Speeches by Turner.

“Almost a decade ago, I had the interesting experience of working for the Labour party on aviation policy and, on Heathrow, the fundamentals have not changed. The exhaustion of that sovereign hub capacity is offshoring our emissions and is a stopper on growth in every part of the country. Does the Chief Secretary agree …”

“Returning to funding, we heard a short while ago that the greatest barrier to achieving a 50% target is resourcing. What is the gap in terms of your current budget?”

“Thank you. Are all of those toolkits in the public domain?”

“I think you have touched on this, but do you take a view on the merits of particular types of schemes? I am thinking in particular about bollards on streets that can prevent pavement parking, but which can be hard for some road users to navigate; or floating bus stops, which can be convenient for some cyclists but less…”

“It is right that in this debate we all champion our local and regional airports, including Birmingham International. However, the reality is that no other airport is a serious rival to the long-haul hub capacity that Heathrow provides, and its exhaustion of that capacity is a block on growth in every region of the UK. …”

“I congratulate the hon. Member on securing this debate. I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Member’s Financial Interests, given my background in the GMB trade union, which represents ambulance workers in the West Midlands ambulance service. Does he agree that during the difficult winter period, ambulance st…”

“As a former official of the GMB shipbuilding and ship repair union, I warmly welcome today’s announcement. Does the Minister agree that an aim of the defence industrial strategy should be to open up opportunities for jobs and apprenticeships to people from disadvantaged communities?”

“Finally, Laura, you spoke about ensuring accountability to the Secretary of State and having scrutiny around this programme of work. The Government have been quite clear that shadow GBR is not a public body in its own right. I am curious to tease out, if we can, what those accountability mechanisms look like. It is ver…”

“Laura, picking up on the theme about the engagement work that you are undertaking at the moment, in your current role do you have the scope to engage with the sector beyond that group of three which meets regularly? If so, what does that programme of engagement look like?”

“On the operational side, is there a close relationship at the moment between shadow GBR, albeit in its very early form, and operators? I am particularly thinking about DFT direct operations. Clearly, that will be a very important part of the early work of GBR once it is on a statutory footing. How integrated are you ab…”

“Thank you. I must say, given the importance of this particular policy area, that I find it a little surprising to hear that detailed records are not being kept at the moment, but perhaps we will get to that point.”

“I have a couple of follow-up questions. Minister, you said that there will come a point during the passage of the legislation when it is possible to recruit. Would it be possible for the Committee to have an explanation in writing of what the barrier is? When the old shadow Strategic Rail Authority was created—I accept…”

“All of us who support this policy agenda would still recognise that there are success stories to be drawn from London Overground, Merseyrail and some historical examples of how regionalisation worked under the British Rail days. I want to ask about where disputes might arise. We all hope that most problems could be res…”

“On the principle that anything that can happen will happen, would you accept that there needs to be some dispute resolution mechanism even if it is of a last resort?”

“Will the hon. Member acknowledge that the CST said it is the right time to take school support staff pay out from under the local authority umbrella, and that its concern was that a ceiling would be set on school support staff pay? It has been clarified in the Employment Rights Bill Committee that that is not the case;…”

“In the seconds available to me, I cannot do justice to the cases I have heard of pupils and parents who are stuck in the system. Ten years on from the passing of the Children and Families Act 2014, it is time to look at where the current system is failing. Local authorities had additional responsibilities loaded on to …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Irene Campbell) on her very capable speech introducing the debate. I speak today in recognition of the strength of the representations that I have received from constituents; I thank all …”

“Thank you, Sir Christopher. All good things must come to an end, and sadly that includes this Committee. I echo the thanks given by the Minister to the workers—to everyone who has supported the Committee—and I thank our Front Benchers, who have done a sterling job and from time to time gently and appropriately warded u…”

“All models are wrong, but some models are useful.”

“May I invite the Secretary of State to respond to the following statement that was shared by the Union of Jewish Students while she was on her feet? “We support the changes brought forward by the Secretary of State. She has listened to the concerns we and others raised and has taken action. The result is that the Act w…”