For something that could be transformative, notwithstanding we do not know quite how transformative, that could be, by my calculations, at least two years?”

“If there were more research, which you mentioned, on the impact and some of the measures around auto-enrolment, this Committee would be very pleased to read it. I want to come back to the process and the timing, if that is okay. Our understanding is that, in the first half of this year, the FCA plans to consult on the …”

“One idea out there is for auto-enrolment to advice appointments. Have you a position or any research on that?”

“Are there any others? It seems to me that there could be other metrics and modelling of the impact of advice.”

“Will some of those metrics be in the next stages of the review?”

“So you do not have a sense of scale. We have an understanding of how many people are not fully prepared, but do you have a sense of the scale of how much this situation could be holding us back, or of the potential benefits of growth from this review?”

“You have been trailing the advice guidance boundary review all morning, so I am pleased that we get a chance to dive in. We have also painted a complicated picture of how consumers are responding to the financial products currently available: only 57% of defined contribution pensioners are reading some of their stateme…”

“I listened carefully to your answer to the Minister’s question about what you would cut if this change were to be reversed. You have not been clear about whether you would reverse it, but I listened carefully to the answer, and what I heard you say—[Interruption.] I am so sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker. The shadow Ministe…”

“I will not give way. Jobs data is already publicly available that will enable everybody to analyse the impact of this policy, and there has been a detailed assessment of it by HMRC. I firmly believe that this amendment will not deliver on the objectives that our country needs.”

“Lords amendment 21 calls for a review of this policy. I will come to the practical reasons for my opposition to it shortly, but first I want to focus on the cause of the problem and the cause of today’s debate. The last Government presided over economic chaos, scaring businesses away from long-term investment. The last…”

“You talked about the financial crisis. The Chancellor has talked about the response and reaction to the financial crisis perhaps having gone too far. How would you see the response to the financial crisis, particularly in terms of the roles of the Prudential Regulation Authority?”

“Thank you very much, Professor Moloney. It is really good to have you here. We are hearing a lot this week about the balance between growth and regulation, and I would be really interested to hear from you about how you see the relationship between regulation and growth.”

“You highlighted that there was not enough resilience in the run-up to the financial crisis and the conflicts of interest around conduct and behaviour. Where do you think there is the scope in that case to encourage growth through the work of the PRA?”