Speeches by Maynard.

“What can the Government do or not do that would help you?”

“Who is “we”?”

“Is this all necessarily state-led, or is it privately led?”

“Given that there is a state-led aspect, what do you want from the UK Government now?”

“Following on from the point about the import of hormone-treated beef, we have assurances from Trade Minister Douglas Alexander that it will remain illegal, but there seems to be no check at all on whether the beef coming into the UK on the back of this deal has been hormone-treated. Are there checks? If so, what are th…”

“Therefore, we have reasonable confidence that, if US beef is hormone-treated, we will know it?”

“We have just had a panel talking about iron and steel and saying how bad the tariffs are that the US has put on iron, aluminium and steel. Now we have a 19% tariff on the US coming in, and you are saying that is really good news and that we should keep that. I am trying to work out whether the UK is still a free-tradin…”

“Does the Secretary of State agree with Thames Water’s own expert adviser Teneo—on page 193 of the expert advice report—that the ultimate cost to the Government if the company goes into special administration will be zero?”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that we need to do more to protect section 22 community bus services such as West Oxfordshire Community Transport, which are now facing a mountain of bureaucracy to re-tender for routes that it built up from scratch against commercial bus operators that have all the abilities to pitch and win,…”

“I thank the right hon. Member for his leadership and hard work on the Committee. I welcome the move this week, and the set of aspirational statements of intent that go in the right direction. That is great, but does he agree that we should focus on the big stuff? Proportionately, the deal with India will get us 0.1% of…”

“The Minister and many hon. Members have mentioned teaching support staff, who make up half the school workforce but have no statutory pay body to represent them. Many support staff are left without a voice in discussions on their pay, terms and working conditions; I hear that time and again in schools throughout my con…”

“There seems to be a consensus across the House that the NHS dental contract is broken. That is the consensus across the country as well, including in my constituency. If there is one thing we can get out of the debate today, it is a timeline to which the Government will commit to fixing the situation and to bringing le…”

“Does the UK currently have the right approach to controlling the export of sensitive technologies? I am interested to hear your experiences in your two lines of work.”

“Is there anything worse than that on your radar screen? Apart from an IT attack on all five at once, what is at the top of your risk list?”

“Mr Pedersen, five port operators control those 120 ports, give or take. Is there any bigger risk of a co-ordinated IT attack on all five at once?”

“Does anyone on the panel have a particular view on our approach compared to the US CFIUS approach? What are the pros and cons, and what might we have an advantage over or disadvantage over compared to their approach?”

“The Times has reported that the UK has fewer than 10 tanks stationed in Estonia and that troop numbers have been cut from 1,650 in April 2022 to around 1,000 today. By comparison, Germany has 5,000 troops on track to be stationed in Lithuania by 2027. Is this correct, and is it a concern for the Minister?”

“I too thank and commend the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) for securing the debate. It has been a pleasure to work with her and we are all in awe of her single-minded relentlessness on this topic, from which we can all learn. I have a similar story. Two years ago, I received a call from my …”

“Following up on that one, if there is a global transaction, so a large global company is buying another global company, it has all sorts of regulatory rulings to clear in all sorts of jurisdictions. Where does the UK sit in terms of speed? Speed counts. Where is the UK in terms of the turnaround time or something like …”

“Alexandra, maybe from the Control Risks side, thinking of it that way, what do you see? How do you live that?”