Speeches by Roca.

“Mr Hinton, what do you understand the impact caused by this outage on local businesses to have been?”

“We’re sticking to businesses.”

“But there might be a perception that your shareholders charge you what might be considered a very profitable rate of return on the funding that they provide to you.”

“Do you have a sense of the financial impact that it had? Can you put a figure on it?”

“It is not for now, but it would be helpful to understand the instrument, whether that went into another holding company or, if your shareholders are providing funding, what they charge you for it.”

“How much is—”

“I begin by offering my deepest sympathy to the family of Ethan McLeod, who died tragically in a car accident yesterday. He was a brilliant footballer and an inspiration to young people across Macclesfield. I am proud to present to the House a petition signed by 7,200 residents on paper, complemented by a further 11,714…”

“I welcome the increased funding. Victim support and the commissioning of those services is incredibly important, and the operational independence of police and crime commissioners has been invaluable in that regard. What assurances can Ministers provide that, with the abolition of PCCs, victim support will not be led b…”

“10. What steps his Department is taking to provide adequate funding for victim support services.”

“I completely agree. As the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) raised earlier, it is the Baltic countries—Poland, Finland, those that have had direct experience of Russian aggression—that are most clear-eyed about the Russian threat. We do not want a wishy-washy peace that does not deliver genu…”

“I add my commendation to the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) for securing this important debate. Hearing the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) speak reminded me of our trip to Ukraine earlier in the year. Thinking of surreal moments, it cannot be mor…”

“Ryan Cornelius, a British citizen, has been unfairly incarcerated in Dubai for the past 17 years. His son was six when he went to prison; he is now 23 years old. Some 150 parliamentarians from both Houses wrote to the Dubai authorities asking for Mr Cornelius’s release on the UAE’s national day—today—to no avail. Can t…”

“Will you publish the assessments so that producers and businesses know how big the divergence is?”

“You do not own the negotiations, which are led by Nick Thomas-Symonds are they not? I know that there are rumours out of Brussels that there are internal divisions in the debate around the mandate for the negotiations on the EU side, and some talk about it going beyond what was in the common understanding. I know that …”

“SPS is generally positive and potentially has massive positive implications for the economy. We do need to say that out loud sometimes, because this is a great achievement. It is timely that we are talking about this today, as the EU working group on the UK—or the European Council working group—is meeting as we speak t…”

“Thank you, Chair, and belated congratulations on your appointment, Minister.”

“You will do your modelling again and then that will help your design of the revised SFI scheme. Thank you.”

“What are you doing to build capacity in DEFRA, FSS, FSA? How many civil servants in the Department are assigned to supporting the negotiations and preparing to implement the agreement? If you do not have the figures with you, perhaps you could send them to us.”

“My question is extremely brief, Chair. To clarify on viability, there was obviously the NAO information. Emily, are you saying that there will be new information on viability?”

“Broadly speaking then, you would prefer there not to be any further divergence during the period of the negotiations?”