Speeches by White.

“You talked about the triggers for an investigation by the Home Office, and I am sure that that is intelligence based. Is there a record of how many checks are done a year? Somebody may be employing a person who does not have a visa and is here illegally, so what checks are done on employers to see whether they are doin…”

“I recently met Matthew Pendleton, who owns Apawtiser, a high-quality dog treat company. The company grew legs because processed dog food had made his pet dog violently ill. Matthew now needs the finances so that he can continue to expand, employ more staff and get Apawtiser on the national pet food map. I want to see b…”

“5. What assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing Government-backed loans for SMEs.”

“What discussions has the Minister had on removing universal credit from convicted killers who are currently serving a sentence in a psychiatric hospital?”

“I very much welcome these proposals. The NCA is hugely under-resourced, and bringing these elements together will hopefully give it the funding required to do its job properly. The amount of duplication of effort that occurs and the lack of information sharing result in huge inefficiencies. It is struggling with the pa…”

“Reform’s betrayal of the north must never be forgotten. For this to work, we need our council leaders and mayors to play their part. For constituencies such as Bassetlaw, Bolsover, North East Derbyshire and Chesterfield, our East Midlands Mayor must be part of the dialogue on the investment strategy for transport plann…”

“As the Secretary of State said, this is evidence that cross-Government working is in action, with the Treasury, the Department for Transport and the MHCLG setting the case, and establishing confidence that the north is open for business as the place to invest, to build and to live. We have a Government who have the sel…”

“As a member of the Home Affairs Committee, I have been following this matter closely. Last autumn, safety advisory groups from Birmingham and Leicester banned or scaled down Diwali events. Does the Home Secretary agree that councillors should be removed from SAGs, and that there should be greater transparency to ensure…”

“The match that went ahead a few weeks later was scheduled at an earlier time in order to manage the bussing in and bussing out. That was not considered as part of your peer review as an alternative.”

“At the end of your peer review assessment, you said that you believe that the preferred option would have been to bus fans into Aston Villa.”

“We have already covered the fact that there was no communication with Israeli police. Should more action have been taken in order to try to make that happen effectively, perhaps through Europol?”

“Mr Roberts, you confirm that the meeting with the Dutch police was a tipping point for West Midlands police’s approach to the fixture. Was a single verbal intelligence briefing sufficient to support this fundamental change in approach? We have already covered this, but should there have been a more in-depth investigati…”

“You will be aware that we are visiting Manchester City in a few weeks’ time, and I understand that you are a season ticket holder.”

“Manchester City is playing Galatasaray. There were two murders in Leeds. It is a team that has not been allowed to come to the UK on countless times since that occasion. What security assessments would you give to that team coming to the UK?”

“We are diverting, but this is about the overarching way in which football is managed. It is a responsibility of DCMS and the Home Office, and now you are talking about the FCDO.”

“It may well be that a recommendation that comes out of this report is around how these issues are managed. We are getting the security and safety of football grounds muddled up with fans and who attends, et cetera. They should be entirely different decision-making processes.”

“I am surprised. I have served as a councillor for many years at senior level and the security of my community is a No. 1 priority. If any intelligence had come through from any committee, at a senior level, we would have been working very closely with the police to manage that.”

“The police earlier reported that they had picked up, through different inquiries, that there were proposals for people to arm themselves and attack the Israeli fans should they come to the city of Birmingham. Was that fed up to the highest level of the authority? That is a serious safety concern that you, as an authori…”

“I am a member of Labour Friends of Israel and Labour Friends of Palestine, but I have also been for 40 years the spouse of Lord Mann, who is the Government’s independent unpaid adviser on antisemitism.”

“I want to come in on the accuracy of your reporting. In the SAG minutes of 16 October there was a discussion about the risk in reference to the different football fans. When talking about the Maccabi fan base, incidents in Italy, Norway and Holland were referenced, but none of these incidents involved Maccabi fans. For…”