Speeches by Law.

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (James Naish) for securing this important debate. I am sure he will be much thanked by my residents in Gainsborough Park, Fir Hill, Glenleigh, Roseveare, Buckler Village, and the Old Rectory Mews, for raising the issues that they raise with me—the 10% commission being pr…”

“I declare an interest, or former interest: I was Chris’s colleague at BII before I came to this place. Chris, is it possible to stimulate local economies sufficiently to provide the kind of employment we are talking about for the millions of Africans who enter the job market every year?”

“People like Ajay Banga of the World Bank describe the enormous need in relation to young people coming into the job market for the first time—the challenge of meeting the financing gap, essentially, because the jobs simply are not being created. Can you elaborate on whether it is possible for the likes of BII to meet t…”

“Minister, are you concerned that the international community continues to meet all of this humanitarian need at a time when there are significant illicit financial flows leaving Nigeria?”

“On that topic, you mentioned that some of these interventions are incredibly good value for money—one of the Committee’s favourite topics—and you mentioned the work you have done on illicit finance and institution building. How easy is it to quantify the impact of the interventions you are talking about vis-à-vis, say,…”

“I declare an interest, or former interest: I was Chris’s colleague at BII before I came to this place. Chris, is it possible to stimulate local economies sufficiently to provide the kind of employment we are talking about for the millions of Africans who enter the job market every year?”

“People like Ajay Banga of the World Bank describe the enormous need in relation to young people coming into the job market for the first time—the challenge of meeting the financing gap, essentially, because the jobs simply are not being created. Can you elaborate on whether it is possible for the likes of BII to meet t…”

“Minister, are you concerned that the international community continues to meet all of this humanitarian need at a time when there are significant illicit financial flows leaving Nigeria?”

“Between those institutions, Chris, can development finance solve this issue? I know that you are doing your part.”

“Yes.”

“On that topic, you mentioned that some of these interventions are incredibly good value for money—one of the Committee’s favourite topics—and you mentioned the work you have done on illicit finance and institution building. How easy is it to quantify the impact of the interventions you are talking about vis-à-vis, say,…”

“I feel like we could talk about the next question for hours, but is financial—?”

“Coming to the individual states and to the north for example, what will be the impact on some of those individual states if Nigeria continues with low job creation?”

“Thank you for that. Could you give a very brief example of how an organisation like yours might work with Government to improve the enabling environment for investment?”

“SEND provision is a fraught and highly emotional issue, because of the stakes at play: education, inclusion and, above all, dignity. I am pleased to see so many colleagues here from across the House, with the exception of only a couple of parties. Like others, I want to share the experiences of my constituents. A few m…”

“T5. When we came to power, our then Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committed to protect farmers from being undercut in all new trade deals. I am pleased to say that we have come good on that commitment. Ahead of the Labour rural research group’s push for farming profitability, will the Secre…”

“Q13. Some 95% of the food that we import from non-EU countries has lower welfare standards than that produced by British farmers, costing us millions and putting worse food on our plates. The Labour Rural Research Group will shortly launch our spring push on farming profitability to support British farmers by introduci…”

“I was delighted to see the Eden Project’s recent report, which shone a light on the nearly £7 billion-worth of positive impact it has drawn into the Cornish economy and our community over the past 25 years. Will the Leader of the House work with me and across Departments to ensure that our high street strategy and our …”

“There has been a huge amount of progress towards what a good devolution settlement for Cornwall should look like, but it is also increasingly evident since Storm Goretti that part of that deal has to be infrastructure resilience. I really welcome the idea that we pilot some of these storm resilience measures, but will …”

“I thank my hon. Friend for giving way again. I welcome his statement on the Green Book review. It is really important that we get infrastructure investment in place. Does he agree with me that the Labour Government are already doing an awful lot, whether that is record funding for roads or the record local government f…”