Speeches by Hoare.

“The hon. Gentleman is right, and I wanted to echo the point raised by the hon. Member for South Cotswolds. I note the word “or”, but I like the word “and”. Indeed, I will share with the House that I am on a particularly stringent January diet. It is slightly working, I think, but there is still a long way to go. Ask an…”

“I rise in support of the Bill. As a co-sponsor, I congratulate the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) for not just introducing the Bill but the way in which she introduced it. Echoing the hon. Member for Brent West (Barry Gardiner), I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Herne Bay and Sandwich (Sir…”

“To my neighbour from West Dorset? Of course.”

“The hon. Lady is pushing at an open door. There is much merit in the trade and co-operation agreement that we have with the European Union. That should never have been seen as an event; it should be an evolutionary process, responding to events in a pragmatic and sensible way while always maintaining the integrity of t…”

“The hon. Lady needed encouragement; she has got it.”

“Let me respond to my hon. Friend by quoting one of his great political heroes, the noble Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton: just because we cannot do good everywhere, that does not mean we cannot do a little bit of good here. I understand the point that my hon. Friend makes. Of course we have to be conscious of cost diff…”

“Dorset is well represented this morning. I will of course give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch.”

“This is getting rather worrying, because I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Either he is doing harm to his political career or I am doing harm to what might be left of mine. I shall leave it to my hon. Friend the shadow Deputy Chief Whip to jot that down in his little red book. I find UK manufacturing really strange in t…”

“I thank the Leader of the House for her statement. Lib Dem-controlled Dorset council is proposing to introduce night-time car parking charges. That would have a devastating impact on the market towns of Verwood, Blandford Forum, Gillingham, Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton in my constituency, bringing into doubt the …”

“I welcome the announcement on the judicial review proposals. The Government’s plan for change is an important endeavour, which will need not just Cabinet colleagues but civil servants to row in behind it. Is the Minister able to tell the House how he is marshalling and co-ordinating political and official activities to…”

“The weight of public and business opinion is not with the Minister on this issue, and the body of expert opinion speaking out against this tax proposal is now overwhelming. The Minister is a kindly man, so I wonder if he will indulge me. What would he be saying if he were in opposition and that weight of opinion was be…”

“The temporary use of top-ups to plug gaps is a perennial problem when it comes to relationships between Treasury, the Northern Ireland Office, the Executive and the whole of Northern Ireland. It does not address the fundamental issue alluded to by Gavin about the base core assessment of need; the foundation is wrong, h…”

“That is music to my ears as a keen devolutionist, but I have always had a concern that the devolveds are often inclined to trade in splendid isolation of operation and never think to reach out and ask questions of each other and back to Westminster. It is good to hear that you are driving forward this sharing of best p…”

“In an earlier answer to a question, you told the Committee that you were convinced that the local political will was there to deliver transformation. You are absolutely right to point to the unhealthily long time that the Executive has not been sitting, and the backlog of transformation is artificially distorted, is it…”

“It is encouraging to hear that. Can I press upon you the importance of delivering that strategy and stability of funding, particularly for those organisations in the community working with young people? Very often, they are stopping people getting into criminality, antisocial behaviour and so on. When they finally buil…”

“Good morning, witnesses. Minister, could I ask you this? I am becoming increasingly encouraged, I have to say, that there seems to be a step change in the MO of the Executive, which is building on mutual trust and collaborative working to face into those difficult and challenging political decisions that need to be tak…”

“To any of you, is there an identifiable trend, let’s say over the last 10 years or so, of referring patients to English providers? If the trend is upwards, does that show an unwillingness of clinicians to practise in Wales, or an antipathy towards geographical specialisms rather than trying to be generalists across the…”

“What about from the patient perspective?”

“Are you able to write to the Committee on that?”

“That would be helpful. Thank you. Dr Kelly, do you have an observation on that?”