Speeches by Aquarone.

“To your point, Chair, if we are to have growth in aviation, it means that the budget for carbon that we are increasing aviation’s share of has to come from somewhere else, and that could potentially harm economic growth in other sectors, surely.”

“I am very interested to see that.”

“I speak today on behalf of the 392 signatories from North Norfolk, and our wider community as a whole. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending Saturday morning with farmers outside a supermarket in my constituency; many people who might not have initially been supportive of their cause really appreciated t…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) for securing this debate. In North Norfolk, half of my constituents live in settlements of just a few hundred houses, or even fewer; the other half live in market towns, all but one of which have populations well under 10,000. The…”

“I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as a Norfolk county councillor. The Conservatives leading Norfolk county council have nearly bankrupted our county, failed children with special educational needs and disabilities, penalised those with disabilities, blown £50 million on four mi…”

“T3. In Norfolk and Waveney, 44% of women on the gynaecology waiting list have been waiting for treatment for longer than the 18-week NHS target, and one in 10 have been waiting over a year. They are the worst waiting time statistics in England, so will the Minister set out what conversations she has had with the Secret…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing such an important debate, especially on World Cancer Day. In my constituency of North Norfolk, Radiotherapy UK found that nobody can access radiotherapy treatment within 75 minutes by public transport. Does he agree that we need a two-pronged approach to tackle this—to fix our …”

“Would it be fair to say that, if the infrastructure and the safe routes were there, there would be a commercial imperative for employers to encourage it? If you have a fleet of people cleaning public toilets, for example, going by bike rather than van would happen as a natural extension of having the operations and inf…”

“This is sort of the same question that Olly asked but about the Department’s integrated transport strategy. Just to do my little rant, as I trailed earlier, I remember in a previous life appealing to planners about a development where there were lots of different red line boundary settlements, 1,800 houses, the absolut…”

“I am very pleased to hear it. Thank you. You will be aware that the Public Accounts Committee recommended: “DfT and Active Travel England should, by April 2024, develop a clear and consistent approach for ensuring greater integration of active travel infrastructure with the public transport network.” The CEO is on seco…”

“Thanks for what you have offered us so far. I totally support what Olly said; it is very refreshing. I am also left feeling insanely frustrated about the last few decades of failure in this country and the general inability, it seems, to think strategically, particularly when it comes to rural areas, as has been descri…”

“Yes, that’s right. And the issue of possibly using active travel to carry out work?”

“This is very much related to what you have just said. To me, the scale and complexity of this organisational change programme is fascinating. I know that both the Secretary of State and you have mentioned culture change. It is one of those concepts that risks staying up in the clouds and nobody understands what it mean…”

“Right. Go ahead and fix the health service.”

“Thank you.”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Marie Goldman) and refer hon. Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Conservative-controlled Norfolk county council is failing too many SEND children—moreover, the Conservative Government failed SEND children—but the system is also failing …”

“Forgive the clumsy metaphor, but when all the bright lights come on and GBR exists, the shadow disappears.”

“It is not a sort of arm’s length scrutiny function. It is you in the room talking about it.”

“And if it doesn’t in your opinion, who do you go to then?”

“We talked a bit about what shadow GBR is doing now. There is going to come a point when it is time to set up GBR proper. I imagine that setting up Great British Railways has quite a big to-do list attached to it. There will be hiring a chief exec and senior managers; there will be answering the question about the opera…”