Speeches by Olney.

“Jo, there was a lot of concern about the impact of the breach on the operations of the legal aid providers. You wrote to the Committee at the beginning of this month to say that, “the attack and subsequent response have” not “led directly to any providers withdrawing from the market,” which seems quite a high bar. Do y…”

“What about appearance in hearings?”

“I want to ask about the cash flow point. Were you making loans to providers?”

“Per year?”

“Is there an increased risk of child protection failure from a litigant in person in a family court, particularly when the other side is properly represented?”

“So where you have overpaid in the interim, you will not aim to claw that back straightaway. You will claw that back over time.”

“Excellent, thank you. I want to move on to how the contingency arrangements have affected the delivery of justice. We have talked about the contingency arrangements—particularly the representation service—and we have identified that family courts are one of the main areas for that. What impact has the contingency had o…”

“The DFT’s own updated appraisal report shows that the economic benefits of a third runway are either exaggerated or misguided. The Labour Government are yet to produce their economic analysis. Meanwhile, Heathrow Airport Ltd is in more than £15 billion-worth of debt and its own proposal has increased in cost by 50% sin…”

“That is really good to hear, as it is a good example of how the co-operative movement promotes innovation, particularly in promoting wider social participation. However, the fact that we have to have innovative schemes driven by the co-operative sector points to the challenges that so many people find in using the appr…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I thank the hon. Member for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton (Jim McMahon) for his work in securing this important debate. It has been a real pleasure to hear contributions from all the Labour and Co-operative party Members this afternoon. The current econ…”

“Conrad, I was listening to what you were saying earlier and obviously you have identified pockets of best practice on this, but what is coming across quite clearly is that there is no systemic or systematic approach across Government as a whole to identifying cost savings. Do you think it would be helpful if individual…”

“But the Report does actually identify, at paragraph 2.9, that there is “an absence of specific accountability” for collecting cost data. Do you accept that?”

“Finally, Conrad, how soon will this revised, updated guidance be available for Departments?”

“When you talk about benchmarking, are you talking about benchmarking between Government Departments? You have already given some good examples in the NHS. Are you expecting other Government Departments to benchmark themselves against that, or will you be looking at external benchmarks?”

“Conrad, do you think there is more that can be done to incentivise Departments to collect the sort of data that this Report has identified as lacking?”

“Farhad, I want to ask a very specific question about the use of tech to improve efficiency and how that can bring down costs for users. I have been waging a campaign across two Parliaments now to scrap court transcript fees for victims of sexual assault. One of my constituents was charged £7,000 for the transcript of t…”

“T5. People across the UK are suffering in silence with gambling addictions. The proliferation of online betting has only added to the issue, as people are able to wager more money than they can afford with just a click on their phone screen. Will the Minister speak to her colleague the Chancellor in advance of the upco…”

“New clause 2, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Didcot and Wantage (Olly Glover), would require the Government to publish a report within six months of securing the supply of bioethanol for sustainable aviation fuel production. The Government have repeatedly cited the increased use of SAF as the answer to questio…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I thank the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Lincoln Jopp) for securing this debate. The Liberal Democrats support measures that work to strengthen employment rights, so yesterday we welcomed aspects of the Employment Rights Bill, such as boosting statutory sic…”

“I am happy to take another intervention.”