Speeches by Paul.

“Chair, do I have time to move on to tax?”

“I am a serving Surrey county councillor.”

“My colleague, Neil Shastri-Hurst, asked a written parliamentary question recently. I felt it did not get an adequate answer, so I am going to take the opportunity to ask you both today. How much of the £1.8 billion raised from the VAT on school fees was directly spent on teaching staff in the state sector?”

“We are seeing 33,000 more pupils come into the state sector, and many of those will have SEND. Do you anticipate seeing an increase in class sizes in the state sector as a result?”

“You pledged to recruit 6,500 teachers, yet you have excluded primary schools when measuring against that pledge—why?”

“Julie Robinson, the chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, said that 105 independent schools have closed since this policy was introduced and that she expects more to close. One fifth of those were in London and the surrounding areas, and it appears that pupil numbers in independent schools have come down …”

“I really welcome this restriction on social media for children. As a mother, I am grateful for it, and I am grateful to everyone across the House who has pushed for it. As others have alluded to, there will clearly be practical issues and difficulties with implementation, and we all need to work together to address tha…”

“Women and girls have lost medals, podium places, earnings, and some may even have been injured due to sporting bodies not complying with the Equality Act 2010 and allowing males to compete against them. What will the EHRC do to support women and girls who want to hold sporting bodies to account for these historic injus…”

“Absolutely, and it is probably worth considering where taxpayer money is going and making sure that it is going to sporting bodies that understand and are taking the law seriously.”

“It is a good thing to raise with the Justice Secretary. It is on the record; we know this is happening. Answers have been provided; it is in black and white, so maybe I can follow up with you afterwards as to what action you will take with respect to that.”

“Is it just an intervention in a case? I am telling you now we have 10 biological males—some are sex offenders—in women’s prisons. What are you going to do about it?”

“Let us work with a real example: prisons. It looks like there are up to 10 biological males in women’s prisons. Six of those are at a prison in my constituency, HMP Downview. A significant proportion of them are likely to be sex offenders; that is what the statistics tell us. Can you advise me what you would now do wit…”

“Something that is important for us to remember—particularly when we are looking at these tensions as you so eloquently explained—is that over 50% of the population is women and girls. What action does the EHRC intend to take to address any breaches of the Equality Act robustly, particularly in hospitals, schools and pr…”

“Did you ever ask the Government to withdraw the existing code that we know is incorrect?”

“It is great to see you here, thank you so much for all your hard work on the code of practice; it is really helpful for everyone to have a better understanding of what the law means. I will start with a question on the practical implications of the Government not withdrawing the existing incorrect guidance and taking s…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stuart, and to be responding today on behalf of His Majesty’s Opposition. I begin by sincerely congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight East (Joe Robertson) on securing this debate, and I thank all Members who have spoken so passionately about thei…”

“I agree with the hon. Gentleman, as I often do. Hospitality businesses are valued employers, community anchors and, for many young people, the first step on the career ladder. I think we all agree that such businesses should be supported right across the country—a point that the hon. Gentleman just eloquently made—but …”

“The good news is that we are very flexible about when to do it. We are also very comfortable about waiting. Our preference would be to do it in the Chamber. As you will see from the number of Members who support it, we made sure that we got seven Labour MPs to support it in order that we would qualify. But in a lot of …”

“Thank you for your time today. As you have said, we have put forward an application for a debate on protecting the green belt and farmland from inappropriate development. We think that it is particularly important at this time that we have a detailed debate, given the Government’s ambition to build 1.5 million homes. T…”

“School libraries are not currently statutory. Are you happy with that? Are you considering putting them on a statutory footing? I also have a question about data collection on the schools that have libraries. Have you looked at Ofsted reporting on that? That is another approach to getting more transparency about which …”