Speeches by Reynolds.

“I was a Treasury Minister leading on financial services. Thankfully I did not lead on tax more broadly. The Government are one Government. They are not a series of individuals. They are a collective and that is a collective decision of the Government. I know it is a decision in last year’s Budget that was particularly …”

“Absolutely. Domestic food production is essential.”

“Okay. It is a very good question. The first thing I would say is it is an important priority for the Government and there is a definition so I think I will give you one that has already been thought of. The World Food Summit definition is, “… when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficien…”

“Widely. It is basically bonnet up and getting into the guts of it.”

“We are taking all those things on board and we are at the stage now where Minister Eagle and I are looking at the design and we want to get that right. I know that there have been certain timetables sometimes communicated that have not been met. I would rather not put a timetable on it, but what I will say is that it i…”

“Can I come back on that? We have a body of work on that, and it is pretty comprehensive. Obviously, there are costs that we cannot help bear down on and there are food prices that are often not globally set but influenced by global prices. As you will know, beef is high at the moment but other products not so much. I u…”

“Which I will take on board. I am trying to reassure you that we want to ensure that we have not only better design of the schemes but better communication because we know how important that is in terms of farmers’ ability to plan for the future.”

“We absolutely need to get to things earlier and improve the communication. I know that what farmers want is predictability and certainty and an ability to plan. I can make an undertaking to the Committee that Minister Eagle and officials are focusing on that. What I will say is the conversations that I had with the NFU…”

“I hear what you are saying, but I am not going to give a running commentary on my conversations with colleagues in Government. I am sorry, but we are one Government and I do meet with the Chancellor, I do meet with Treasury Ministers but I also meet with Ministers across Government. I did that this morning and I will c…”

“I might give you a bit more colour on the timing because I think you were saying you had been promised this. I understand the frustration on that. Let me also say that I have 89 farms in my constituency and farmers are very good at telling me what they do and do not like so let me thank them. I have not been to every f…”

“indicated assent.”

“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…”

“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 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…”

“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…”

“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 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…”

“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 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…”