Speeches by Maynard.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Twigg, and I thank the hon. Member for Exmouth and Exeter East (David Reed) for securing this important debate. I also thank my hon. Friends the Members for Sutton and Cheam (Luke Taylor), for Eastbourne (Josh Babarinde) and for Yeovil (Adam Dance) for highlighting all…”

“I have been here for 17 months. We could rehash things from 14 or 17 years ago. I believe that in 2009 the Labour Government sought to take a 30% stake out of the Royal Mail, but I am not interested in going back through that because we are where we are. Let me try to finish my speech, and I will talk about where I thi…”

“I welcome the new legal adviser service as a first step towards levelling the horribly unequal access to legal services available to victims as compared with suspects. However, only £3 million has been provided a year for the next two years to fund that service. Given the record highs of more than 12,500 sexual offence…”

“2. What steps his Department is taking through the criminal justice system to help tackle violence against women and girls.”

“The Bill, and the Budget it derives from, demonstrates clearly that the Chancellor has implemented stealth tax grabs that will hit some of the lowest paid the hardest, through extending a freeze on income tax thresholds and the national insurance contributions increases which suppress employment and wages. It is full o…”

“I completely agree. The stress of that is horrific, so the more it can function effectively would be appreciated. The Government have said that people whose only source of income is the state pension will not pay any income tax over this Parliament, but no details have been provided on how they will be protected. I ask…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for speaking up on this matter. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) feels very strongly about it as well. We do not really understand why the Government have decided to go with those fixed static thresholds. Everybody recognises that agricultural land v…”

“I speak on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, and the shadow Minister’s audacity in talking about a “high-tax, low-growth doom loop” is pretty high. With regard to this Bill, I ask the Government to look again at four things. I will go through them quickly, and then I will sit down. I ask the Government to provide more d…”

“Will the hon. and learned Gentleman please remind the House what last year’s growth rate was for Northern Ireland compared with for the whole UK? I think it might have been three times higher.”

“Great—even better. What are your hopes after that? You have the rest of this Parliament. What are the Labour Government hoping to achieve in Europe if we get those put away? What are your goals after that?”

“Just taking those three and adding in the youth experience, youth mobility and ETS, if the teams—DBT and others—get those over the line in the next six, 12 or 18 months, which I guess is probably your goal—”

“The third one was IEM—the internal energy market—or electricity market.”

“Do you have a number?”

“Sticking with SAFE for a moment, Canada is rumoured to have got into SAFE for a grand total of €10 million. We had an offer price of €6 billion. What is going on there, and what is our way through on that?”

“Can you give us an overview of where we are now with regards to negotiations on SAFE, SPS and the internal energy market?”

“So is it sort of entirely unknown? Is there any public information available on how they calculate what?”

“Can I ask a practical question? With the contribution and cohesion fund payments, is there a clear table that says, “Okay, if it’s going to be this, look down here and here it is”, or is it completely a black box: “The EU says you have to pay this”?”

“The appellate body is essentially defunct—stop me if that is too harsh a term—so there are quite a lot of mutterings about the Cameroon meetings. Could you scope out what the UK is thinking in terms of how you would like the WTO to look if there were changes? What reforms do you think are necessary to make it a functio…”

“If we got business travel, mutual recognition and sectors done, is that the apex—the best we can hope for? Or are there other things beyond that which make sense and will help trade between us and the EU?”

“Are we able to have broad categories to say, “We are still not sanctioning metals or fertiliser”?”