Speeches by Taylor.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship once again, Ms Jardine. I welcome the clause. In the area where I live in Warwickshire, public transport is woeful, which means that children and young people are left behind because they cannot access school and college facilities. It also means that people are reluctant …”

“Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”

“The shadow Minister is making important points about how we consult the public, but we heard clearly from him this morning that that was the role of local councillors. I refer him to new section 12I to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, which provides that any spatial development strategy must be examined b…”

“Q2. Thousands of British jobs have been safeguarded by this Government’s trade agreement with the US, including for those in my constituency who work for Jaguar Land Rover, like my next-door neighbour Ollie—proving that when Labour negotiates, workers win. Can the Prime Minister confirm that he will continue to stand u…”

“This really is a semantic point about language. I fully appreciate that there is a massive difference between notification and consultation, but new section 12H(5) is very clear that that notification is also required to contain an invitation to the relevant person to make representations. Surely an invitation to someb…”

“When the Committee met the witnesses a week or so ago, we touched on section 106 agreements and the role of planning authority lawyers in that process. I think that the fees for processing and determining applications include the process for agreeing a section 106 agreement. Is it the Government’s intention to include …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Ms Jardine. I strongly support the clause and was really glad to see that the Electric Vehicle Association England welcomes the change. It will make it easier, cheaper and faster to install public chargers for EVs. There is a battery assembly plant run b…”

“I acted for developers before coming into the House, and I know their biggest concern was always delays, not the fees that the local authority charged for doing these things. As a result of the lack of capacity in local authorities, there has been a move to more unadopted roads on small estates, which has its own probl…”

“Does the Minister agree that very often the controversial decisions that go to planning committees and are declined by them, leading to an appeal, result in higher council tax for residents, because of the huge cost of appeals, reviews and so on? A national scheme of delegation, where it is clear which decisions can be…”

“Amendment 152 is well intentioned and sets out a number of matters that planning authorities should take into account when organising training. There are also other aspects of the planning process to consider, including how we make better provision for electric vehicles. The last major piece of planning legislation fro…”

“My constituents are sick and tired of broken promises on immigration. Five Conservative Prime Ministers promised to cut arrivals while deliberately letting numbers reach record highs. Can the Secretary of State confirm to the people of North Warwickshire and Bedworth that the broken promises are over, and that when thi…”

“Thank you. Devie, do you have anything to add?”

“We have covered some of the ground that I was going to touch on, but I want to take you back to this issue around failure. Something that we looked at when we spoke to female entrepreneurs in Birmingham was that, on the statistics, far more of the businesses that fail are male run than female run. Which leads me on to …”

“Roni, a lot of your initial growth was bootstrapping and the debt route, which is the traditional route, particularly for those of us who are involved in property. But did you find scaling up was the more difficult part?”

“This touches very much on Louise’s realm, but I would like to ask the other witnesses about it. What financial education, Izzy, did you have prior to starting your business and do you think that this adequately equipped you to get off the ground?”

“Louise, we spent yesterday afternoon at a roundtable discussing financial education in schools and we had an interesting group of young people who were very supportive of that. What specific skills and information do you think people need and how easily available is it? Does it differ between what women need and what m…”

“Does anybody think there is sometimes a risk of that kind of education holding people back, particularly women, as opposed to men who are more likely to take risks? We as women are often less likely to take risks, particularly if we have had that sort of education: money does not grow on trees, save up the pennies and …”

“Yes, I am just trying to be devil’s advocate a bit there.”

“That is what I was getting at; thank you, Devie.”

“That is really interesting. Financial education is a subject that I am very keen on. One of the things we talked about yesterday was how we make that financial education exciting to young people and get them to take it on board, as opposed to listening to, potentially, social media influencers who are not always—someti…”