Speeches by Morello.

“To link up the two points that have been made by Fleur and Aphra, you have a system based on self-declaration and you are dealing with somebody with a track record of not declaring. To Fleur’s point, in that situation, faced with somebody with a track record of not being 100% transparent on their conflicts of interest,…”

“And that still makes you qualified for this appointment. But maintaining the relationship afterwards suddenly makes you unsuitable for the appointment. All this could have been avoided if at any point anyone had turned around and said, “Do you know what? Actually, let’s not appoint somebody who has a really close, know…”

“The problem that I am dealing with and, I suspect, a lot of people out there are struggling with is the idea that the emails constituted materially different information that would have resulted in Lord Mandelson not being appointed. I certainly look at this, and hopefully any rational person would, and say: you have s…”

“Even if we are talking in the general, the specific in this case is that the Prime Minister did receive a report that highlighted that relationship, and it was up to him to make a decision based on the information as he read it.”

“I appreciate you are talking in the general, but to the specifics, your own letter says that the due diligence report included reference to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And you also confirmed that the report goes to the appointing Minister, who in this case is the Prime Minister.”

“Just so we are clear, the due diligence report that was produced by the Cabinet Office goes to the appointing Minister, which in this case is the Prime Minister. So the Prime Minister received that report, which should have contained all the information pertaining to Lord Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, …”

“Just to clarify this point, you say that you have multiple people who have been brought in externally as appointments. Out of all these appointments, how many of them have a public track record of not declaring conflicts of interest? If that is a systemic problem, you have a problem in the system. If this is a one-off,…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member on securing this important debate. He is being uncharacteristically modest in downplaying his involvement in setting up NILA; I congratulate him on that, too. He mentioned the volunteers. I wanted to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the volunteers in Lyme Regis who have responded t…”

“I appreciate it. Thank you all. Euan Stainbank and Jim Allister made representations.”

“Many moons ago, I was listening to a futurologist on the radio, a job that seems to involve mainly sitting on beanbags. He was talking about autonomous vehicles and was asked, “Is there anything that you think people should be thinking about on autonomous vehicles?” He said, “We’ve got to get used to the idea that gran…”

“Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you to all the Committee for the opportunity to present this application. I thank my co-sponsors on both sides of the House for the cross-party support this debate has secured. The publication of the Independent Water Commission’s report, released just days before Parliament rose f…”

“I assume it would be DEFRA.”

“I will take a steer from the Committee as to what is most appropriate. The key element is that MPs get an opportunity to debate this.”

“No, I do not believe so, but I will caveat that by saying that my parliamentary assistant is on leave this week, so I am very much flying blind on a lot of this.”

“I think I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I am afraid that I do not agree that increasing reporting burdens on industry is a bad thing. Every industry will argue that reporting is onerous. The liturgy starts with water companies. Companies will hide behind not having to report. On the need to move forwar…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and I want to use this opportunity to beg a favour of him, although I appreciate that the issue I want to address might not be the responsibility of this Minister. My hon. Friend has rightly highlighted the issue of the collection of patients. However, there is also the issue of th…”

“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement on the adequacy of Jhoots as a pharmacy provider.”

“I would be grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker, if you could pass on my thanks to Mr Speaker for granting this urgent question. I thank the Minister for his response. The collapse of service provision in some places, the constant closures in others and the general governance at Jhoots pharmacy, which operates 150 branches a…”

“Sustainable aviation fuel offers us a route to decarbonise one of the most carbon-intensive industries and to secure the future of our aviation sector in a way that is compatible with our net zero goals. Climate change remains the greatest challenge of our time. It is an existential threat to us, our children and our g…”

“I thank the hon. Member for her intervention. She managed to make a detailed speech sound like a backhanded compliment. I do not disagree with her point that we have several reporting standards, and my only counter-argument would be that I do not believe there can be too much transparency. If that results in informatio…”