Speeches by Milne.

“Thank you. Chris, from the point of view of your members, any comments?”

“T7. Even while sitting here, I have had word from a constituent whose heating oil cost has risen, in one go, to 129.9p plus VAT per litre. I recognise that the Chancellor has been pressed by a number of Members on this. Can she assure us of immediate action, as vulnerable residents are in immediate crisis?”

“A recent report from Adzuna, a large job search agency, shows youth unemployment at an 11-year high and vacancies plummeting. Jobseekers urgently need the new “jobcentre in your pocket” digital service. Given that current timeframes suggest that it will not be ready until 2028, will the Secretary of State assure us tha…”

“Thank you very much.”

“There are lots of different benefits out there. They do different jobs, they have different rules and they interact in quite complicated ways. Do you have any suggestions on how we might improve that or make it easier for the consumer? I don’t know who wants to come in.”

“Carers’ organisations have also raised concerns about the potential impact of PIP reforms on people in receipt of carer’s benefits, that one carer’s allowance depends on a PIP award. What solutions do you think DWP could use to address that problem? Who would like to take that?”

“Thank you. They are very big differences; it is very interesting. Do you think there are any changes to carer’s benefits that we could make that would help prevent worsening health outcomes?”

“The most concerning thing about that blog post that, as you say, put the blame squarely on the carers, is that we only found out about it by accident. From the outside, it looked like a very different world in that they accepted that balance, that criticism. I am a big fan of the civil service, I back them all the way,…”

“As an example—”

“Very topical. Thank you.”

“A very important point.”

“This is a question for Anne in particular. Is there anything we can learn about the differential health outcomes for unpaid carers across Europe and how it is affected by state support? For instance, Norway and Germany do very well, but what observations do you have?”

“Thank you for coming in this morning. There is a duty on carers to report changes in their circumstances. There is a duty on DWP to inform their expectations in a timely and clear way. Do you think that the DWP has the balance right in expectations on carers?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger. I thank the hon. Member for North East Hertfordshire (Chris Hinchliff) for leading this debate. I would like to focus on the biodiversity net gain industry, or BNG, which has been threatened by changes in Government policy. BNG is one of the most effective tool…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I thank people in my constituency and across the country for signing this petition in such numbers and with such great speed; that is very revealing of the distress that has been caused. The first question is how we got into this mess. This Government’s han…”

“A number of Members have drawn attention to manufacturers in their constituencies. I pay tribute to Chess Dynamics in my constituency of Horsham, which designs and builds world-leading tracking devices—they are absolutely state of the art. I too was in Ukraine last year and, in addition to our support, I was struck by …”

“The Minister is making lots of observations about the consultation that is going to go ahead—what is going to be in it, and how long it is going to take. What we do not know is when he will commit to bringing legislation before this House to act against social media.”

“I understand the consultation, but what about actual legislation?”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his suggestion. I am a big game meat fan, so I am certainly ready for that. Moving to a centralised, fully digitised licensing body akin to the DVLA or the DBS, with real-time verification at the point of sale, would directly address weaknesses, improve consistency, reduce fraud and allow pol…”

“I think a trip to Northern Ireland is on offer to the Minister, and I am sure that she would have an excellent host in the hon. Gentleman.”