Speeches by Prinsley.

“Thank you, Mr Chairman. The future funding of the BBC World Service is an issue that attracts serious interest across the House, from MPs of all different parties. I submitted the application with 17 signatures, but since then I have had a further 14 MPs declare an interest in speaking in the debate, so I now have more…”

“Yes.”

“Not particularly, although those 130 job losses are presently threatened. The whole thing is a very live issue. I know you do not have the gift of all the time in the world, but the sooner we do this, the quicker we can put pressure on the powers that be to try to preserve this thing.”

“After 570 days, 59 hostages remain. Does the Minister agree that their unconditional release is a key to the ceasefire? What did Prime Minister Mustafa have to say about that yesterday?”

“Yesterday, I visited Hinkley Point C, the largest building site in Europe, an international project built through close co-operation with European partners, and a powerful example of how trade and co-operation with Europe is essential to our success. “Big Carl” was at work. The largest crane in the world, manufactured …”

“People in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket must navigate pockmarked and pimpled streets—how depressing and frustrating! People are forced to accept a fear of damage or even injury as a precondition of using our roads, and they are locked in extended battles for compensation with the council and their insurers. We all kno…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I should like to speak this afternoon about the vital but vulnerable role of clinical academics. These are the people who combine frontline work in the hospitals with teaching and research at the universities. They are essential to the success of life scien…”

“I am asking for a debate on the growing national challenge of long-term conditions. I have spent my career managing incurable problems, learning the limits of medicine as optimism gives way to realism. More than 15 million people in England live with a long-term condition. They are not cured; they are just managed, oft…”

“Yes.”

“I understand from what I heard earlier that a Chamber debate would be long delayed, so I wonder whether a Westminster Hall debate might get the thing over the line more quickly.”

“It is obviously up to the distinguished members of this Committee.”

“I welcome this Bill, which will address the alarming proliferation of unsafe products in online marketplaces. I would like to talk particularly about the hazards of unsafe toys, which are increasingly being sold online. As a very recently retired ear, nose and throat surgeon—yesterday actually—I know the very real harm…”

“I thank the hon. Member for her intervention. I would point out the particular danger of button batteries—something that is well known to ENT surgeons—which cause perforation of the oesophagus and the trachea by a chemical reaction. In the last two years, 95% of consumers have purchased from online platforms, with appr…”

“Imagine an English village, if you still can—old houses around a village green, with a little school, a pub or two, a post office, a row of shops, and an ancient church with a creaking gate and some crooked headstones with fading bouquets shaded by ancient oaks. It may be a place where old maids hike to Holy Communion …”

“17. What steps he is taking to support the nuclear power sector.”

“Small modular reactors, as the Minister says, will play an important part in delivering clean, cheap and secure energy across this country. However, current rules require that any reactor must apply for regulatory justification, as if nuclear power was an entirely new practice instead of an existing one. That delays re…”

“It is a great honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. Decades of violence and displacement in Israel and Palestine have created psychological scars that will take generations to heal. For Israelis, the collective trauma of 7 October is still all too painful. Magen Inon is an Israeli peace activist whose pare…”

“Palmerston said that this country has no eternal allies and no perpetual enemies, only interests which are eternal and perpetual. Does the Minister agree that it is in our eternal interests for there to be security in Europe and a sovereign Ukraine? Will he congratulate the Prime Minister on his statesmanship and leade…”

“8. What steps he is taking to improve relations with the European Union.”

“Sadly, the misappropriation of religious belief to justify acts of terror and intimidation has become familiar across the world. We have seen the minds of too many of our young people corrupted by online pedlars of hate, so what action are this Government taking to tackle radicalisation at a time when xenophobia and in…”