Speeches by Jermy.

“3. What steps he is taking to encourage investment in businesses.”

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Vaz. I thank the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson). As it is for a number of speakers today, this debate is deeply personal to me. My dad had a severe stroke with no warning in 2013. He was just 55 years old. He lived with the aftermath of that stroke for 10 …”

“Thank you, Chair. Over the summer, I visited an onion farmer. He had just been notified with about a week’s notice that his abstraction licence was going to be suspended. What that meant was that the yield for his onions for that year was something like 40% down. It was absolutely crucial to his business. Frankly, I ha…”

“A key criticism was of poor communication. You obviously undertake regular monitoring of water levels; that is part of the core of your business. Why is communication with farmers so poor when you are essentially not allowing them to forward plan from a business point of view? They cannot make business decisions becaus…”

“Thinking more widely, there have been previous attempts by Governments to encourage regulators to think about economic growth—for example, Growth Duty, Regulators’ Code. Have those reforms worked? Does the EA actually properly consider economic growth when going about its day-to-day work?”

“Thinking about it from the other point of view, obviously the environment is also important to the economy. Environmental tourism is significant, particularly in Norfolk, and there are risks by changing the approach to be more growth-heavy, particularly risks to the environment. Do you feel as if the EA has the capacit…”

“I am thrilled that my hometown of Thetford in rural South West Norfolk is to receive a share of this funding. Just last week I was at the board meeting where we made our first funding commitments to increase capacity and reopen a derelict medieval church in Thetford town centre as a community space. Does the Minister a…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. This is an important and timely debate, coming on the back of one of the worst harvests on record in this country. We must discuss how the Government prioritise the transformation of food systems in this country and globally, as well as how they seek to addres…”

“I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I am in my 18th year as a member of Thetford town council and I serve as a director on the Charles Burrell Centre committee, a community benefit society in my hometown. I have served on the town council, the district council and the county cou…”

“It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Christopher. I thank the hon. Member for Maidstone and Malling (Helen Grant) for bringing forward this debate today. It is lovely to see cross-party working on such a serious issue. I am not from Kent—I am from Norfolk—but from listening to the debate, there are some clear …”

“I was keen to speak in the debate, to share with hon. Members my own lived experiences of our current welfare system and to explain why I support a number of the amendments. My dad worked hard from the day he left school, at age 15, right the way through to the age of 55. He was an engineer. He paid his taxes and contr…”

“I warmly welcome this statement. After years of neglect, it is quite clear that our infrastructure has been creaking and that opportunities have been missed. That is particularly the case in the east of England, where the Government inherited a per head of population spend that is £1,000 less than the UK average. May I…”

“The Health Secretary has rightly described Norfolk as “the Sahara of dental deserts”—[Official Report, 23 July 2024; Vol. 752, c. 506.] I very much welcome the 700,000 extra dentistry appointments since Labour took office, as well as the money for supervised toothbrushing, but East Anglia is the only region of England …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Western. I thank my Norfolk colleague, the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Steff Aquarone), for securing the debate. One of the real pleasures of being a Member of Parliament is visiting businesses across the constituency. That is something I aim to do regularly in S…”

“There is a clear link between disability and poverty, particularly in rural communities such as mine, where poor public transport adds to difficulties accessing basic medical appointments and makes it either really difficult or really expensive. I wanted to ask the Minister about the PIP process. It is a horrible proce…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Irene Campbell) for opening the debate on behalf of the Petitions Committee. The debate has attracted a lot of interest in my South West Norfolk constituency, where we care passionately about t…”

“I entirely agree. It is through the good work of organisations like the RSPCA that we can increase awareness of those improved standards. As I have mentioned in this Chamber recently, and as was reported in The Guardian last week, through freedom of information requests I have found that industrial farms broke environm…”

“I warmly welcome the news that waiting lists are continuing to fall, not by chance, but because of the choices made by this Government. As the Minister will know, both the hospitals that serve my constituency have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, and both have received funding, but as I visit GP surgeries and de…”

“The Government recently announced £7.5 million of funding for the British Sugar factory in my constituency, support that unlocks a further £43 million of investment. In Liz Truss’s former constituency, this Government are investing to secure growth. The Wissington factory is Europe’s largest sugar beet factory and is c…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (Peter Prinsley) for securing this debate. This is also an appropriate time to acknowledge his more than four decades of service as a surgeon in the NHS. I want to use my time to talk about …”