Speeches by Glen.

“Seven years ago this week, on the orders of Putin in the Kremlin, my constituents faced the Novichok incident, which had an enormous impact on their lives for several months. In the end, Dawn Sturgess died. Please may we have a debate on the position of Russia in the world at a time of changing geopolitics? It is absol…”

“The hon. Lady is making a passionate speech and has done a great job of bringing us all to this Chamber. I lived through Reading’s trials through my stepson who is a season ticket holder— obviously, my first love is for the Whites in Salisbury. Does she not recognise the fundamental challenges of disturbing a market th…”

“It is a privilege to make a contribution in this important seasonal debate. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for North Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) for bringing the debate to the House and commend him on his work chairing the Public Accounts Committee. As he set out, the NHS faces a number of enduri…”

“I warmly welcome the Government’s commitment to extend the help to save scheme, which has been running for seven years. Martin Lewis describes it as “a very clever scheme and one that will work for many people.” May I urge the Minister to look at what needs to be done to raise awareness of it, because the actual uptake…”

“On Monday, I met the director of Salisbury playhouse. She warmly welcomed the £85 million creative foundations fund, which she thought would be highly applicable to Salisbury playhouse, one of the few producing theatres in the south-west. She also told me about the 5,600 local children who were given subsidised tickets…”

“4. What recent estimate the Church has made of the contribution of its cathedrals to local economies.”

“I thank the hon. Lady for her reply. I want to make her aware of a cross-party group that has been set up in Parliament, supported by the hon. Member for St Albans (Daisy Cooper), the hon. Member for Chester North and Neston (Samantha Dixon), and others who represent cathedral cities. We want to help the Second Church …”

“On 4 February, I met Janet Williams and Emma Murphy from the national valproate campaign, In-FACT, the Independent Fetal Anti-convulsant Trust. Later that week, the hon. Members for Rushcliffe (James Naish), and for Washington and Gateshead South (Mrs Hodgson), and my right hon. Friend the Member for Dumfriesshire, Cly…”

“If we can fix that, we then get a viable transition, and the dual purpose that Mr Johnson and the first panel envisaged for this could be achieved.”

“Can I try to zone in on the possible differences? Mr Lewis has spoken about the fact that, under the auto-enrolment regime, you have this 3% employer contribution. Does that not mean that, in fact, it is not like-for-like? The pensions provision is much more underpinned with a sophisticated provision of non-cash produc…”

“Your extensive written evidence points out the fact that the LISA, as it evolved with the penalty and those other rules, is not what you put up.”

“We need to get on the record the fact that, in reality, with auto‑enrolment, and you have the employer contribution alongside the other, it does not really make them equivalent. It is very misleading to say that, surely.”

“Is it not really a better supplementary vehicle for basic rate taxpayers?”

“It was Treasury officials, I suspect.”

“Mr Johnson, I know you well because we worked together in opposition 20 years ago—I should declare that. I do not think that LISA would have existed without you, but I understand your frustration, as it comes through, as I said, in your written evidence. Policy development has to interact with a legacy landscape and a …”

“Was it not, though? It was though, really, was it not? If this had reached its full extension as your 30-year vision would have had, everyone would have used this as the vehicle to save. They would not have been taxed on the exit. You then have a whole issue around how you advise people, particularly people who are not…”

“I was very sympathetic to it, I must say.”

“That is dead now, is it not?”

“Where is the dividing line?”

“If you had a separate LISA that was for pensions and had a different profile from the start around equities and not cash, it would be a perfectly proper alternative, would it not? The only thing that is really in play here is the issue of the legacy providers in the pensions industry that do not want to have this.”