Speeches by Hobhouse.

“In your experience, how responsive are individual workers and smaller employers to changes in Government skills funding? You have already touched on some of the Government programmes. When the Government have a very big stake in something, it is obviously the Government’s responsibility, but what about the private empl…”

“If you are looking at the skills gaps, I think you mentioned earlier that it takes time, from the beginning, to get people through the whole of a career. What could the Government do in the short term to address the skills gaps? What type of funding, policies and frameworks would you, if you were the Government, put in…”

“Do you think that having a heat pump that you can mess around with in some sort of small employer’s place, where people can try it out and see what works and does not work, would really make a difference? Is that what you are saying?”

“I am trying to understand how I should think about it. They are given the heat pumps and are told, “Install it in your house”?”

“Okay, in their own home—sorry. Understood.”

“Does the hon. Lady agree that it is shame that there has not been recognition from the Dispatch Box that there would be no premier league if there was no grassroots football? The better our grassroots football, the better the league will be.”

“I am sorry, but I will have to stop Back-Bench contributions here. Members have been incredibly good at sticking to a very tight time limit. I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of his point of order. He has put his correction on the record.”

“I will impose a one-minute limit on speeches now, so that we can get as many in as possible.”

“Order. Will the hon. Gentleman bring his remarks quickly to a close?”

“I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called to speak.”

“I intend to call the Front-Bench spokespeople at about 7.5 pm. The debate is heavily oversubscribed, so I am putting an informal time limit of two minutes on all speeches. Even with that I might not get everybody in, but let us see how it goes. I call the Chair of the Transport Committee.”

“We are hearing about the previous Government’s efforts to save British Steel, and we have heard a somewhat confusing account of the deal that the now Leader of the Opposition negotiated. If such a deal existed, can we see a record of it?”

“Ineffective energy trading with the EU is a major barrier for global investors. According to Energy UK, we are losing out on £30 billion of investment in interconnectors alone. What will the Government do to improve our energy trading with the EU to unlock this vital opportunity?”

“Autonomous vehicles are the next step into the future. What discussions has the Secretary of State had with UK manufacturers to ensure that they can take full advantage of the next revolution in how we use cars?”

“This is to everybody. Does the requirement for everything to be connected under the same primary substation not limit the potential to replicate this at scale and apply it to larger renewables? Mary, you have already spoken about this. Steve can go first, and then I will go along the line.”

“If we are all wanting the same thing, who is not wanting it? What is the barrier? Is it Ofgem or National Grid? Who is against it?”

“We have already touched on some of this in the previous session, and that is around consumer-led demand systems and how the Government are ambitious to increase this. I was also at a meeting with ADA, the Association of Decentralised Energy, and talked about the benefits that you, Mary, have just been talking about, in…”

“How do you measure that?”

“Do you think they have a role in the Government’s mission to achieve 8 GW of power from communities?”