Speeches by Chowns.

“Like other Members, I begin by paying tribute to our hospices and to everyone who works and indeed volunteers in palliative and end of life care, providing such amazing support to patients and their loved ones around their death—that most difficult time of life—and helping people to have a good death. As many Members h…”

“Two days before Christmas, the Government pulled the plug on the community ownership fund. This is a devastating blow to organisations, charities and community groups across the country, such as Much Marcle community shop, Pencombe parish council, which wanted to buy the local pub, and the local disability charity ECHO…”

“It is a pleasure to speak under your chairship, Sir Jeremy. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Norwich North (Alice Macdonald) for securing this debate on such an important topic and to all the colleagues who have spoken in this debate so eloquently and passionately. We have heard devastating statistics about the imp…”

“I could keep asking questions all day, but we probably need to move on, don’t we?”

“Could I pass the question on to Dr Schratzberger and Mr Evans as well?”

“This segues nicely into my question, which is, what is our current state of understanding of the UK’s marine environment? You have talked about 27% of the seabed being mapped. Can you expand on that a little—the marine environment as a whole, beyond mapping, including the biotic environment and so forth? Are there spec…”

“I could keep asking questions all day, but we probably need to move on, don’t we?”

“That is really helpful and clear, thank you. Mr Evans, would you like to add anything?”

“That is really helpful and clear, thank you. Mr Evans, would you like to add anything?”

“This segues nicely into my question, which is, what is our current state of understanding of the UK’s marine environment? You have talked about 27% of the seabed being mapped. Can you expand on that a little—the marine environment as a whole, beyond mapping, including the biotic environment and so forth? Are there spec…”

“Could I pass the question on to Dr Schratzberger and Mr Evans as well?”

“The UN says that the healthcare system in Gaza is on the brink of collapse, and the International Committee of the Red Cross says that it is being obliterated in besieged northern Gaza. The World Health Organisation says that hospitals have become battlegrounds, and we have all seen the terrible scenes of patients and …”

“Like the shadow Minister, I feel like a bit of a stuck record on the topic of flooding. This is the fourth month running in which I have spoken on it in the House, because it is the fourth month running in which my constituency has been flooded. Today, yet again, roads are inundated, trains are cancelled and homes are …”

“I agree with the Secretary of State that community-based services are crucial. My local NHS trust contacted me in the week before Christmas about Hereford community diagnostic centre, which is currently in the process of being built. It was told to be ambitious with this project, but in December it was told that only a…”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would like to thank the hon. Member for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan) for securing this debate on the vital area of NHS backlogs, which is of great importance to me and my constituents. We are short of time so I will not talk, as I wished to, about the need to tackle the crisis in s…”

“Merry Christmas to you and your staff, Mr Speaker. I declare an interest as co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on water pollution. While I welcome the limited measures that the Government are taking to tackle pollution from the water industry, there is an elephant in the room, because agricultural pollution …”

“Thank you. So there is a little chink, perhaps—the door is open a little. There is a bit of history that we can build on.”

“At the minute, it is not explicitly excluded by the current investment principles, but there is arguably something that needs to be clarified in the definition of national infrastructure. Would you agree that the quality of our natural capital is a key element of national infrastructure?”

“Could I ask you about it, as you are the Minister for this area? The National Wealth Fund currently focuses on infrastructure. It appears to interpret infrastructure as grey infrastructure, but we frequently talk about green and blue infrastructure. In fact, in speaks about infrastructure in relation to water and waste…”

“Perhaps you could write back to us after your meeting with Tulip Siddiq on the topic.”