Speeches by Turner.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Allin-Khan. I congratulate the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) on the thoughtful and able way in which he introduced this important debate, and I thank the 583 Birmingham Northfield constituents who took the time to sign the petition. T…”

“I think I have made it clear in my remarks about other representatives that I hold no truck at all with apologism for or the glorification of terrorism. There is one more problem. The petition seeks to disbar from public office all those who hold overseas terrorism convictions, but such a disqualification could, if dra…”

“I do not wish to dwell too much on this point, because we will all come back to it later, but in the interests of accuracy I think it is also important to record that 90% of people in the Sparkhill ward did not vote for that candidate.”

“At the outset, I draw attention to my membership of GMB and Unite, both of which organise workers in the engineering construction sector. It is a pleasure to speak in this SI debate, which may be auspicious as, depending on the Government’s future reform of the sector, we may be moving towards longer-term settlements f…”

“I was born in Nottingham City hospital, and while the Ockenden report was necessarily bounded by the last 13 years, I think it is important to record that women and children were avoidably harmed and avoidably died in those settings many years before, and the pain is not diminished by the passing of time. As I have lis…”

“You have anticipated some questions on the process. You mentioned consultation with the devolved Governments. Do you anticipate a public consultation as well on the range of the 2030 target?”

“Thank you. I very much hope the eastern part is not lost. We have to move on.”

“It feels appropriate to finish with a question about potholes. The Government are funding £7 billion for local road repairs. However as vehicles get heavier and extreme weather becomes more frequent, it feels like we are at risk of getting trapped in a cycle where funding increases each year but so does the backlog bec…”

“Have the results of those trials at a local level been looked at and collated within the Department? Ideally we do not want local authorities to be constantly reinventing the wheel.”

“Very specifically on Transport and Works Act orders, the Department said at the end of May that it would be consulting on devolving that process to mayoral authorities. How quickly do you anticipate that happening?”

“There have been a number of reports that there may be changes to the departmental budget as a result of the need to fund the defence investment plan. Are those reports accurate? What level of change might we be talking about?”

“Secretary of State, you have been a strong supporter of the Midlands Rail Hub, and thanks to decisions taken after the election, the work to redesign and hopefully rebuild Kings Norton Railway Station in my constituency is proceeding, and hopefully works will start in this Parliament. Midlands Rail Hub’s next stage is …”

“If there was to be a change in the spending review settlement, what would your priorities be in terms of which programmes to protect?”

“There have been a number of reports over the last few days about the ZEV mandate, including reports that an announcement is imminent. Is it?”

“You have recently announced a mass transit taskforce. The Leeds tram scheme has been subject to extended delays to the late 2030s. We have been talking about a South Birmingham tram extension since 1984. Why do you think that light rail schemes cost so much and take so long to deliver in this country?”

“Something we have looked at in this Committee is HGV driver welfare, in particular the lack of welfare facilities across much of the strategic and local road networks. With there being no plans to reopen the parking and driver welfare grant scheme, what concrete actions are you taking to improve rest facilities and par…”

“Might that include obligations on developers of large logistics projects to make facilities available on a shared basis? Something we have heard is that when it is dependent on Section 106 commitments for HGV drivers from across the country, you are not going to be at the top of local authorities’ priority lists.”

“I commend the hon. Member for Belfast South and Mid Down (Claire Hanna) for her words in this place. My constituents will have been horrified by last night’s scenes in Belfast, just as they were horrified by the attacks on police in Southampton. Both followed horrifying individual incidents that were subsequently explo…”

“I hear what the right hon. Lady says, but it is contradicted by the record and our own experience. She says that integration of track and train is an idea that came from that review, but we were advancing that idea for railway reform on the Labour Benches in 2011 and 2012. The Bill is the culmination of all that reform…”

“The right hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills is, I say respectfully, wrong on this issue. When the Labour party first committed to the reintegration of track and train, under the then shadow Rail Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham South (Lilian Greenwood), I wrote the announcement—so I do bring some be…”