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19 Nov 2025Transport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1224)

Let us pretend the complaint is malicious. You have deactivated the driver. Do they get compensation for that?

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19 Nov 2025Transport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1224)

Kimberly, I am picking on you but I think others have made the same point. You talked about the lack of incentives and training for drivers of accessible vehicles, but you could provide those incentives and training if you wanted to—as a company.

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19 Nov 2025Transport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1224)

Yes, so it is a spurious—

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19 Nov 2025Transport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1224)

Because there is loss of earnings there, and that is fundamentally unfair on the driver.

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19 Nov 2025Transport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1224)

If the money is restored, that is great.

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19 Nov 2025Transport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1224)

That would be interesting. Emma, what is the threshold in terms of a complaint from a customer for deactivating a driver? It is obviously a big step, is it not?

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19 Nov 2025Transport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1224)

Thanks for making the point about video, Saskia. I am now kicking myself for not asking this in the previous session where video and audio recording came up. I do not want to lead you too much in your answer, but what access arrangements do you want around that recorded data? If you have a taxi or an Uber where you are

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18 Nov 2025 ExxonMobil: Mossmorran

I grew up just four or five miles from the plant, and I have to say that it is an area still recovering from Thatcher’s economic vandalism. I thank the Minister for his statement and for the work he has done over many months, as well as my hon. Friend the Member for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (Melanie Ward) for her work

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18 Nov 2025UNESCO: 80th Anniversary

What a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Jonathan Davies) for so ably introducing the debate. The old and new towns of Edinburgh are designated a UNESCO world heritage site. My constituency includes just a small corner of the UNESCO designate

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17 Nov 2025Social Media Posts: Penalties for Offences

I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing this petition to the House. On what analysis does he base his comment that people are more likely to be in prison for a social media tweet than for rape?

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17 Nov 2025Social Media Posts: Penalties for Offences

What a pleasure it is to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Roger. I thank the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) for so ably introducing the debate. Although the hon. Member for Guildford (Zöe Franklin) described her speech as being a little off-piste, I thank her for raising an importan

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17 Nov 2025Social Media Posts: Penalties for Offences

I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman’s summing up; he is doing a great job. Those numbers invite some further investigation. Thirty per day does sound like quite a lot of arrests, but in how many cases was the communication the sole reason for the arrest? Was it just a matter of there being many other factors com

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12 Nov 2025Taxes

This is a serious point. People who are worried about the financial situation in the country will save rather than spend, whether they are private individuals or business. But is not the very aim of this debate to fuel that speculation and make people feel more anxious?

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12 Nov 2025Taxes

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. My home town is Kirkcaldy, and a former MP for Kirkcaldy is Gordon Brown, of course. In the Blair-Brown Government, he did a lot of work to cut child poverty, which is something I am really proud of, and he cut pensioner poverty as well. Conservative Members should be absolute

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12 Nov 2025 Nolan Principles

Will the hon. Gentleman give way, on that point?

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12 Nov 2025 Nolan Principles

It will be very brief. The hon. Gentleman has mentioned tickets. As he will know, a Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary used a limousine to attend football matches. Surely that does not sit easily with him. Let me also point out that his party’s Government are running Scotland via Holyrood, and things have not always

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11 Nov 2025Support for Dyslexic Pupils

What a privilege it is to serve under you today, Ms Butler. I thank the hon. Member for Yeovil (Adam Dance) for introducing this debate, alongside my hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Juliet Campbell). As others have noted, dyslexia affects around 10% of the UK population, with 4% experiencing severe dyslexia. Up to

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11 Nov 2025Support for Dyslexic Pupils

Absolutely. Particularly if the condition is not understood, they just assume—let us face it—that they are not the smartest kid in the class, whereas often the opposite is true. Through working with dyslexic students in my job as a lecturer, I know they are often real problem solvers, as we have heard, and systems thin

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11 Nov 2025Support for Dyslexic Pupils

Absolutely. I became very good at avoiding being given the pen to write on the whiteboard at school, and that was a coping strategy. As we have heard, at the heart of the differences in diagnosis is a real inequality. We are all here, from all parties, to reduce inequality, and it makes absolute sense to focus that len

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11 Nov 2025 Alcohol Duty: UK Wine Sector

What a pleasure it is to serve under you this evening, Mr Turner. I thank the hon. Member for Farnham and Bordon (Gregory Stafford) for introducing the debate so ably, and I agree with much of what he said. He presented a number of questions to the Minister on the operation of alcohol duty, but one question that was pe

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