Speeches by Fortune.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) for securing the debate. I have no doubt that the Royal British Legion is one of the most nationally significant charities in Britain today. That is not solely because of the legion’s po…”

“Sir Geoffrey, we were talking about pedigree animals. Remind me of what you were saying.”

“You touched on it briefly, but what are the risks of limiting surveillance to those species?”

“What was the thinking behind focusing on pigs and poultry?”

“I very much enjoyed Sir Chris answering a question with a glass half full and half empty simultaneously. I am going to use a Schrodinger’s glass answer in the future. Let me turn to Abigail. Over the last five years—this is glass half full, I suppose—the targets have been hit, broadly, so what have you done? What has b…”

“Abigail, I started with the glass half full, so I will switch to the other side, but I am not being mean. Congratulations on hitting the targets, but let me ask gently: were the targets challenging enough? Could they be stretched?”

“I love an answer with a specific timeframe. Thank you very much.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. Before serving the people of Bromley and Biggin Hill as their Member of Parliament, I served them as a councillor in the borough for 12 years. I was also privileged to be deputy leader of that great borough. I have, therefore, long been familiar with the fin…”

“If those performance targets keep shifting as you are learning about what the demands are on the business, you do not have a baseline to see whether there is improvement, because you are revising your own targets all the way through. That comes back to what you were saying, David, about a more sophisticated approach, w…”

“In every meeting I sit in now, AI gets mentioned.”

“I was going to ask whether there was a more sophisticated approach that could be taken to setting targets, which we have just covered off with the last round of questioning. One thing that was a concern, David, was when you said that, if safety were an issue that meant that Euan was going to miss a target, he would not…”

“I guess you have a balance of the short-term issues and building the long-term capacity as well.”

“For the Committee’s reassurance, that is being double‑checked or scrutinised.”

“I get that there is a learning process. As you are learning about what targets to set and what targets are realistic—we used to call it SMART back when I did my training.”

“I speak as a member of the Public Accounts Committee, which worked on the report about how justice delayed is justice denied, and I recommend that Members peruse it. What specific conversations has the Lord Chancellor had with colleagues in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government about speeding up the…”

“I regularly meet business owners big and small across Bromley and Biggin Hill. The story is the same no matter who I talk to, be it big franchisees, independent care providers or small family-owned start-ups: British businesses do not feel supported by this Labour Government. Instead, they feel hamstrung by Labour’s ta…”

“Like many Conservative Members who have started a small business, I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. It has been fascinating to listen to stories about businesses from across the country during the debate. I was particularly moved by my hon. Friend the Member for K…”

“A couple of people have touched on this. We are essentially talking about the liberalisation of dentistry, to a certain extent. The option could be that if you are having a check-up, a filling or polishing, somebody like a dental therapist could do that. That is not a drop in quality, right?”

“Are the unions broadly supportive of that direction of thought?”

“There has been a change recently, hasn’t there, in terms of seeing pharmacists rather than your GP?”