Speeches by Milne.

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the potential impact of the Gatwick airspace modernisation review on local communities. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. My constituency of Horsham lies to the west and south of Gatwick airport. I have brought today’s debate in order to represe…”

“Indeed, as I will come on to, noise is the primary issue at stake here. Gatwick Airport Ltd, referred to as GAL, is a private company. As the operator at Gatwick, it has been tasked with masterminding the airspace review process. It is subject to oversight from a public body, the Civil Aviation Authority. Similarly, He…”

“Do you think that Governments over the years have been able to lay out a clear vision and rationale for what they are trying to achieve with the state pension? To frame that question a bit more closely, there is a big argument about whether the pension should be based on adequacy—as in, whether it actually meets the ba…”

“Last month, the word “WASPI” made it into the Collins English Dictionary, which is a credit to the campaigners behind it. Does the Secretary of State agree that she has gone through the ombudsman’s report with, to use her own words, a fine-toothed comb, in order to get the answer that she always wanted to find in the f…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) for raising this vital issue. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for women worldwide, and many, if not all, Members will know somebody who has faced the frightening prospect of breast cancer treatment, which is unfortunately all too comm…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard (Alex Mayer) on her maiden speech, which was lovely to hear. She kept on the theme of buses as well, which is very impressive. There is a puzzle with rural bus services that needs to be solved. Local residents will all say they are desperate to save thei…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. My constituency includes a mix of rural and urban areas, but this tax hurts both, and that is the key point that I want to make. Local farms do not exist in isolation; they are part of an ecosystem of businesses that depend on each other to thrive. A local f…”

“In my constituency of Horsham, we are almost entirely surrounded by other areas that, for one reason or another, have constrained housing targets—they have areas of outstanding natural beauty, are in national parks or are already built up. As a result, under the duty to co-operate, Horsham has to take a very unfair pro…”

“It is targeted in the same way as before. It is not a response or a mitigation.”

“I am very supportive. I think my time is up.”

“Local housing allowance rates were frozen for four years, which pushed many renters into debt. We have had a single-year uprating. Is there any rationale behind not making that permanent, that it would be uprated every year? Is it for purely financial reasons or do you have a view that it is not necessary?”

“In principle, you would uprate it if you could financially?”

“I want explore your long-term thinking on the issue. Do you see that there is a place for removing the two-child limit in the future, or are you looking to solve child poverty by another means or set of measures?”

“Timescale?”

“Moving on to the WASPI women. I appreciate that you have taken rapid action on the infected blood scandal and the Horizon scandal to sort out compensation there. WASPI women, however, are a notable absence of these hangover things from the last Administration. What people would like to know is when do you think you can…”

“You have talked about the need to protect vulnerable groups who may lose out from the removal of the Winter Fuel Payment and there has been a lot of focus on the Pension Credit element and trying to get all those people that are not claiming it but they are not the only groups. There is a much wider group of people who…”

“We are very supportive of you maintaining the triple lock. That is fantastic news. However, the uplift there is for everyone and it is caused by high inflation so it is not—”

“I agree and I am very supportive of it. However, there is nothing specific in that for pensioners losing out on winter fuel so it is a general payment that is considered necessary for everyone. In terms of targeting, either with that or any of the other benefits or mechanisms you are mentioning, they are not targeted, …”

“But it is not new.”

“This Budget was strongly promoted as a blueprint for growth, so it has come as a considerable surprise to find that the growth forecast for the second half of this Parliament has actually gone down. Somewhere hiding here is a much better Budget trying to get out. The Government have tried to target what are supposed to…”