Speeches by Hobhouse.

“Luke Myer will move the motion and the Minister will respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister. As is the convention for 30-minute debates, there will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up.”

“Order. I will have to reduce the speaking time to two minutes. I remind hon. Members that if they take interventions, it eats into the time of those who are on the call list.”

“Order. Could I encourage the hon. Gentleman to come to an end, because it is a very short debate and many Members want to come in?”

“It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Western. I congratulate the hon. Member for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel) on bringing this important subject to Westminster Hall. The state of our private rental properties is an appalling open secret. One in four private renters live in fuel poverty; 1.6 million…”

“Does the hon. Lady agree with my social housing provider, Curo, that it is impossible for social housing providers to both build the new social and affordable homes that are required and maintain homes to a decent standard?”

“Could you be very precise about the data? What are we looking at? What is the missing data? Some data already exists. What is the missing data? What is the RSPB concerned about, Shaun?”

“We need to move on, but I was just possibly going to ask Shaun to contradict that—I don’t know, what is your view?”

“You have already anticipated my last question. Do you think that there is the right balance between local environmental impacts and the national need for clean power? From what you are saying, although not all the data has been gathered and all environmental impacts fully understood, you think the balance between the t…”

“Sarah, when you say there is already quite a lot of data, what data already exists?”

“Yes, but the gaps need to be filled in. I will ask Dr Angeloudis first and then Shaun can come in as well.”

“The whole point about doing it consequently is, first, to find out whether the impact is too high, which would mean we would not go ahead with the project. If you run it parallel, there is almost an assumption that the project is going ahead. You are collecting the data at the same time, but, on the whole, the decision…”

“We have already gone into some of the environmental concerns. Shaun, if I hear you correctly, the view of the RSPB on a barrage is “absolutely not”. For lagoons, it is “maybe”, but you still have concerns. Chair, we can leave that question because it has already been answered. I would like to understand the concerns th…”

“We need to move on, but I was just possibly going to ask Shaun to contradict that—I don’t know, what is your view?”

“You have already anticipated my last question. Do you think that there is the right balance between local environmental impacts and the national need for clean power? From what you are saying, although not all the data has been gathered and all environmental impacts fully understood, you think the balance between the t…”

“Sarah, when you say there is already quite a lot of data, what data already exists?”

“Could you be very precise about the data? What are we looking at? What is the missing data? Some data already exists. What is the missing data? What is the RSPB concerned about, Shaun?”

“Yes, but the gaps need to be filled in. I will ask Dr Angeloudis first and then Shaun can come in as well.”

“The whole point about doing it consequently is, first, to find out whether the impact is too high, which would mean we would not go ahead with the project. If you run it parallel, there is almost an assumption that the project is going ahead. You are collecting the data at the same time, but, on the whole, the decision…”

“We have already gone into some of the environmental concerns. Shaun, if I hear you correctly, the view of the RSPB on a barrage is “absolutely not”. For lagoons, it is “maybe”, but you still have concerns. Chair, we can leave that question because it has already been answered. I would like to understand the concerns th…”

“My constituents repeatedly raise with me the lack of affordable childcare as a key factor driving the gender pay gap. To give families real choice in those crucial early months, will the Government consider increasing paternity pay to 90% of earnings, with a cap for higher earners?”