Speeches by Baldwin.

“And the legislation will transfer all the powers that the PSR has to you?”

“So you could have absorbed the organisation without having got the powers across?”

“The PSR is doing an important piece of work on the high credit card fees that some of our constituents suffer from. Can you reassure the Committee that that will not slow down as a result of this organisational change?”

“I rise to say that we will not oppose the increases to the national minimum wage or the national living wage—the national living wage being something that my party introduced to make work pay. We celebrate the fact that progress was made in ending low pay, and the Minister cited that from the Dispatch Box this evening.…”

“Further to Mr John Glen’s questions about the rolling in of the Payment Systems Regulator into the FCA, can I ask Mr Alder whether the FCA board proactively offered that to the Treasury as a way in which things could be simplified on the regulatory front?”

“Mr Lewis, I wanted to ask a few more of these political and personal questions, because we are politicians, I am afraid. You have citizenship here in the UK and citizenship in the States, I understand.”

“You have the US passport still.”

“I wanted to clarify for the record. From what I am hearing, I think I know the answer. Have you ever donated to any American politicians?”

“Given the role you are going for as chair of the Crown Estate, I feel I also have to ask you, in terms of the country you were born in, which got rid of the monarchy, and the country that you now live in and are going to go and work for as chair of the Crown Estate, whether monarchy is better than a presidency. What is…”

“You are not going to go there.”

“You have sworn allegiance to the crown and are a supporter of the work of the Crown Estate.”

“When you took up your British citizenship, you would have sworn allegiance to the Crown.”

“On that topic, covering agricultural land with solar panels and building a lot of onshore wind is something that is happening across the UK at the moment. Does the Crown Estate have a policy position on that?”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister has just said that, as it is an Opposition day debate, he will speak exclusively about what the Opposition think and say. Is it your understanding, Madam Deputy Speaker, that it is in order for a Minister at the Dispatch Box not to defend the track record of his o…”

“My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. It is absolutely right that we ask the questions we are asking today. The statistic that has shocked me most in this debate is that of the millions of pensioners who lost their winter fuel payment, 44,000 are estimated to have been terminally ill. Is she as shocked as I am by…”

“I wanted to go back to the line of questioning from my colleague Rachel Blake MP about growth. We have heard from the Governor on several occasions that the UK’s growth rate started to achieve a much lower rate after the financial crisis, suggesting that there was something that happened at the financial crisis that ha…”

“One of the first acts of this Government was to take away the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners on incomes as low as £13,000 a year, including 44,000 who are—or were—terminally ill. Will the Secretary of State reassure all our constituents that in making these changes, she will not be going after those …”

“It was a wonderful answer and very well informed, but I do not think I heard whether, yes, the UK should go it alone, or, no, we should wait until the rest of the major competitors in this space go too. I just want a yes or no.”

“Are we in an okay position now? You mentioned the resilience and the fact that we have gone through all these different shocks and actually the banking system has come through them. There have been live stress tests. We have had the Silicon Valley Bank failing. We have heard regularly from Sam Woods that he is not runn…”

“The Business Secretary met recently in Japan with Fujitsu, which developed the Horizon system and has offered to contribute to the compensation for victims. Can the Minister tell the House how much the Secretary of State has asked it to contribute, so that taxpayers are not on the hook for £1 billion?”