Speeches by Smith.

“Would you agree that they have acknowledged that that was an issue? I am looking at a quote that says that it is “the one significant exception to our usually excellent record of reporting polling”. That particular problem with that particular poll was acknowledged.”

“Caroline, you said that the memo does not provide a comprehensive review of the Grossman report. Do you think it gives an accurate sense of the Grossman report?”

“To be clear, the Grossman reports were the only ones that were asked for by the committee on this particular topic—there were no others?”

“Michael, Dr Shah said that your memo is “a partial description of the evidence that EGSC received”. Is it fair to describe your memo as partial?”

“Do you think it was impartial?”

“Would you agree that they have acknowledged that that was an issue? I am looking at a quote that says that it is “the one significant exception to our usually excellent record of reporting polling”. That particular problem with that particular poll was acknowledged.”

“How do they demonstrate that they have fixed those systemic problems?”

“That is the executive; can we talk briefly about the board? What do you want to do about changing the composition of the board? In particular, would you want to change the number of non-exec board members?”

“Do you have a view?”

“Do you think it is important to have political appointees to the board? Is it right? That is for all three of you.”

“Appointed by politicians.”

“Yes.”

“17. What steps she is taking to improve passenger rail performance.”

“My constituents in Manchester are left constantly frustrated by delays and cancellations, not just on the west coast main line, which you know all about, Mr Speaker, but on our east-west routes, and on services all around Manchester. What are the Government doing, alongside partners, to drive improvements in services t…”

“I warmly welcome the announcement of solar panels at Ladybarn primary school in Withington—it is great news for an excellent school in my patch and good news for the planet. I have also seen good investment in solar panels on hospital buildings in my patch, and we clearly need to scale that up. How can having Great Bri…”

“My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech and I agree with all the things that she has asked for. Perhaps I can add one more ask of both the EA and the Government, which is for more of a focus on the upstream prevention activity, so we can stop the waters coming down on the Mersey—a number of colleagues here are bas…”

“1. What steps Great British Energy is taking to help public services to use more renewable energy.”

“Q6. Last week I visited the new diagnostic centre at Withington community hospital, and as well as the 85,000 new appointments it is going to create, I was really pleased to see new solar panels and heat pumps being designed into the building. I thank the Prime Minister for his climate leadership and for attending COP.…”

“We now have an excellent, highly qualified individual who has been appointed to chair the football regulator, and we have an excellent Secretary of State who made a mistake for which she has apologised. Even the commissioner said that the breach of the code “was not a knowing breach.” What football fans want is not thi…”

“I think you both talked—Frank certainly did—about the importance of curation in producing quality TV for kids. Assuming that the trend continues towards YouTube and away from broadcast TV, who could fulfil that role of curator? How can we get a framework that has curation in it?”