Speeches by Coghlan.

“The hon. Member just said that foreign policy should not be made by referendum. Does he disagree, then, with article 1(2) of the UN charter—that the right to self-determination is a core principle in international relations and that we should therefore have a referendum for Chagos?”

“At a time when the cost of living is so high, does my hon. Friend agree that the cost of maintaining and operating the Diego Garcia military base and military operations must be evaluated by the House against the expenditure of public funds made under the treaty each financial year?”

“I entirely agree with my hon. Friend on the importance of having a right of referendum. I have had Chagossian constituents contact me with their outrage about the compounding of injustice in the new treaty. How realistic does my hon. Friend think it is to find people eligible to vote in a potential referendum, given th…”

“For my sins, I was a Deloitte auditor in New York in 2007, auditing collateralised debt obligation models for a major investment bank—one year before it all collapsed. I can assure you that I didn’t have a clue what was in those models. I am pretty sure that nobody in the bank did, except possibly the maths PhDs who bu…”

“I guess, from what I am hearing, that we are doomed anyway, right? As in, there is not a lot you can do about this. You can monitor these risks, but efficient markets mean it is going to happen anyway. As long as credit markets are not being frozen, like what happened in 2008, a crash is a good thing over the long run—…”

“I welcome the Government’s progress on the frozen Russian assets, but it is disappointing that, as yet, they are allocated only to recovery and not military capability, because Russia is spending $40 billion more than Ukraine and her Western allies on the war in Ukraine. The courage of Ukrainian forces has brought Russ…”

“Helen Miller, can I come back to your earlier statement that if spending is stuck, that leaves tax rises? On this whole debate about productivity, there has been a huge body of economic research in recent years about how innovation and technology can drive productivity; there has just been a Nobel prize in economics aw…”

“This is a question for Dan Neidle. Full disclosure: I am pushing this myself. The Times reported yesterday that the Treasury is looking at allowing full expensing of patent purchases in this space. There is London Business School research showing that has 10 to 20 times the pay-off of what Jeremy Hunt did with physical…”

“Ruth, do you have any comments on that? Relatedly, overall Government R&D spend is not materially rising, so how can we expect them to improve productivity?”

“To push back, a lot of the increase in defence spending is actually on R&D. If a lot of the issue right now is the OBR potentially downgrading productivity forecasts, and therefore increasing the fiscal black hole, then surely if the Government successfully argue that they can defer some of these productivity decreases…”

“I commend the hon. Members for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh) and for Rossendale and Darwen (Andy MacNae) and the right hon. Member for Godalming and Ash (Sir Jeremy Hunt) for calling this important debate. I have seen at first hand the commitment of the right hon. Member for Godalming and Ash to these issues, and I …”

“There is a 12-year-old child in Dorking who is autistic and has had two suicide attempts, the most recent within the past four weeks. They do not have an EHCP. As the Chair acknowledges in the report, there are serious concerns about local authority governance. I have received 120 family testimonies from Surrey and 650…”

“I entirely agree, because by the age of three a child has 1,000 trillion brain connections, but that declines to 500 trillion by adolescence. That is why the earlier the intervention, the more effective the outcome and the lower the total cost. That is even before we consider the cost of a parent who has to leave work …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Allin-Khan. In Dorking the other day, a mum called Jenny came to see me about her daughters, Isabelle and Sienna. They are severely learning disabled, epileptic, blind, non-verbal and tube fed. Isabelle and Sienna have difficult lives, but they thrive when they are …”

“That is why I specifically mentioned the fiscal rules. If you suspended the sale now, that would create an extra £18 billion of headroom under the fiscal rules, and of course maybe that would come through later under—”

“There is a lot of concern in the news at the moment about high bond yields. I would be curious to know your views about why the UK currently has higher bond yields than France, even though France’s debt-to-GDP ratio is higher and the French Government is at risk of collapse.”

“Governor, the OBR implies that stopping QT could create £18 billion a year of extra fiscal headroom for the Chancellor and save us all significant taxes as taxpayers. Do you agree? I understand that considering fiscal issues is outside the remit of the Bank of England, but you are about to set QT for the rest of the ye…”

“From what you have all said, with the exception of Professor Taylor, if I am reading you correctly, I would say that it appears that perhaps growth and inflation risks have decoupled. I am curious about your views on whether the UK is stuck in stagflation.”

“But financial market expectations of inflation are consistently higher than the expectations of the Bank. Does that ultimately undermine the credibility of the MPC?”

“Does anyone else have any views on stagflation?”