Speeches by Hoare.

“Given the nature and detail of your work, would I be right to suspect that if those statistics were collated and available in the public sphere, you would have seen them, noticed them and come across them?”

“Forgive me if I misheard you, but I think you said in an answer to an earlier question that granular data is not available to totalise the asylum claims made by people in Northern Ireland. Did I hear you correctly?”

“Predecessor Committees were assured by then Ministers and representatives of law enforcement, from both sides of the Irish border, that policing and law enforcement post Brexit would be, by definition, different in methodology, but equal in robustness and outcomes. In a yes or no answer, has that help/prediction been b…”

“That would be helpful, because we are trying to assess the scale. If the Government are successful on, for example, channel crossings, but a new route then opens up, it would be helpful for us to be able to compare some baselines and assess whether it is evolving at all. That would be enormously helpful to try to advan…”

“Is the Minister, and other Ministers who are involved in this area, fully seized of the fact that this is a very unusual situation, in that the professional bodies and the lion’s share of practitioners are calling for regulation? It is very unusual that they want to see regulation.”

“The Minister will know that this is the second Adjournment debate on this issue that he has had to respond to in these last several months. Given the fact that most practitioners want to see regulation and the public want to see regulation, does my hon. Friend share my concern that the Government seem to be very slow o…”

“As heating oil and petrol prices go up in rural North Dorset, my constituents are hearing the Chancellor echo one of her predecessors in effectively saying, “Crisis? What crisis?” She needs to actively get a grip on this issue. Motorists in rural areas use their cars because they have to. The vast majority of my consti…”

“The Minister and the Government are to be commended for trying to wrestle with this issue, and where there can be cross-party consensus, let us build on and foster it. Lots of groups of people who come to this country generate complaints, but one group that does not are those who come from New Zealand and Australia to …”

“You have now.”

“We agree on that.”

“Secretary of State, let us not rehearse the damp squib of yesterday’s spring statement. If anybody thinks that there is stability in the UK economy, they are living in cloud cuckoo land.”

“I am absorbing by osmosis your energy.”

“It wasn’t a personal criticism of you, Matthew.”

“Secretary of State, your party waited 14 long years to be in government. You are now in the driving seat. You have overlapping matrices, strategies, boards, plans, and turf warfare between Westminster Departments and the Treasury, and between Westminster Departments and the NIO. Do you share a growing concern that it i…”

“It takes two to tango, Secretary of State.”

“Is your dance card full, Chairman? I think the Secretary of State and you could do a rumba up and down the room.”

“Secretary of State, on the point that Ms Hanna has been raising, the “timidity” of the NIO on this is slightly dispiriting, in that the points are drawn and the picture is painted but the rest of the dots are not quite joined up. There is surely scope and space here for the NIO and the guarantors of the Good Friday agr…”

“But the question is who finds them, and how?”

“Will the Minister, in listening mode, listen to Welsh sheep farmers who are desperately concerned about being able to access Australian and New Zealand sheep shearers this year, as this is now an animal welfare issue? What conversations has she had with her right hon. Friend the Home Secretary to ensure that those Comm…”

“A militarily degraded Iran would be welcomed by both the region and the world, but an Iran that still possesses enriched uranium and has the potential to become a failed state is something to be avoided at all costs—the Prime Minister recognises that. While it is uncertain what President Trump’s plan is, at some point …”