Speeches by Brandreth.

“I want to dig a bit more into the foreign policy aims of our sanctions policy. Are we clear about them? Are we articulating them clearly? What would good communication of them look like? Perhaps Freya Page might want to come in.”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered road safety around schools. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine, and to have secured this debate on such an important topic. On 12 November last year, a young boy left school at the end of the day, stepped into the road directly outside his school …”

“The hon. Lady is making a very passionate speech on an extremely important topic. She will know that my constituency of Chester South and Eddisbury borders Wales, and that there are many family farmers in north Wales who are deeply concerned about the consequences of this policy. Does she agree that it will impact not …”

“Bassam, could you come in on that as well?”

“Obviously, since 7 October, the conflict has led to so many deaths. In one of your previous answers, Robi, you said that you have had 80 new members, and just three have left. Can you confirm that that is the change in membership that you have had? I want to ask you and Bassam whether you have seen a change in attitude…”

“Obviously, since 7 October, the conflict has led to so many deaths. In one of your previous answers, Robi, you said that you have had 80 new members, and just three have left. Can you confirm that that is the change in membership that you have had? I want to ask you and Bassam whether you have seen a change in attitude…”

“Bassam, could you come in on that as well?”

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“I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stroud (Dr Opher) for securing this debate on the important subject of the impact of food and diet on obesity. Over the past 30 years, as has been noted, obesity has been the subject of over 700 food-related health policies in England. Yet, while successive Governments have recognis…”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for securing this Adjournment debate, and he is speaking well on this important topic. We are constituency neighbours, and while Crewe station is in his constituency, it provides vital transport links and an important boost to the local economy for many people living in my constituency.…”

“I am looking specifically at the losses, but I do want to talk about some of the fraud separately. I will let you expand and then I can chip in on the two bits.”

“It would be helpful to come back to that. We have talked about why the accounts for the 2024 financial year have not been published yet, but do you anticipate losses will be at a similar level? Are you trying to understand it? This is being managed over time; where businesses might become insolvent, are the contracts y…”

“What the trend is showing is also interesting. Obviously, we have not seen the latest set of accounts. Do you expect instances of fraud to go up or down, or to remain relatively the same?”

“Focusing on the fraud aspect, again looking at the 2022-23 accounts as the latest that we have been able to see, the accounts state that “The British Council continues to make progress in detecting fraud across all areas of its operation as well as improving the counter-fraud culture and helping to keep further fraud t…”

“You are saying that fraud seems to be fairly consistent over time. Is there anything that you think the council could do further to reduce fraud and try to get it on a downward trend?”

“I have some questions about the losses that are recorded in the accounts. Looking at the 2022-23 accounts, they show the British Council recorded 356 instances of losses—where money was lost with no benefit to the organisation. Those losses resulted in £2.6 million being wasted in 2022-23. It looks like the largest of …”

“It sounds like there are quite a lot of different ways of communicating. It sounds like the Met Office is trying to feed in regularly with these various devolved agencies. Do you have any thoughts on whether that process could or should be streamlined or improved in any way?”

“Continuing on the theme of information sharing, Simon, I wonder whether you could let us know, during a flooding event, besides the colour of the weather warning, whether the Met Office passes on any other information to the devolved Welsh agencies. What is the process for any real-time updates that might be coming thr…”

“In hindsight, given the impact from Storm Bert, do you think that the yellow warning was the appropriate one to give?”

“It would be helpful to understand a bit more about the weather warning levels. Simon, for those who might not be familiar with the different levels of weather warnings, can you set out what a yellow weather warning means and how you came to the decision to issue one for Storm Bert?”