Speeches by Hobhouse.

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dame Siobhain. I congratulate the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) on securing this important debate. Every 90 seconds, someone in the UK is admitted to hospital with an acquired brain injury. Participation in sport carries some of th…”

“I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. I congratulate her branch of Headway on its wonderful work and the award it is about to receive. What would we do without local charities leading the way and, often, guiding us? In Bath, North East Fife and other constituencies across the country, Headway provides day service…”

“In October, more than 200 UK and EU cultural and creative organisations issued a joint statement calling for the UK to rejoin Creative Europe and take part in its proposed successor, AgoraEU, giving lots of young people access to grants and cultural exchanges. What assessment have the Government made of rejoining Creat…”

“It is a discussion and it is also feeding back to what we heard and that is the co-benefit with nature. Nature is to one effect also very much affected by climate change so a lot of species loss, a lot of habitat loss, but at the same time nature can also be a saviour of a lot of things. How would you see that relation…”

“So climate action and nature protection are not running against each other but very much work together?”

“Winding up on what you have just been saying, your citizens’ assemblies, for years I was a member of the Electoral Reform Society. They were always saying citizens’ assemblies are so effective in engaging, but it is a weigh-up for Government how much money and resource you want to invest in that. I would say informatio…”

“When you were engaging with the public in your citizens’ assemblies, did you find that it was easier to engage with the public on nature issues rather than on electrification and energy transition?”

“If something is cheap, easy and affordable, which consumer would not make that decision?”

“Is it not asking the consumer ultimately too much, saying that they are responsible for it? It is for the Government and industry, for example, to pick up, then government incentives or government policy certainly, all these sorts of things, where ultimately the responsibility and the burden is not on the consumer and …”

“While the detail of whether the Treasury was dealing with a fiscal black hole or a fiscal lack of headroom will be rather lost on most of my Bath constituents, does the Minister agree that the weeks of speculation leading up to the Budget were very damaging, particularly to businesses, and that his Department could hav…”

“In Bath, our economy depends on highly skilled workers in engineering, the creative industries and the digital sector. Employers tell me time and again that the current apprenticeship system simply does not deliver the pipeline they need. Will the Government be serious about growth by replacing the broken apprenticeshi…”

“That is interesting: on my draft, it says Tuesday for 90 minutes or Thursday for 90 minutes, but I don’t know whether that reached you.”

“I would be happy with either.”

“Health.”

“Thank you, Chair and members of the Committee, for letting me speak to my application this afternoon. For many years now, this Committee has kindly allocated a debate for Eating Disorders Awareness Week. It is something that the eating disorder charity Beat asks Parliament to do as part of Eating Disorders Awareness We…”

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Edward. I congratulate the hon. Member for Rushcliffe (James Naish) on his strong advocacy on this topic. I welcome the Government’s confirmation last week that people with BNO visas will continue to qualify for permanent residence in the UK after five years. That is…”

“My all-party parliamentary group on eating disorders recently published a report on preventing eating disorder-related death. The report highlighted that eating disorders are not accurately recorded on death certificates. I was promised an update from the Minister for Women’s Health and Mental Health over two months ag…”

“The hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Sarah Bool) did not let me ask this question earlier, but is it not true that the safe and legal routes have been all but destroyed except for BNO and for Ukrainians? It is really important that the Government restore safe and legal routes to this country to make sure that ev…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“Will the Minister give way?”