Speeches by Moore.

“Did the Home Office go through a full stage gate process when deciding whether to progress and use the Crowborough site?”

“Do you agree it is value for money?”

“Okay. In an unpublished letter to the Committee, we understand that a community group, Crowborough Shield, alleged that the Crowborough site had been considered in 2021-22 but rejected by the previous Administration due to the site being considered unsuitable and poor value for money. Would you agree that this site is …”

“Within the Home Office, you must know surely if previous Administrations had considered Crowborough.”

“The draft regulations will extend the current legislative deadlines for registration to submit information to the Health and Safety Executive under UK REACH. They will also extend the period during which downstream users and distributors who were importing from the EU before the end of the EU exit implementation period…”

“I commend the hon. Gentleman’s excellent speech, particularly the three points that he has just made, with which I absolutely agree. I put on record my thanks to Maria Culley from the National Nanny Association, who has been working tirelessly on this issue, and who is a constituent of mine. I have met Children and Fam…”

“I appreciate that the Minister is short for time. Will he write to me in response to my question about the loophole associated with domestic abuse claims?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stuart. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Blake Stephenson) on securing this timely debate. We are here to talk about improving the UK visa system. That has to start with addressing one of the most cynical flaws in our system, which is t…”

“I am aware of that, as it resonates with some of the casework I get in my constituency in Keighley. I am also aware of people being encouraged to fabricate false allegations by so-called online legal advisers. The scale of the problem has been amplified through a freedom of information request from the BBC. It found th…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. It is perhaps not surprising that we are here talking about yet another piece of legislation that will impose further harm and unnecessary burdens on our farmers. We have already had the family farm tax, which has now regrettably come into force, the added…”

“If the Minister were speaking to a farmer, would she say that this is dancing on the head of a pin? We are talking about reducing an annual delinked payment to a farming business from a potential £30,000 to about £600. Given all the additional overheads placed on farming businesses that produce food, the Opposition bel…”

“The reason I ask is that some concern has been expressed about the fact that you were sitting in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. Therefore, I ask how we as a Committee, and others, can seek reassurance that the appointment is completely independent, not aligned with political appointments, or anything like that, s…”

“Have you calculated how many local areas you will be looking at?”

“Is there a risk that that could be used against any of the outcomes of the inquiry in three years’ time? Is there any perception of political association that others may wish to use as a narrative further down the line?”

“I want to stay on the theme of local inquiries, if that’s okay. Zoë, you mentioned and you repeated this point that you have all the information available and you are going back into areas to be able to ascertain those key themes. “Themes” has come up quite a few times, but what worries me—my saying this will not surpr…”

“Coming back to my question, how can we be confident about the funding? As a follow up, I hope the funding envelope would not restrict how many local areas can be explored, and which ones are explored. I want to push on the £65 million.”

“To really push you on “We believe it is possible” with an envelope of £65 million: the inquiry, as I understand it, has not even announced which local areas it is going to be focusing on, or what the criteria are for which local areas there will be. Surely, therefore, the funding allocation is not known, when we do not…”

“Thank you all for your time this afternoon. Baroness Longfield, I want to pick up on the appointment process, as a supplementary. You said at the start that you are on a leave of absence from the House of Lords. Is your intention to go back in as a Labour peer after this inquiry?”

“So will we be looking at new areas being explored?”