Speeches by Huq.

“Yes. We discussed “Bend It Like Beckham” in the context of film on this Committee. That is a good 20-something years ago. If those people can now coach—”

“A structured training route, that sort of stuff.”

“Related to that—I think you have answered this a bit—you said that all the research shows that the number of volunteers is shrinking, but also that they are a narrow category of people anyway, from higher socioeconomic backgrounds. Sarah, you said it was very un-diverse. Do you have any other ideas for getting in a wid…”

“Is it different for different sports? We have Trailfinders rugby in Ealing, and they have had difficulties going up a league because their facilities are not good enough. However, they also think that people perceive rugby to be a bit of an elitist public school thing. Could different sports do stuff because everything…”

“I think you were all there when I asked this same question to the panel before. Figures from London Sport show that there is a lack of diversity in the volunteer workforce. What changes would you request of Government to get a wider range of people involved in coaching and that kind of thing?”

“I welcome my right hon. Friend’s strong statement that blockading all aid into Gaza, including UK aid, is “appalling and unacceptable”. What discussions did he have with G7 colleagues about what can be done about this provocative action during Ramadan, and what consequences are there for what people are saying is a bre…”

“From 5 am to 10 pm daily, the Patels’ newsagent, off licence and post office was an Acton staple—until Horizon slapped it with a £123,000 demand, and Mrs Patel had a series of mini-strokes. Will Ministers look into the fact that their compensation was rejected because Mr Patel was the postmaster, and show their love fo…”

“4. What steps he is taking to support high street businesses.”

“Order. Through the Chair, please.”

“I remind Members to stand if they want to speak, so that we can work out who is going next.”

“Instituting an aid blockade, while getting on for 50,000 Gazans have been killed and there is a polio epidemic, surely looks as if civilian deprivation is being used as a weapon of war. What are the Government doing about that, and to ensure that the entire fragile ceasefire does not fall apart and the hostages can com…”

“It is interesting to learn that—”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Vickers, and to see the newly minted Minister in his place—I think it is the first time I have been in a debate with him. It is also a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds), who was the Secretary of State; I sometimes see him on the…”

“The hon. Lady and I were both girls in those schools, and she talked about her daughter. Does she accept that it is often the parents who want their daughters to have an all-girls education. There are figures from the Girls’ Schools Association. There is also the head of Dame Allan’s girls’ school, who said that girls …”

“I would suggest implementing it in a slightly different way, based on turnover—so doing it for the enormous schools that can afford it, but not for smaller ones that have been caught in the trap. There is also an argument for looking at grammar schools, which are a legacy from many years ago. We do not have them in my …”

“I do not know how parliamentary that language is. I am not going to join in the praise of Eton, particularly because I think the hon. Lady may have been an atypical parent. I imagine that some parents there would be able to bear a 20% increase, and for a school that is clever with its accounts, these things may just be…”

“I am not finished addressing the first point. Can we do this sequentially? I will respond to the hon. Member for Windsor (Jack Rankin) first and then I will take the hon. Lady’s intervention. It is interesting to learn that, but my point is that such schools are still going to be quids in after this.”

“I am sorry to do this, but I am imposing a newly reduced time limit of three and a half minutes.”

“With a time limit of four minutes—the clock is counting backwards—I call Jim Shannon.”

“T7. One thousand musical acts from Annie Lennox to Zero 7 have released an album of blank tracks, which is where they feel the text and data mining exception is leading. Will my right hon. and hon. Friends look into this, so that Great British creativity is not replaced with AI butchery?”