Speeches by Dewhirst.

“I could not have put it better myself. It is so important to get the balance right between ensuring a secure financial future for our unions and the availability of the game to the widest possible audience. A symbiotic, positive relationship between those things will ensure the healthy future of the game across the Uni…”

“I wanted to come to David in terms of Border Force priorities and where animal and plant disease incursion risk sits in your priorities and day-to-day work.”

“It is fair and reasonable to say that Border Force’s priority is guns, bombs, people, et cetera, and this does not fall at the top of the list.”

“Lucy, turning to operations in Dover, quite clearly, from what you have said, you are not resourced to the level you would ideally like to be. Could you perhaps give us a flavour of, if you could go to the Treasury tomorrow and ask for extra money and resources, what that would look like? What scale of resources do you…”

“Could you just confirm for the Committee that Coquelles would be the Eurotunnel?”

“I agree with the hon. Gentleman. It is important that we get the timings of the games and everything else right so that we optimise the broadcast number. As we have seen with various experiments in recent years, whether games take place on Friday nights or Sunday afternoons, rather than the traditional Saturday afterno…”

“1. Whether she has had discussions with the Welsh Government on the potential impact of the proposed visitor levy on the economy in Wales.”

“Hospitality businesses in my constituency of Bridlington and The Wolds are rightly concerned about Labour’s plans for a tourist tax in Wales, so will the Secretary of State confirm to the House today whether it is her Government’s policy to roll out such a tax across the United Kingdom?”

“It is starting to feel a bit like groundhog day, because the Government are clearly not listening to the entire agricultural economy, community or experts. Let us go back to the beginning and have a brief history lesson. The hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe) just mentioned that the Government said prior to t…”

“The Minister has just confirmed that the Treasury’s modelling is based on agricultural property relief and joint agricultural and business property relief claims, yet tax experts have said in evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee that many family farms will wrap their agricultural land into a si…”

“You said that bills have fallen in real terms and that the investment that you would like to have seen has not taken place. What has changed? Why are water companies suddenly coming forward with proposals asking for this huge investment?”

“Are we now in a better position in terms of achieving what we want to from that investment, although it is coming at a significant cost to the taxpayer?”

“Mike, has consumer and political pressure changed the dynamic there in terms of the investment required to make those changes?”

“Are we now in a better position in terms of achieving what we want to from that investment, although it is coming at a significant cost to the taxpayer?”

“Mike, has consumer and political pressure changed the dynamic there in terms of the investment required to make those changes?”

“You said that bills have fallen in real terms and that the investment that you would like to have seen has not taken place. What has changed? Why are water companies suddenly coming forward with proposals asking for this huge investment?”

“I thank the Minister for his reassurance to leaseholders, but what message does he have for freeholders, such as the residents of the Wolds View development in Driffield, who are trapped at the mercy of an unaccountable management company? Will he legislate to protect not just future homeowners but those currently stuc…”

“The outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany is a timely reminder of the livestock diseases that threaten the UK every day. The Minister has said that he will take every precaution available to him, so will he use this opportunity to permanently ban all personal imports of meat, and to ensure that both the public …”

“It is just a concern with these legal targets that if you do not have the resource to give to farmers to achieve them—if you take, for example, water quality, which will be quite a significant challenge in meeting the nitrogenous and phosphorus contribution and so on—farmers might end up getting blamed because they hav…”

“Yes. On data specifically, the report highlights that DEFRA maybe does not have access to all the data it needs to make timely decisions on some of these schemes. How confident are you when you are looking at the progress of each scheme that you are able to react in a timely manner and ensure the financial viability of…”