Speeches by Coghlan.

“Aghion and Howitt’s endogenous growth theory has shown that policies such as education, R&D and innovation drive productivity enhancements, but they take longer than five years, generally, to come in. Is that a major consideration here? Obviously, against that is also the five-year electoral cycle.”

“There is one final question from me for you both. Should the Treasury be braver in disagreeing with the OBR on growth forecasts? In the UK, as I am sure in the Netherlands, it gets castigated in the media if it disagrees with the OBR. The OBR is not God, as Professor Elmendorf said earlier.”

“What timeframes do you use in the CPB?”

“How do you respond to criticism from the IPPR that the OBR does not adequately capture the second-round dynamic impacts of public investment, such as where public capital crowds in private investment?”

“Of course, crowding-in can be much higher than 30%.”

“The OBR will only score supply-side measures if they increase or decrease potential output by 0.1% by the fifth year of the forecast. Do you think that that is reasonable? What do you do in the Netherlands?”

“Has it ever been the case that the OBR’s threshold for scoring growth policy has resulted in the Government delaying or even blocking investment decisions because it does not get the benefit of them in the OBR forecasts?”

“I should declare an interest as an alumna of Harvard Kennedy School.”

“You might have a number of policies that individually are below 0.1%, but in aggregate—”

“Park home owners in my constituency tell me that site owners have pressured them into selling, in order to get that 10% commission. Does my hon. Friend agree that that is wrong and that the 10% commission should be abolished?”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“T6. It has been widely reported in the press that the Chancellor is rightly considering issuing defence bonds. I know that the Chancellor agrees with me on the value of defence research and development. Does she or the Minister agree that defence bonds could be a powerful way to increase R&D and raise economic grow…”

“On Friday the United States agreed to extend the partial lift on sanctions on Russian oil exports. Does the Minister agree that this helps President Putin to fund his illegal and murderous war in Ukraine, and that it works directly against the national security interests of both Ukraine and the United Kingdom?”

“5. What steps her Department is taking to increase financial pressure on the Russian Federation.”

“I thank the right hon. Member for his intervention and I completely disagree. Think about the autistic boy I was talking about at the start of my speech. He has been out of school for seven years and his father has quit his job to look after him. We have lost a lifetime’s earnings from that person and we have the costs…”

“I first want to address the comments from the right hon. Member for Salisbury (John Glen). I have enormous respect for him, but his underlying argument is flawed, because there is the same number of SEND children now as there was in 2010 and in 1978. The question is why the number fell so much up to 2016 and then rose,…”

“I entirely agree. An under-resourced officer can still determine need, still issue an EHCP and still be transparent about what cannot yet be delivered. That, at least, is honest. I know that many council officers do the right thing, but when a council officer commits misconduct that results in an avoidable death, why a…”

“I should declare an interest. Before I became an MP, I was finance director of an organisation, Access—The Foundation for Social Investment—that used dormant assets. Ms Pender, you said that a strategy alone will not deliver change. You just alluded to the crowding in from other market participants. The industry, Gover…”

“Mr Rathi, to what extent, if at all, has the FCA been involved in the separate investigations into Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?”

“Are cases of alleged market abuse involving high-profile individuals or politicians especially difficult for the FCA to deal with?”