Speeches by Young.

“A small farmer with a farm near Frampton Cotterell, in my Thornbury and Yate constituency, highlighted the fact that, as well as high land costs, some of the machinery needed to farm that land costs upwards of £100,000. Does my hon. Friend agree that for farmers to have the confidence to invest in the modern, sustainab…”

“Q7. Following the earlier question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Ed Davey), I want to raise an equally troubling case. My constituent retired from the police force to care for his wife, working a part-time job to help pay the bills. As his earnings were not consistent, there were times…”

“In my constituency, we have thriving community shops offering a range of services beyond selling goods. For example, Tytherington has an outreach post office, and people can pick up their prescriptions at Hawkesbury Stores in Hawkesbury Upton. Does my hon. Friend agree that for many villages, volunteer-run shops are vi…”

“You have already talked a lot about demand management, so we can probably assume that you all think that it should form a larger part of the policy mix under this Government than under the last one. NESO’s report to Government said that levels of demand flexibility could increase four to five times by 2030. Do you thin…”

“It is almost like you could use humans.”

“In what sense? In the rewards they offer or in the ambition?”

“How confident are you that the smart metering will be in place by 2028?”

“Are there any examples internationally where demand has successfully been manipulated to reduce energy consumption and therefore bills of consumers?”

“Taking advantage at the moment involves the consumers manually deciding that they need to take advantage. Do you see further scope for automating this as you digitalise? You can automate things and therefore people will not have to think about it. At the moment, they have to do quite a lot of thinking.”

“You have already talked a lot about demand management, so we can probably assume that you all think that it should form a larger part of the policy mix under this Government than under the last one. NESO’s report to Government said that levels of demand flexibility could increase four to five times by 2030. Do you thin…”

“It is almost like you could use humans.”

“Taking advantage at the moment involves the consumers manually deciding that they need to take advantage. Do you see further scope for automating this as you digitalise? You can automate things and therefore people will not have to think about it. At the moment, they have to do quite a lot of thinking.”

“Are there any examples internationally where demand has successfully been manipulated to reduce energy consumption and therefore bills of consumers?”

“In what sense? In the rewards they offer or in the ambition?”

“How confident are you that the smart metering will be in place by 2028?”

“One of my constituents waited two years from the onset of severe symptoms to receive a cancer diagnosis, and another 10 weeks to have the type of cancer identified, at which point it was incurable. One of the key failings in this case seems to be the disconnect between her reporting the symptoms to her GP and getting t…”

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“The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation has told me that, aside from funding, motor neurone disease research needs a better regulatory framework to encourage investment into this country and to make it easier for UK citizens to take part in overseas trials. That research benefits not only the one in 300 who will develop MND bu…”

“Following up on that point, does the hon. Gentleman agree that, in our current system, people vote for what can actually be very loose coalitions? Our electoral system forces us to have very large coalitions in order to form a Government, but voters do not know which parts of those coalitions they are going to get afte…”

“I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman remembers how many Prime Ministers there were between the last election and the one before, and whether voters knew what they were getting at the start of 2019.”