Speeches by Irons.

“Do you think that it has changed at all? Is it still difficult for young people to find things to get involved in?”

“I will follow up with our athletes. Thank you so much for being here; you are putting us all to shame. How did you enter sport outside of a school setting? You touched on this a little bit and you talked about the difficulty with signposting and finding the clubs around you. What was your experience and what can we do …”

“Thank you so much for coming today. I am going to take it back to the community setting and not just school, because obviously your passion for sport or your lifelong journey with sport is not just going to be confined to the classroom. Ali, we have heard in evidence about the Grand Canyon-sized gap between school and …”

“As a graduate of the Croydon Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prime Minister will know that youth services can broaden a young person’s horizons beyond what they could ever imagine. With national spending on youth services having declined 73% since 2010, will the Prime Minister outline how this Government will bring y…”

“If anyone does not get to intervene today, I would ask them to please sign up to my Backbench Business debate on youth services, because we need more time to discuss this matter. As my hon. Friend rightly points out, supporting youth services is not just a moral case, but a financial one. Does she agree that the 73% de…”

“Croydon’s youth engagement team is a council-run service that provides critical support for young people across Croydon, including keeping kids away from being groomed by gangs, supporting a youth assembly that gives kids a civic voice, and providing a youth hub in New Addington, in my constituency. Those services are …”

“I welcome this Government’s commitment to halving violence against women and girls, and their investment in the domestic abuse protection order scheme in Croydon. However, Croydon’s youth engagement team, who focus on helping to prevent young women from being brought into gangs through grooming, abuse and vulnerability…”

“I thank the Minister for meeting me and other Croydon MPs to talk about our council’s legacy of debt. The Minister talks about early help and prevention. Will the funding formula take account of things such as youth services, where early help and prevention can have a massive impact on what councils have to spend over …”

“I had hoped that we could move away from this pitting area against area. I can assure the shadow Secretary of State that I am from an urban area with high deprivation, but with very high transport costs for children to get to special educational needs placements, and also massive temporary accommodation costs. Perhaps …”

“Sajeeda, are the current proposals at least a slight improvement to the previously proposed TDM exemptions?”

“Given some of the evidence we heard in the first session, what is your response to the fear of the smaller start-ups in the UK that the bigger boys in the race could hold back their development and stop them moving forward?”

“Thank you for coming in this afternoon. I am thinking about where we have already been in this journey and the previous consultations and discussions. You mentioned that you have met with a group of officials previously. Matt, given your sector’s response in the last Parliament, are you surprised that the Government ha…”

“Sajeeda, are the current proposals at least a slight improvement to the previously proposed TDM exemptions?”

“Given some of the evidence we heard in the first session, what is your response to the fear of the smaller start-ups in the UK that the bigger boys in the race could hold back their development and stop them moving forward?”

“I am very interested in the perspective of start-ups, and how they scale up their business models and things of that sort. On the other side of that, how do you envisage creatives being paid for their content? How do you envisage that industry still thriving if, as you stated, you prefer option 2, which is to do what A…”

“Thank you for coming in this afternoon. I am thinking about where we have already been in this journey and the previous consultations and discussions. You mentioned that you have met with a group of officials previously. Matt, given your sector’s response in the last Parliament, are you surprised that the Government ha…”

“I am very interested in the perspective of start-ups, and how they scale up their business models and things of that sort. On the other side of that, how do you envisage creatives being paid for their content? How do you envisage that industry still thriving if, as you stated, you prefer option 2, which is to do what A…”

“Last week, I received letters from year 5 pupils at St Thomas Becket Catholic primary school in my constituency. They raised concerns about deforestation and highlighted the alarming decline of tropical rainforests by 50% and the unacceptable use of child labour by the industries driving deforestation. Will the Leader …”

“How will the Government ensure that we have enough high-quality training providers in this space?”

“I thought I was going to get away with it. There was a lot of discussion around skills and training and the apprenticeship levy and how we can ensure that the industry as a whole has the skills that it needs to grow. Going back to the apprenticeship levy, can you clarify the changes around short-term contracts? Will th…”