Speeches by Reynolds.

“Soon.”

“I am excited about that. If you would like me to come back—I do not know if I am supposed to already volunteer to come back—but it is an interesting report. I am very excited to get it out there. We are just doing some work on it, going through the recommendations, but it is brilliant to have someone of Minette’s exper…”

“We can certainly have a look into that for you.”

“Hopefully improved productivity in the farming sector, major improvements in our water infrastructure, and our food industry going from strength to strength. It is already a powerful and strong sector. I cannot put new numbers around that but that is where I hope we will be.”

“I think DEFRA has two different roles in growth, an enabling role but also driving more directly. Let me come to the second role, which I think is what you are getting at. We are doing a huge amount of work with Baroness Minette Batters on farming profitability. We want to help our farming sector drive growth in the se…”

“Thank you very much. I am really excited about this relatively new role—eight weeks now in the role. It is a real privilege. DEFRA is a very important Department of Government and you as the scrutiny arm of the Parliament are very important because this is about the air we breathe, the water that we drink, the nature t…”

“Thank you for the invitation. I am delighted to be with the Committee for the first time. I am the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.”

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“It is a pleasure, as ever, to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich South (Clive Lewis) for securing this debate and the opportunity to have a constructive discussion about living standards in the east of England. I thank other hon. Members who have contributed, incl…”

“I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. We want to ensure that the dream of home ownership is expanded across the country, including to his constituency of Harlow. Because of the reforms we are taking forward, and there will be more to come, the estimate is that 36,000 new first-time buyers will be able to buy thei…”

“I could not agree more with my hon. Friend, who is a fantastic champion of fintech. We already have a thriving fintech sector, which is the second largest in the world—second only to the US—and we are determined to ensure that those companies access the capital and the authorisations and licences that they need from th…”

“That is absolutely right. We were at Lloyds Banking Group yesterday in Leeds, and Lloyds employs thousands of people in Leeds and the wider region. There are some great opportunities in not only the establishment firms, but, as my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Jonathan Davies) said, some of these new firms…”

“I gently say to the right hon. Member that we are not talking about going back to 2007—we have come a long way since then. Of course, after the crash, financial services regulations and a new system of financial services regulation in terms of the twin peaks of the FCA and the PRA—conduct and prudential—were introduced…”

“I might not be able to give my hon. Friend the specifics about her region right now, but I will say that my colleague the Pensions Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Swansea West (Torsten Bell), has secured an ambitious industry-led accord—the Mansion House accord—that commits 17 pension funds, representing 90% of…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his thoughtful question. We are doing a number of things. First, we are working at pace with the FCA to ensure that targeted support is in place by the end of the tax year and in time for the new ISA season in April next year. We are looking at the risk warnings and at the industry-led campa…”

“I can reassure my hon. Friend that the concierge service will be working across the country. This is about ensuring that the UK has a single shop window for international firms looking to either set up or invest further in the UK. As we set out in the Leeds reforms, the benefits of that investment and of unleashing the…”

“I am engaging with Martin Lewis, who is a doughty champion of consumers across the country. I say to the hon. Member that, due to the consumer duty, banks and other providers have a duty to ensure that they deliver the best outcomes for their consumers, but I note what he has said.”

“That is similar to what the hon. Member for East Londonderry (Mr Campbell) asked. There has been lots of different research, but AJ Bell recently found that if people had put £100 a year into ISAs for the past 25 years, they would be better off if they invested in a stocks and shares ISA than a cash ISA, so it is perha…”

“Absolutely. This is something that the Chancellor and I—and indeed the Business Secretary and the Business Minister—are passionate about, and we are making sure that we deliver on our manifesto commitment to double the size of the sector. We have asked the financial services regulators to report by the end of the year …”

“Well, what do I say to that? I think there is, with the exception of the hon. Member, cross-party support for the twin peaks financial services regulation that we have. Of course, we need proportionate regulation to ensure that there are protections in place for consumers. He seems to be suggesting that we get rid of t…”