Speeches by Taylor.

“Yes, I am just trying to be devil’s advocate a bit there.”

“Louise, we spent yesterday afternoon at a roundtable discussing financial education in schools and we had an interesting group of young people who were very supportive of that. What specific skills and information do you think people need and how easily available is it? Does it differ between what women need and what m…”

“Roni, a lot of your initial growth was bootstrapping and the debt route, which is the traditional route, particularly for those of us who are involved in property. But did you find scaling up was the more difficult part?”

“We have covered some of the ground that I was going to touch on, but I want to take you back to this issue around failure. Something that we looked at when we spoke to female entrepreneurs in Birmingham was that, on the statistics, far more of the businesses that fail are male run than female run. Which leads me on to …”

“Thank you. Devie, do you have anything to add?”

“This touches very much on Louise’s realm, but I would like to ask the other witnesses about it. What financial education, Izzy, did you have prior to starting your business and do you think that this adequately equipped you to get off the ground?”

“That is really interesting. Financial education is a subject that I am very keen on. One of the things we talked about yesterday was how we make that financial education exciting to young people and get them to take it on board, as opposed to listening to, potentially, social media influencers who are not always—someti…”

“That is what I was getting at; thank you, Devie.”

“Does anybody think there is sometimes a risk of that kind of education holding people back, particularly women, as opposed to men who are more likely to take risks? We as women are often less likely to take risks, particularly if we have had that sort of education: money does not grow on trees, save up the pennies and …”

“Until the election I was a commercial property solicitor acting for a number of residential and commercial property developers. I was also a North Warwickshire borough councillor until I resigned a couple of months ago.”

“I recently spoke to a constituent who wanted to have a baby with her partner. She was told by her ICB that because of her partner’s situation—her partner already had a child—she would not qualify for any rounds of IVF. I looked into it and found that to be the case in other ICBs too. This needs to be taken into account…”

“Q As a follow-up, also at Hams Hall, JLR has a battery assembly plant, and its representatives told me that it could probably power the whole of the industrial estate there, but that there was no chance that it would be able to get a grid connection. Is there an estimate of those sorts of things, which are feasible and…”

“Q James, I would like to ask you a question first. We heard a lot on earlier panels about the number of permissions that have been granted but not yet delivered. How do you think your members can be helped by the Bill to deliver those homes? Also, when we talk about affordable housing, how much of that really needs to …”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. Like her, my first political activism was campaigning against section 28; that is what made me join our wonderful party. I feel truly supported by her and by my other lesbian colleagues in this place. It was that rhetoric, and comments that our relationships an…”

“Q I would like to focus again on local planning authorities. I am acutely aware, from my constituency in North Warwickshire and Bedworth, of the under-resourcing of planning authorities, and this Bill enables us to charge increased fees, but I am also aware of the frustration from local developers and businesses about …”

“Q I am interested to hear your quite controversial views on the role of local councillors in the planning process. I am sure that a lot of developers might agree with you. We heard from the previous panel that planning with consent is key to securing good communities. How do you feel it is best to consult the public? S…”

“Q I was delighted recently to visit a National Grid substation at Hams Hall, in my North Warwickshire and Bedworth constituency. It is almost doubling in size to accommodate connections for High Speed 2, but people there also talked to me about the massive queue of projects that need connections if there is to be expan…”

“I am concerned by reports on social media that a disabled person in a wheelchair in Bedworth was stranded because their bus did not show up and several taxis refused to take a wheelchair. I am sick and tired of hearing how my vulnerable constituents are let down by Warwickshire’s buses, which is why I launched my petit…”

“Many of my constituents work at Jaguar Land Rover or in the motor manufacturing supply chain, and they are really concerned about 25% tariffs on exports to the US. Can the Secretary of State set out what steps he is taking to get those tariffs reduced and to support west midlands businesses before I meet Jaguar Land Ro…”

“Jonny, do you think that a reduced notice period would be proportionate and feasible in these arrangements?”