Speeches by Cocking.

“You have described some scenarios that sound horrific, with holes in floors and what have you. Has your organisation done any analysis on what auto-enrolment will do to solve some of the issues around income when people reach pension age? Obviously, that is going to take a while to work through, but have you done any a…”

“Paul, what is the average service charge for one of your properties?”

“What was it in the last financial year?”

“Hang on, from the beginning, if someone turns up—”

“Has anyone who left Anchor over all these failures received a payoff to go?”

“Do you charge for that access?”

“How many years of information do you provide on what the service charge will be in, let us say, five years? Do you give any information to people who want to buy?”

“I am the MP for Broxbourne, and I am a leaseholder as well.”

“You do not provide a simple sheet that says, “Last year the service charge was £3,000. The year before that, it was £2,500”?”

“When someone wants to purchase one of your properties because they have looked around one of your estates and think it is quite nice, how many years’ service charge do you give them before they sign on the dotted line to buy one?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for South West Hertfordshire (Mr Mohindra) for securing this very important debate. In recent years, banking services have been withdrawing from my constituency. Every single high street has seen bank branches close, and w…”

“My hon. Friend makes an excellent point and I completely agree. Now is the time to change the rules and it is up to the Government to step up, be accountable to the electorate they serve and change the rules, rather than hiding behind unaccountable bodies such as Link, which do not determine the rules but just sit in t…”

“We have all mentioned a number of businesses that think this Labour Government are taking the wrong direction. Can the Minister list the businesses in his constituency that believe that this Labour Government are taking the right direction for business growth in this country? If he lists the businesses in his constitue…”

“I commend the Chair of the Select Committee, the hon. Member for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green (Florence Eshalomi), for securing this important debate. I congratulate her on her fair and robust approach to leading the Committee, and every now and again she allows me to ask some difficult questions of Government Ministe…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Leicestershire (Mr Bedford) on securing this important debate. He is a passionate defender of small and medium-sized businesses in his constituency and across the country. I meet small business owners in my c…”

“Sorry, can I interrupt you there? I do not want waffle; I just want to know what you have implemented since you have been in charge of the company to make FirstPort better, please.”

“I have a few questions for you, Martin. You became managing director of FirstPort in 2024. What changes have you implemented at the company since you have been in post?”

“Just on communication, are you happy with where it is now in the company then, with residents?”

“I think conveyancing is part of the problem. I do not think you guys are as transparent as that. I do not think you guys in your association will tell people what they need to know when they are buying the property. I can understand that a few people might not know, but I will have whole estates write to me that have g…”

“I just want to go back to something Beth said. I was asking around the conveyancing process and what information you give to the buyer, and you basically said, “We give them a whole load of information, wash our hands, and that—"”