Speeches by Maynard.

“I want to park compound settlements. Anecdotally, I have been told—I do not know whether this is true—that there have been two arrests in the last 15 years. Obviously, that was under a different Administration, but would you mind checking and telling us how many individuals have been arrested on that basis?”

“Going back to the pipeline in the package, as per your announcement yesterday, targeting one of the world’s largest oil pipeline companies, PJSC Transneft, which is responsible for transporting over 80% of Russian oil exports—this is the ninth package. Why was that not in the first package? I do not understand. That is…”

“My question is to the Minister and Joanne: HMRC is, as I understand it, responsible for criminal sanctions enforcement, and one of the legal bases for that is section 68 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, or CEMA. Subsection (2) covers the “intent to evade”. That is the more serious offence where a person i…”

“I am going to ask, “How long is a piece of string?” because there is a war on and there is quite a lot of information in that. You might not be able to validate everything perfectly, but there might be enough circumstantial evidence to say, “Well, this is a bad enough actor that we want to be stopping this.” Do you hav…”

“I take your point about journalists being useful. You have probably seen “Bypassing the Blockade: How Hong Kong Feeds European Technology Into Russia’s War in Ukraine” by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. Very helpfully, there is a list of UK exports going through to Russia. Even more helpfully, there …”

“Just looking a little bit further than maritime services, we have a big services economy in finance and insurance. How confident are you in shutting down the relationships on finance between Russia and UK, which have been very substantial? How much is that being shut down?”

“We talked about this in the Chamber a couple of weeks ago. India is importing oil and gas from Russia, and it has a number of refineries—I think four out of five are state-owned, with the fifth being Reliance. It is processing its oil and gas into petrochemical products and exporting them, including to the UK. Essentia…”

“Why?”

“That is the Europeans, but what about the Americans? Does that mean we would not do it without the Europeans, but we are okay to do it without the Americans?”

“Is the UK supportive of a full maritime services ban on Russian-related products or not?”

“On the point about passionately defending independence, a consultation is out at the moment, I understand, to take down the independent panel. That does not sit well in terms of passionately defending independence.”

“A very fair answer. We possibly have strategic market status coming down the pipe for Amazon with cloud services. There are also digital advertising, online marketplace and e-commerce out there as well as other possibilities. As was widely reported, and our Chair just mentioned, there was not a single veto of a merger …”

“Let me jog your memory. In 2012-13, the Office of Fair Trading, the CMA's predecessor, investigated Amazon for suspected anti-competitive practices related to price parity. In 2022, there was an investigation into Amazon Marketplace. A fake reviews investigation was undertaken from 2021 to 2025—that took four years. Th…”

“Okay, but what about Amazon UK's interactions during that time? Do you want to add anything else there?”

“I start by declaring an of interest. I used to work in M&A and I founded a business in 1996. I still own a stake in it, though I have no role or responsibility in it. It is called BDA Partners. It is in my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Doug, you have a very impressive resumé. Many congratulatio…”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I will not burden the House with too long a speech. There are a lot of issues with the Government’s and the country’s economic policymaking process, but there are good arguments for reducing the number of fiscal events, which create artificial cliff edges. However, I note the concer…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Barker. I thank the hon. Member for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) for introducing this important debate so well and with such balance—I really appreciate it. I am proud and relieved that we live in a country with some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Obvious…”

“It has been a very painful path to get to this point, but I simply want to welcome what the Government are bringing in. Reversing the decision on the two-child limit will lift 540,000 children out of absolute poverty, and it is unquestionably the right thing to do—certainly for those children and for their families, bu…”

“Yes, I am. I congratulate the Chair and members of the Work and Pensions Committee on doing all that good work; many thanks to them. Assessing the wider issues may encourage the Government to take steps beyond this welcome but narrow Bill to support children and their families who are struggling to get by from week to …”

“In January, President Trump announced he would like Greenland, and if it was not handed over there would be tariffs inflicted on eight NATO allies. Thankfully he backed away from that, but God knows what might happen tomorrow or next month. I am a huge fan of the US. I lived there for nine years and my three children w…”