Speeches by Coghlan.

“That would be helpful. Thank you. In your letter to the Committee, you highlighted that budgetary constraints have been an issue. To what extent did budgetary constraints contribute to the problems with the labour force survey?”

“By “NHS data” what exactly do you mean? Do you mean that, if I am applying for incapacity benefits, I then get my doctor to sign me off and that, arguably, it is the same thing, or do you mean more than that?”

“Is that now being released?”

“As part of your financial inclusion strategy, are you looking at innovations in financial inclusion in developing countries? I am thinking specifically of east Africa with M-PESA, with the use of mobile banking to include people, using very simple, non-smartphone technology around mobile payments to bring people in who…”

“Every headteacher in Dorking has told me that early intervention is vital for our special needs children. The London Business School told me that hiring people with special educational needs can be a source of competitive advantage for companies. Does the Minister agree that those principles could be the basis of a mor…”

“11. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that SEND provision is adequately funded.”

“I would like to see slightly more humility from all political parties on the subject of defence spending. [Interruption.] Thank you. The Minister is right that defence spending was cut under the coalition, but we are in a different world now, with a great power attacking Europe. I would also like to inform him that one…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member on her excellent chairing of our Committee and on this excellent report. Given that the Office for Value for Money has only 20 staff and only 12 in post, whereas the NAO has 1,000, I share her concerns about whether it will be able to deliver value for money. What additional steps would s…”

“One specific tax reform that I have been reading about from London Business School research is allowing full expensing of intellectual property transactions, non-R&D ones, because that incentivises companies to import existing innovation and has a faster pay-off than R&D. Is that something that you have considered or s…”

“Minister or Mr York-Smith, are you able to give me specific examples of where you will reform the tax code to boost economic growth, rather than to raise revenue?”

“How do you measure that the changes in tax revenues are a result of changes that you are making at HMRC versus changes in economic growth leading to higher tax revenues?”

“Thank you, Minister. More broadly on the Budget, given 30-year gilts hit the highest level since 1988 last week, how worried are you that increases in the tax yield from the changes in the Budget do not materialise and that you break fiscal rules? How are you monitoring this risk?”

“Do you think that the private sector will prefer lower rates of tax or that stability? Which you think is more important to the private sector?”

“I pay tribute to my hon. Friend as Sara’s MP for raising the horror that has taken place. Of course, I agree that data sharing between public authorities is vital to ensure that such a case does not happen again. But it is not enough, and, alone, it will not prevent the catastrophic and systematic negligence of Surrey …”

“I fully agree with my hon. Friend. Surrey county council failed to abide by existing legislation, so how on earth are we meant to believe that new legislation alone will be enough? I share his concerns about Claire. I know from my constituents that there are children in Surrey who are at risk right now. That is why I a…”

“As a father of three little girls, I find much to welcome in the Bill. Part 1 speaks to improving children’s social care and I particularly support the provisions on accommodation for looked-after children. The whole country was saddened and shocked by the murder of Surrey child Sara Sharif. Sadly, there are other stor…”

“Many of my constituents have been affected by flooding overnight, but it has been particularly bad in Horley, where for the second time in recent months people’s homes have been flooded by raw sewage. Will the Minister meet me to discuss what can be done to hold Thames Water to account in operating its sewage works—par…”

“I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mike Martin) for securing this vital debate. There are many veterans in this Chamber; one in nine Liberal Democrat MPs has served in the armed forces. We know the price of freedom—many of us have seen it written on the grave of a friend. There are tens of thousan…”

“Yes; education is needed. Finally, Mr Alder, with this lazy capital, you were saying we should put it to more productive use. There is a tension between whether that is boosting UK investment versus international investment. Obviously, the FTSE 100 has significantly underperformed over the last five years or so. How is…”

“Briefly on the point that Ms Blake made about lack of trust, perhaps one of the reasons for that is the fear of firm failure that you mentioned earlier. Is there more that needs to be done in terms of protecting consumers’ investments and money in the event of investment firms’ failure, or more that you could do to rea…”