Speeches by Moore.

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“I am pleased to see that the hon. Member has been given her Labour Whips’ handout note. It is interesting that not once did I hear her oppose the Labour Government’s increase in council tax. Not only that, but she did not call out the mismanagement of the Labour-controlled authority. I am referring to the whopping £50 …”

“I will give way to my neighbour, the hon. Member for Shipley (Anna Dixon). I hope that she will join me in opposing the council tax rise.”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“I would be interested to hear what the hon. Lady’s constituents say. She has quoted the previous Administration completely wrongly, because they were absolutely behind the campaign to split the two constituencies apart. Indeed, I had many a meeting with the boundary commission. The challenge is that we have to get cons…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“I give way to the hon. Member for Shipley.”

“I absolutely agree. That point has been made not only by my hon. Friend, but by many Conservative Members. They say that the Government may, on the one hand, be passing down finance to local government, but they are, on the other hand, taking it away through the increase in employer national insurance contributions. Th…”

“I will not give way, because I do not think the hon. Lady will agree with me and many of the constituents across the Bradford district in opposing a nearly 10% increase in council tax. I hope that her constituents are watching. Not only that; it also comes down to the absolute mismanagement of children’s services by Br…”

“I rise to speak on behalf of my constituents across Keighley, Ilkley, Silsden, Craven, Worth Valley, and indeed my wider constituency area. I want to focus on a specific part of the Government’s announcement and the real frustration that all my constituents will now face, as a result of the Government’s decision, a 9.9…”

“Thank you for your time this afternoon. I want to build on the point Connor just made around the settlement wanting to achieve 13,000 as a combination of neighbourhood police officers and PCSOs. I assume that there is a cost differential between recruiting PCSOs as opposed to neighbourhood police officers. Do you know …”

“Just expanding on that, how is the Home Office planning on meeting the challenge, inevitably, where different forces want to potentially bid for a different combination of PCSOs and neighbourhood police officers? I assume that it has not indicated the figures, but if it is cheaper for PCSOs to form that part of the rec…”

“It would be useful to have that in writing. If police forces are saying to us, “In order to facilitate keeping as many police officers or PCSOs out on the streets as possible with our existing numbers before the additional recruitment, we actually need more backroom staff to be able to allow the existing officers to sp…”

“Just finally on this point, correct me if I am wrong, but I assume that the 13,000 are additional staff over and above those who may be retiring, falling ill, taking leave, having contracts terminated and so on.”

“I will move on to visas. What considerations do the Home Office take into account when deciding the level of visa fees?”

“That brings me nicely to my next follow-up point. How do you balance the competing priorities of controlling net migration, making sure that you still have revenue coming into the Treasury—if not increasing it—alongside workforce demands across different sectors and the ambitions of growth?”

“How do you go about that process of cross-departmental agreement? Putting up the price of one visa could have an impact on the amount of revenue coming in.”

“I always agree that it is fine in this place for us to be designing guidance, regulations or indeed other legislation, but unless it practically works and has the positive impact it was designed to have, it benefits no one. More datasets and data collected and available to Government to help them make the right decisio…”

“The hon. Member must have read my speech, because I will come later to the importance of all employers and employees being aware of the rights that already exist. There are a number of protection measures out there. The challenge is that employers and employees do not necessarily know what support is available. Through…”