Speeches by Maynard.

“This is about pressure. If we know that we have secured this debate, and they know we have secured this debate ahead of 4 February, we are more likely to get a better result out of them. That is the key message.”

“I would just say one thing: the national cancer plan is out in early February. My beg is that, if you are able to squeeze us in before that, it would make more of a difference than after that. If that is at all possible, that is my request.”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered reform of gambling regulation. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. We are here to talk about gambling regulation and to discuss the scale of the problem. There is clear evidence that current regulation of the gambling industry is not adequate to …”

“I fully agree and will cover that shortly. The Lancet commission concluded that “gambling poses a threat to public health, the control of which requires a substantial expansion and tightening of gambling industry regulation”. So what should we do? First, we should limit the impact of gambling advertising, marketing and…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“I thank the Minister for that. I believe we have covered everything. I appreciate everybody’s being here. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House has considered reform of gambling regulation.”

“I thank the Minister and the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr French), as well as all the Members who attended the debate; and you, Sir Desmond, for chairing it. I appreciate the sensible, fair and respectful way that we have handled the debate and the shared recognition that gambling can …”

“Yes, I welcome it. The OBR has marked down economic growth for each of the next four years, which is bad news. We have a ballooning debt, which now sits at £2.9 trillion. Our debt costs have tripled in the last five years—yes, that is the Conservatives’ fault—and our Government debt is now more expensive than Italy’s. …”

“This is a Budget driven far more by political calculation than by the economic realities that the country faces. The Chancellor has an enormous majority—on paper, at least—and the country desperately needs change, but we now have a second Budget in which the Government have failed to demonstrate that they have any big …”

“I thank the Chair of the Select Committee for his help and work on this issue. I want to ask his opinion on the efficacy of our arms export control regime. We had two sessions in which we were looking into the F-35 in Gaza, and essentially it seems like the UK has outsourced its arms export controls to the Americans fo…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle (Mr Morrison) for securing this excellent debate. I want to seek the Minister’s help with the case of my Witney constituent, Bill Maddocks. Bill was an on-call firefighter at Witney for 22 years and contracted covid at work, while seconded on a whole-time contract to assist…”

“Comparing our capital markets in the UK to where they were 20 years ago, it is not a very pretty picture. You have set out some of that and been very polite doing it, but let us say that there are not great returns. You have a fiduciary duty to look after your clients. The demand for capital has been low. Move to passi…”

“New small modular reactors have real potential to help reduce our reliance on foreign gas and bring down energy bills, as well as bringing a welcome boost to jobs and investment in Anglesey. SMRs should be where the focus is when it comes to nuclear, not big, expensive nuclear power stations that cost multiples more an…”

“Let us talk about trade, Madam Deputy Speaker. I find it extraordinary if we look at the future. I think it was Stephen Bush in the Financial Times who talked about the permanent lobotomy that the Tory party needs to have when talking about Brexit. If we are talking about getting money into the Exchequer, let us get ou…”

“Will the hon. Member acknowledge that debt has risen from £0.5 trillion to £2.9 trillion from 2005 to 2026, forecast to March? That is nearly six times as much, and the great majority of that happened under the Conservatives’ watch. Yes, we can talk about covid, but covid is a very small portion of that—about £0.7 tril…”

“Let us talk about trade—”

“I have already said this, and will say it again: I absolutely—and I speak on behalf of my colleagues—expect the Chancellor to stand by her promises.”

“Just because we have always done things a certain way does not mean that there is not room for fresh thinking, a more collaborative approach and greater ambition. Realistically, if we are going to repair the economic damage of the last few years, we need fresh thinking and new ideas.”

“Okay, can I just respond to my colleague chuntering in the background? He keeps saying “the OBR”. We are Parliament. We have a responsibility to scrutinise the Budget, and I believe that we, as a Parliament, should be doing that properly, line by line and taking out what is wasted—[Interruption.] I would do it tomorrow…”

“indicated dissent.”