Speeches by Turner.

“I echo the Secretary of State’s comments and those of my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Edgbaston (Preet Kaur Gill) on recognising the endeavours of health and care staff during last week’s extremely difficult critical incidents, and I also recognise the effect of contingency planning that had taken place, inclu…”

“A number of major transport projects are currently under review. As you know, it has been claimed that some of those projects were not sufficiently taken to maturity of design, costed or funded, on which you may or may not wish to comment. As we await the outcomes of that review, how do you think the Government should …”

“Do you think that our ability to project that contribution to economic growth, particularly when we are comparing different modes, is sufficiently well developed, or is there further work on the modelling that the Departments and the Treasury should be doing? Sir John Armitt: That is a good one. We are not short of mod…”

“I want to ask a follow-up question about connectivity within the midlands. We started to get on to this topic in answer to the previous question. The infrastructure progress review said that there was a particular lack of rail journeys within the midlands, east to west. Following the cancellation of the eastern leg, wh…”

“One common criticism of Government transport planning is that strategic decisions across modes are not always well integrated with one another—for example, investment in rail and road—and those decisions do not always have a clear relationship with Government’s wider strategic objectives, whether that is regional rebal…”

“I am very grateful. Having listened to what the hon. Gentleman has had to say, I am still unclear what problem in the real world he is seeking to solve. From experience of working in trade unions, it is clear that the new clause would block a trade union member who was negotiating to save a company or reach an agreemen…”

“Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”

“Will the shadow Minister give way?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz; I am glad to make the shadow Minister so happy and to see the smile on his face. I draw the Committee’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I am a member of the GMB and Unite trade unions. I have two points about the new clause. …”

“I draw the attention of the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests about my membership of the energy unions, GMB and Unite. In 2017, the then energy Minister, the noble Lord Harrington, said: “the closure of Rough will not cause a problem with security.”—[Official Report, 27 June 2017; Vol. 6…”

“Since October 2023, my constituent has been separated from her husband and the father of her children, who is a Palestinian citizen of the state of Israel. I have deep concerns about the Home Office’s handling of this case, and it has not replied to my last two representations. Will the Minister agree to look into this…”

“In this Parliament, we have spoken at length about the importance of valuing dignity at the end of life. That principle must be applied to hospice and palliative care, which has faced uncertain funding and been too hard to access for too long. Like most of us, I have reason to be grateful for the work of palliative car…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Christopher. I am sure that the whole Committee is grateful for that illuminating update. I will keep my comments brief. The words that we have talked about at great length—“appearing to the Secretary of State to represent” employees, workers or employers—are a standa…”

“As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. As is customary, I draw attention to my declarations in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and my membership of the GMB and Unite trade unions. It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles. I will make two br…”

“I understand the point that the shadow Minister is making, but this phrase seems to be well established in the relevant legislation. It appears in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and other legislation that establishes legal parameters around the security services, and appears to have first been used in …”

“We heard from the hon. Gentleman earlier in the main Chamber about sustainable aviation fuel; I wonder whether he might share with us the shadow ministerial equivalent that he seems to have discovered, because we are covering a huge amount of ground. I just say this to him. We did have the Taylor review, which looked a…”

“Some multi-academy trusts offer terms and conditions on sick pay after six weeks that are only a little above the statutory minimum. If one of their teachers falls seriously ill, they should have access to the same protections available to any other teacher.”

“My interest was piqued by the hon. Gentleman’s description of Labour Members as being “anti-data”. He talks about the Welsh education system. Has he reviewed the arguments made by Professor John Jerrim, who conducted the 2015 review of the England PISA results and found that there is an anomaly with the treatment of We…”

“I want to make the House aware that my partner works for a teacher training provider. The Bill represents a real step towards closing the gaps through which children are falling. Parents and carers in Birmingham Northfield will welcome the measures in the Bill to help keep the cost of school uniforms down, to extend fr…”

“My hon. Friend and I have both helped to administer the internal democracies of trade unions. Does he agree that the caricature of trade unionists as conscripts who just do as they are told is not based on any kind of reality? There might have been times when he and I wished that was the case, but the reality is that u…”