Speeches by Kirkham.

“Some local authorities particularly have invested in infrastructure that is now likely to become redundant bearing in mind the new burdens doctrine. Will those local authorities that cannot now recover their costs be compensated?”

“Of course so much money was spent post-Brexit.”

“When we went to Sevington, to be honest there was not a huge amount of activity going on. There were not a lot of lorries coming in and out. We asked some questions about Sevington and non-attendance was a problem initially. You said to us that non-attendance had gone down so we asked for attendance data to show that. …”

“Just quickly on the intelligence point, when we went to Dover we were told that it was already getting intelligence about which vans were coming in and were given numbers and so on. What would change with the SPS? How much more intelligence would there be? We could not see huge amounts of evidence of that to be honest.…”

“There have been a lot of policy changes and changes at the border in recent years, four in the last six years, and the Port Health Authorities have been struggling with the clarity of those changes and the time to prepare for them. We are obviously all looking forward to a new border system when the SPS comes in. How s…”

“If implementation were to happen in, say, mid-2027, do you think that we would have given businesses and ports enough notice for the changes to happen immediately or would we have a transition period after that?”

“Since Brexit, our checks have changed for the rest of the world. We are looking at risk-based checks now rather than what we had before. When we have a common SPS area, will that change those border checks for the rest of the world and the sectors that rely on them—such as fresh fruit—or will we go back to the EU regim…”

“Why the delay?”

“Cornwall Marine Network in my constituency is a small and medium-sized enterprise members association that provides training and apprenticeship support. It recently celebrated providing 5,000 new jobs and apprenticeships. It will welcome the Government’s youth guarantee and the news that SMEs will not have to pay for a…”

“Q15. Under this Labour Government, NHS waiting lists are coming down. I welcome the commitment to refurbish Truro Health Park in my constituency, one of the first new neighbourhood health centres in the country. Cornwall is already leading the way with new neighbourhood health teams, and upgrading Truro Health Park wil…”

“I welcome the real progress made on the pre-1997 fund. I do not have as much specific technical knowledge as most hon. Members in the Chamber, and I was not on the Bill Committee, but I have looked at the amendments and would like to comment on them, as I was lucky enough to chair a local government pension scheme comm…”

“It is important that we look very closely at the measures, as we in the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said in our report. Family farms are obviously very important and we need to consider them deeply when thinking about food security. This is a long game. Fixing what is broken will be a hard path, but t…”

“This was a Budget for young people. We are lifting the two-child benefit cap, bringing half a million children out of poverty; alongside free school meals, breakfast clubs, childcare and uniforms, we are reducing child poverty more than any Government ever. Our youth guarantee will make sure that every young person can…”

“It is really concerning that these leaks have happened before. I understand that the investigation is still under way, but could the OBR tell who was trying to access this information, and can my right hon. Friend confirm that this will be investigated fully? Can he also confirm when last there was headroom as low as £…”

“I recently presented a petition to restore Falmouth’s pool, which we lost three years ago. It got 5,754 wet signatures—over a quarter of the population of the town. We have a very active community interest company and private business support, and the mayor has just swum the length of the channel—in a different pool a …”

“I am so pleased that the riches beneath our feet in Cornwall will finally be taken out and used in a sustainable way that benefits the people of Cornwall. I am so pleased to see this strategy, as are the people of Cornwall. The Minister is coming to Cornwall and will visit the port in Falmouth, which I hope will benefi…”

“Cornwall has been campaigning for fair funding for years under successive Tory and Liberal Democrat Governments. We are so pleased with the fair funding formula 2.0. There have been some consultation changes, so can the Secretary of State please confirm that they will not disadvantage Cornwall and that we will get the …”

“The port of Falmouth has benefited from Government money for plug-in power, but it has been held back by the grid. The port is also trying to redevelop and expand, so that it can service the floating offshore wind sector, and bring in freight on the freight line that we lost 15 years ago. Will the Minister support the …”

“I want to quickly mention one of those 25% of people with ME who are severely affected: my constituent Alice. She cannot leave her room, and is scared to call for treatment in case she has to go into hospital: she has been into hospital twice, but people there are not sure how to treat her and they make it worse. I sim…”

“I agree that rural households such as those in my part of Cornwall desperately need the warm homes plan. Does the hon. Member agree that other sources of energy provision—for instance, ground source heat pumps and liquid fuels such as hydrotreated vegetable oil—could also be included, and would be a good addition to th…”