Speeches by Bool.

“What do you do to follow up on that where the farm is noncompliant? What process do you have?”

“But as you also identified, there are over 105,000 farms, so is this really enough and what more can you do? Because resources are tight and if you are having to go back and do these reinspections as well, are you actually going to be able to do more?”

“You very proudly stated that the actual number of inspections is going from about 3,000 up to 6,000.”

“I wanted to explore your point a little bit further, Geoff, about being prepared for the implementation of this SPS agreement with the EU. We have just been, as was mentioned, out meeting various different counterparts, and there is definitely ambition to have a mandate agreed by the end of this year and to try to get …”

“How much is it affecting your future look at the moment? For example, are you delaying the market authorisation of novel foods in anticipation or just carrying on business as normal?”

“As a type 1 diabetic, I am very conscious about sugar contents and things. There is sometimes but not always a benefit in knowing the level of sugar in a drink. I know that the amount of sugar in some fizzy drinks has changed. That has been a normal diabetics’ go-to and suddenly it does not have the same effect. The po…”

“On rare moments, Members on both sides of the House come to the Chamber with the same question on their minds: how did it get to this? The Prime Minister is proud of his record as Director of Public Prosecutions and of his skill to prosecute, interrogate and investigate—skills that are absent here. He will also be more…”

“The Conservatives raised the issue of a national statutory inquiry in January. The Government attempted to block our calls for an inquiry until they were forced into a U-turn in June. On 2 September, the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, the hon. Member for Birmingham Yardley (Jess Phillips), said, “thi…”

“When the Minister consults on those powers, will he include the agricultural sector? With seasonal work, there is a big concern that employers will not necessarily have time to provide a notice period as the weather changes. On behalf of all our farmers, I ask him to consider that.”

“The Minister agreed with my hon. Friend the Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge) that industrial collaboration between the UK and Poland is an important part of our relationship. A key part of that is primarily focused on ground-based air defence, and these events surely underline why that is critical to us and o…”

“Today is the 10th annual Back British Farming Day. Given that the Prime Minister has been so keen on resets in recent weeks, will he reset his relationship with our farmers and reverse the family farm tax?”

“Obviously the Government have large ambitions about house building that they are going to push, but that is going to be incredibly water-intensive. Whilst the water companies are saying, “Oh yes, we will be resilient in the future,” do you actually have confidence in that? What other measures do you think you need to b…”

“I assume you are doing a report or analysis into this at this point? Sometimes the absence of data and figures is the one thing we struggle with a lot in these areas.”

“History is key in all these things. If we look back to the drought in 2022 and 2023, actually several water companies were apparently too slow to prepare applications for their drought permits and orders, and seemed to favour relying on emergency measures rather than actually that investing you were talking about. Do y…”

“As we have mentioned numerous times, we know that lots of different areas across the UK are in prolonged drought. In Northamptonshire we are experiencing prolonged dry weather, where the Northampton arm of the Grand Union Canal has had to be closed and in my constituency, Stoke Bruerne Lock is also closed. Obviously th…”

“We talk about the cost. The TaxPayers’ Alliance has concerns about the amounts we are calculating, because they will be dependent on inflation. The calculations do not take into account market values, so the £35 billion stated by the Government Actuary’s Department will actually be more like £47 billion.”

“22. What steps he is taking to help support veterans into employment.”

“From my proud support of the National Transition Event held annually at Silverstone in my constituency, I am aware of the work of Mission Community, a service charity tasked with the delivery of the Office for Veterans’ Affairs’ veterans industry engagement programme, which is designed to advocate for our veterans by w…”

“As a type 1 diabetic myself, I completely agree with what the hon. Member says. Exercise is an excellent way of moderating blood sugar levels, but it can also bring stresses and strains, as diabetics do worry about hypoglycaemia, which I am sure he will come to. I am a big fan of anything we can do to support people to…”

“T5. On 23 July, my constituent Dr Lindsey Fitzharris, a naturalised British citizen who is undergoing cancer treatment, was denied boarding her flight home to the UK from the US, a journey she has made numerous times without trouble. She was told to contact the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for an emerge…”