Speeches by Maynard.

“Switzerland has a carve-out for gene editing.”

“Is there a trade-off here? I understand that we would really like this bit or that bit, and that it is very important for the oat sector to have this or that, but the EU is probably not going to be thinking in that level of granularity, given the super-tanker that it is. We have things such as the UK-EU common SPS area…”

“I thank my hon. Friend. [Interruption.] Would you like to intervene?”

“I guess we will have to check our social media accounts.”

“My apologies, Ms Ghani.”

“Farmers up and down the country should be really proud of the campaign that has forced the Government to rethink the completely short-sighted and ill-thought-out policy that has threatened the future of family farms up and down the country. I congratulate them on the result that they have secured. I think everyone in t…”

“rose—”

“That is a very good question, but £100 million is 0.1% of £1.23 trillion. In materiality, it is important to think of it in that range. I do not think this is the way of going about it. I ask the Government to consider voting in favour of amendment 3, which would remove the transition period in respect of the changes t…”

“I very much agree with my hon. Friend. The Lib Dems welcome the U-turn by the Government in December raising the allowance to £2.5 million and welcome the change announced in the Budget permitting the allowance to be transferable between spouses and civil partners. But as the Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Af…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Ian Roome) for securing this important debate and everybody who has spoken in it. There is a very strong message coming through about how much rural communities need this relief and how much they suffer. As my…”

“My hon. Friend speaks to the point. Of course, those people have been dead for many centuries, but we believe it is worth being able to access that information, and at the moment it is not accessible in most cases. That is something we really want to change. I look to Denmark’s registry-first legal architecture, with m…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Western. I thank the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Chris Evans) for securing the debate, and I thank Ellie for all her work, as well as Hugh and the others who are pushing very hard on this issue—many thanks indeed. I want to try to make this debate a bit broader in t…”

“We have interest costs of 9.75% being paid. We have massive advisory fees coming out of the company. All the class A creditors’ legal fees—£15 million a month, give or take—were being paid for by Thames Water. To say that this is not all hitting the customers is not true. Who else is paying for this, if it is not ultim…”

“Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”

“During that process, did you have a named person that you could talk to, or was it all by letter or by email? How did it work practically?”

“Thank you for being here today, Mr Patterson. It is a difficult position to be in. I take the point about Wyn Williams, and I think deferring to that is reasonable. The Chair’s point about the scale of Fujitsu—it is £49 billion of market cap. This company can afford to pay a very substantial chunk. This whole problem w…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Clive Jones) for securing this fantastic debate. I also thank the Members in the room for all the work they have done, and the Minister for her engagement, particularly with the Brain Cancer Justice team. I really appreciate it. My sister Georgie received a glioblastoma …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. West Oxfordshire is very much ground zero for Thames Water. We have the Thames itself, the Evenlode and the Windrush. West Oxfordshire district council has done great work in going after Thames Water. We have WASP—Windrush Against Sewage Pollution—and we, as a…”

“I concur with those views from the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Richard Tice), but can the Minister confirm that those discussions with class A creditors will not involve forgiving the company for its fines?”

“Will the Minister give way?”