Speeches by Gilmour.

“Do not tar us all with the same brush.”

“As a Liberal, I am very supportive of restorative justice, but I just want you both to absolutely clarify this point. You can both absolutely say, hand on heart, that there is no correlation between the very poor performance of the Probation Service and the number of people reoffending and/or being recalled to prison. …”

“I will remember to tell my constituents that when they have been mugged for the third time by a reoffender.”

“It is very expensive, I would imagine.”

“You do not agree with your own internal review.”

“Could you replace the word “open” with “desperate”?”

“But it is desperate, is it not?”

“Funnily enough, I was sitting on a board this afternoon talking about digitalisation and the changes that it could make, so it is particularly pertinent to my brain at the moment. As a follow-up question, my constituency is Tiverton and Minehead. I have a higher than normal elderly population and a higher than normal d…”

“I am really trying not to be hypercritical here, but, if you do not trust your own internal reviews and you do not accept it as fact, how can we as a Committee—God help the general public—accept that what you are doing is going to be okay and making things better?”

“I will speak in favour of new clause 38, which I tabled. It seeks to introduce measures to prevent developers from using their own surveyors who have a vested interest in downgrading agricultural land in order to secure planning permission—particularly for solar farms—to build all over our countryside, taking farmers’ …”

“Did the hon. Gentleman bring any with him?”

“I thank the hon. Member for Calder Valley (Josh Fenton-Glynn) for securing the debate, and not least for mentioning one of the many shocking things about Hinkley C in my constituency. My Tiverton and Minehead constituency is home to some truly remarkable specialist manufacturers whose contributions extend far beyond ou…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“It is not just my opinion that Tiverton and Minehead is the most beautiful constituency in the country. It contains Exmoor national park, the Brendon hills, the Blackdown hills and the Quantock hills, all of which are areas of outstanding natural beauty. These are criminals who effectively run corporations that decimat…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that the challenges faced by those living with Parkinson’s are far from isolated, and that across neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, ME or chronic fatigue syndrome, there are calls for a joined-up neuro-optimal care pathway? A coherent national strategy is what is…”

“T2. Under the previous Government, farms were encouraged to diversify to secure their incomes and support rural communities. In the light of this Government’s reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief, many family farms that diversified now face what feels like double taxation—once during bus…”

“I welcome the Government’s decision, which I think is long overdue. I thank Clare Moody, the PCC for Somerset, who has worked very hard with me over the last 18 months and has visited my constituency three times. She is an inspiration. May I seek some reassurance on behalf of my constituents that extra resources will b…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. In my constituency, I recently held a roundtable discussions on the state of special educational needs and disabilities education—which we know is dire. Does my hon. Friend share my belief that we should be promoting opportunities in employment for autistic peo…”

“The answer to that question is the Chartered Management Institute.”

“As the Member of Parliament for Tiverton and Minehead—Minehead being one of the most deprived areas in the country, standing 324th out of 324 in the social mobility index—I wholeheartedly commend what the Secretary of State has announced. However, I have grave concerns about the state of the schools in my constituency,…”