Speeches by Sandher.

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham and Beckton (James Asser) for securing this debate. We have rightly spoken about those who died during the pandemic, but covid also did something else: it made it much harder for people to earn a decent living. Those who were already struggling—the low paid, the young and …”

“My constituency of Loughborough, Shepshed and the villages is in the east midlands, a region that has been overlooked for too long. That ends today, first with the changes to the Green Book, which we all welcome. There will be more money outside London; I hope my colleagues do not mind too much. Secondly, we have more …”

“T4. Businesses in my constituency often complain about the shocking Brexit deal that the Conservative party gave us, with more costs, more red tape and more paperwork. That is why Labour Members welcome the new EU deal negotiated by this Government. Can the Minister set out how businesses in my constituency—in Loughbor…”

“Manufacturing has been falling in this country since Margaret Thatcher came to this place. The lack of manufacturing jobs, and the inability of graduates to get a decent job in this country, is precisely why they are turning away from democracy itself. More than that, the UK has suffered the fastest deindustrialisation…”

“I was a very young man then as it happens; it was rather a long time ago. I believe that the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston (Neil O’Brien) wanted to intervene too. [Interruption.] Or perhaps not any more—he is busy tweeting away. That is okay.”

“I give way first to the hon. Member for Angus and Perthshire Glens (Dave Doogan).”

“Oh, go on then.”

“You brought in a temporary reduction of business rates during covid, but as with so much else, you did not fund that beyond those years, so you made a permanent reduction of 40% for the future.”

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“Luckily, I will come back to reindustrialising the economy and what the Labour Government are doing right now, but let me turn to the motion at hand, which does not really add up, taking each point in turn. The motion speaks of employment. Employment, including youth employment, is higher than it was at the July electi…”

“In a moment. On top of that, young people cannot move out: some 40% of 18 to 35-year-olds live at home with mum and dad. Each of them is now turning away from democracy.”

“We know that a nation in which every single one of us can earn a decent life is a stronger nation. That is exactly the kind of country that the Government are creating. In this country today, too many people cannot earn a decent life. Our nation is weaker as a result. The task before us is to create a stronger nation, …”

“I, too, wish the Veterans Minister the best of luck as he climbs Everest, and I am sure we all agree: rather him than us. In today’s world warfare is changing dramatically. Drones costing $1,000 can destroy tanks worth $10 million, but the innovation cycle for those drones is rapid; they are designed to become obsolete…”

“1. What steps he is taking to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises are able to participate in defence procurement contracts.”

“The hon. Member’s amendment speaks of “severe pain and discomfort”, but there is a reason why the medical profession has not gone for that. How does she propose we assess severe pain and discomfort as opposed to medium pain? Is a fungating wound part of severe pain and discomfort?”

“I think today of Norman Ward, who in 2020 shot himself while terminally ill because of the terrible pain that he faced. Does my hon. Friend agree that under subsection (f) of new clause 16, Norman Ward would have been unable to access the choice that would have ended his suffering?”

“Looking forward then in terms of having new skill creation as the new task creation from AI that you can do, do you think that new task creation is going to outweigh some of the older tasks that would no longer be done because AI is now helping to perform those?”

“When it comes to these new tasks and the skills required for it, how are you finding the training to help your employees? On the other side, how do you feel government are working with you to help create those skills?”

“Yes. Thinking about the automation revolution, people had computers, and they could do different things, so you did not have to sit there with a slide rule. Excel does it fast. It meant that jobs changed but jobs were not destroyed because people became more productive. What happened in the middle labour market was dif…”

“Mr Luther, I want to talk to you about the ways in which AI may change employment within the financial services sector particularly around the kinds of tasks that may be carried out. What tasks do you see in the financial services sector being—I was going to say “automated”, but that seems a little bit old—done by gene…”