Speeches by Smith.

“Given the horrifying events in Syria over the weekend, does my hon. Friend agree that the time for warm words from the Syrian Government on protecting minorities has passed, and that actions to safeguard religious minorities such as Alawites and Christians are required? If so, what more can the United Kingdom do to pro…”

“I am hearing that that is what has been said. My question is, if it is and if we have something old, like the Historical Enquiries Team, whether that leaves us with a judicial and legal process with an indefinite end as our way to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.”

“I may be pre-empting some questions I have later, but just on your last reflection there, Ms Kilpatrick, it seems to me that in a lot of this discussion people are talking past each other. It is not just in this conversation today, but in many of the other sessions that we have had and the various approaches. Feel free…”

“That is exactly my point: that it is new and it is not just a legal process.”

“That confirms my understanding. Thank you.”

“You do not have confidence in the information recovery function of ICRIR and you want something old, not new. Reconciliation should be taken out of the architecture of ICRIR. That is what I am hearing. Does that leave us with a judicial and legal process with an indefinite end as our way to deal with the legacy of the …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your stewardship, Mr Twigg. Similarly, in my constituency, the county council has built just 15,000 homes since 2013 and only 3,700 affordable homes, yet 2,000 people are in urgent need of housing. I am also delighted by this Government’s commitment to building 1.5 million homes, and I a…”

“rose—”

“I thank the hon. Member for securing the debate. He mentioned the Square Mile there. In my constituency of North Northumberland—the third largest in England—there are eight branches in 2,100 square kilometres. That has gone down by 64% since 2015. I want to highlight a point raised elsewhere in the debate. Banking hubs…”

“I agree with my hon. Friend that these are some of the challenges our farmers are facing. As these examples show, the value of the land often bears no relation to the limited cash flow and the profit that is made. It is reassuring that a few tweaks to the policy would remove most of the pressure on family farms while m…”

“Our farmers are facing a great many challenges, including being very over-leveraged in debt, and we should consider that. I spoke to one farmer whose land is valued at £16 million, so their new inheritance tax liability will be about £2.8 million, but they make just £96,000 profit per year. There are several examples o…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I have held dozens and dozens of conversations with farmers across my constituency of North Northumberland. It has become clear to me that they welcome the principle of this policy, which is to stop the super-wealthy from minimising their tax liabilities by…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his scoring system, but can he confirm whether he was part of the last Government, which failed to get £300 million of subsidies to farmers out the door?”

“This is fundamentally a very resource-intensive activity. We are talking about huge quantities of meat that need to be detained, processed, bagged and tagged, and then we have to get rid of it in a safe and secure manner. Of course, more resources of any kind, whether that is Border Force resource or my colleagues from…”

“The collaboration is not the issue. We work collaboratively with port health authorities—”

“Good morning and, again, thank you for the opportunity to come along today and talk to you about the issues at hand. My name is David Smith. I am a regional director with Border Force and I am responsible for the south-east region. The south-east region includes the port of Dover and the inland border facility at Sevin…”

“Border Force works with DEFRA as its strategic partner to apply the controls that are currently in place on personal imports. Border Force is responsible for the frontline interdiction of personal imports. We do that as part of our wider role. There are a whole range of prohibitions and restrictions that we manage at t…”

“That is a very good question. No operational leader would sit here and tell you they could not use more resource, but the border is a complex beast. We have a lot of checks to do at the border and we do them in a very confined infrastructure, with limited resources, but we do them in a way that is structured in the sam…”

“We are talking specifically about Dover, but I will cover more generally as well. I recognise everything that Lucy has said. While my colleagues from PHA are not available all the time in Dover, Border Force maintains its levels of checks. In that process, we detect meat that we deal with. There are two ways to deal wi…”

“I cannot answer that question.”