Speeches by Moore.

“My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. One issue not normally considered is the reinstatement provisions after a solar farm has been implemented. A vast quantity of our prime agricultural land is being taken out of production, generally for a term of 20 to 25 years. Should not consideration be given to the state…”

“West Yorkshire police recently announced, to much fanfare, that areas such as Keighley and Ilkley would receive extra officers as part of a new neighbourhood policing team strategy. What seemed like a good and positive announcement hid the fact that the so-called new officers have been seconded from Operation Steerside…”

“I will be forever indebted to my constituent Clive Smith, who is also the president of the Haemophilia Society. He has been a long-standing advocate and a voice for those victims seeking justice for being affected and infected. Of course, time is of the essence and many victims still feel disillusioned and that the Gov…”

“Is there anything else to add from the two of you on that point that you want to expand on, or differs from your view? No? In terms of the contract that exists at the moment, is there anything within that that incentivises you as a provider to go above and beyond in terms of the offering to those residents?”

“Are these services that are provided by you as the provider or other charitable services?”

“Using that example of Wethersfield, there is regular transport that is put on from Wethersfield into the neighbouring towns; you are saying that that is not actually included within the contract that was awarded?”

“Following along the same themes, availability was mentioned when choosing a hotel location. What is your assessment of availability?”

“Everything you have mentioned relates to the capacity of the accommodation itself; you have mentioned that hotels should not be next to roads or highways and so on. But nothing you have mentioned relates to the impact on local services: GPs, schools, transport connectivity, which all have a direct impact. When you are …”

“As a provider, do you take into account the impact of capacity on other services beyond the accommodation itself when putting forward a recommendation to the Home Office?”

“What level of interaction do you have with local authorities as part of that recommendation to the Home Office?”

“So, to summarise, no actual observation or assessment criteria is done in terms of capacity and impact on additional services beyond the actual accommodation itself when assessing the criteria for hotel accommodation.”

“I want to just focus on performance management. The question applies to you all. The contracts allow you and the Home Office to set different performance targets for hotel accommodation. To what extent have you done that and negotiated that with the Home Office?”

“The same performance regime in relation to performance targets across all hotel accommodations?”

“To very quickly summarise, all three providers are not changing their performance targets for any type of hotel provision. That obviously relates to contingency hotels as well. Do you feel that if contracts were to be renegotiated further down the line, there is any cost effectiveness that can be achieved through the c…”

“Under the current hotel arrangement, would you accept there is a variation in terms of the standard of provision that is rolled out to those who are using the service from one hotel to another? From the visits that we have been doing, there is a great deal of variation in terms of the size of the community space that e…”

“Why has that not been audited as you have been going along and changed and adapted to reduce the cost to the taxpayer?”

“Thank you, Mrs Hobhouse.I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Norfolk (George Freeman) on securing a really important debate. There is no better champion on this issue in Parliament. He is bringing together many all-party parliamentary groups to specifically tackle and bring to the Minister’s attention the i…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank the hon. Member for Glastonbury and Somerton (Sarah Dyke) for securing this incredibly important debate. As has been indicated in all the contributions, we realise that small abattoirs are a vital part of our food supply chain and, therefore, of ou…”

“Baby Jack was just 16 months old when, on Boxing day 2022, he passed away from sudden unexplained death in childhood, which was incredibly heartbreaking. It is something that unfortunately we just do not know enough about. I want to commend Jack’s parents, Cheryl and Darren from Silsden, whom I have met. They have been…”

“We have had huge amounts of tariffs put on the UK, and then a trade deal to reduce them; there have been positive impacts on some industries, and potentially negative impacts on others. Today’s announcement of a UK-US trade deal has therefore given rise to more questions than answers. On one side, we have US officials …”