Speeches by Woodcock.

“I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement, especially the measures to support farmers and hauliers. Banbury has a thriving logistics sector, with brilliant businesses like TWE Haulage; I visited that company last month, and I know it will really welcome the measures that she has announced. Will she and her colleag…”

“My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Is it not the reality that this is about a Leader of the Opposition who called for us to join the US in the war in Iran, and who called the Prime Minister a liar when the evidence has shown that there is absolutely no basis for it? Is this not just the Leader of the Oppositio…”

“This has been a very damaging issue. Peter Mandelson should clearly never have been made ambassador, and I am pleased that the Prime Minister has rightly apologised. There are, however, lessons to be learned already before the end of this Humble Address process. Can the Minister confirm that his Department has already …”

“Given the importance that the Conservatives are placing on the ban, why did they not impose it during the 14 years that they were in government?”

“The right hon. Lady is being generous with her time. I ask her the same question that I posed earlier: if this is so important, why did the Conservatives not get round to doing it when they were in government for 14 years?”

“Is there more that can be done beyond legislation in order to protect our democracy?”

“Have the Government missed an opportunity in the Representation of the People Bill to tackle some of this?”

“Can we have some idea of the assessment the Commission has made on online disinformation and misinformation, and its prevalence and impact in recent UK elections?”

“You have all touched on the electoral system. Briefly, what do you think the Government should do in response to the concerns that you have all flagged up?”

“I am Sean Woodcock, MP for Banbury.”

“The Government have suggested a commission. Would it be something like that, or do you have something else in mind?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship today, Ms Butler. When I first stood for election to this place, I did so with a mission to fix Oxfordshire’s broken housing market. I saw the mess that we were in. I saw the lives broken by that market long before I arrived here. Oxford faces a crisis of unique and crushi…”

“This crisis shows that we cannot rely on emergency payments to resolve geopolitical shocks; we need the electrification of heat in rural areas, and heat pumps play a significant part in that. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government taking steps to roll out renewables and heat pump technology across rural areas wo…”

“I am Sean Woodcock, the MP for Banbury.”

“The Government have a target to build 1.5 million homes over this Parliament. The Ministry told us that a robust regulatory framework will ensure that that commitment is delivered safely and sustainably. How robust is the regulatory framework governing the quality of new build homes?”

“For Taylor Wimpey and Vistry, can you talk more about some of the systemic pressures that affect the quality of new builds? I would be interested if you could lay that out a little more.”

“Linked back to the question I asked at the first panel, we have been told that the 1.5 million homes can be delivered safely and sustainability in terms of quality because of a robust regulatory framework. The New Homes Ombudsman Service told us in that same session that it does not see it as robust at all. Do you agre…”

“It is almost amazing that there are any problems at all, given what you have just set out and the number of stages it goes through. It just seems amazing that so many seem to slip through.”

“Richard, you talked earlier about the value of claims going down, but the NHBC Foundation has reported that, historically, increases in the volumes of house building coincide with rises in the potential number of defects and the lowering of levels of customer satisfaction. Assuming these homes do get built as we head t…”

“So potentially not then.”