Speeches by Rushworth.

“Just to be clear, we are not the Government.”

“Thank you. I appreciate that.”

“Steve made a very interesting point that sparks a question. In your experience, do you feel that there is a difference between the way that local and international staff are treated by an international NGO for risk?”

“Are you still working in that world?”

“So it is not just the aftercare? There was very little training beforehand, and little awareness among staff of the situations that you might encounter.”

“My hon. Friend is doing a great job in explaining some of the new powers that the Bill will give our police. Police officers in my area to whom I have spoken find it absurd that it has taken until now to do so. Does my hon. Friend agree that these measures are such common sense that no reasonable party in the House sho…”

“I thank the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) for securing this debate; I got to know him well recently on our visit to the region. I also thank everybody who has spoken in the debate. I am rapidly rewriting my speech, because many things that I would have said have already been covered. I start by …”

“I thank the British public for bringing this petition forward so that we can debate it today, and thank those who have led on this issue. The petition comes from a place of real strong feeling among parents. This is not some blind moral panic; it is the lived experience of anybody who has raised a teenager in the last …”

“Next month, railway enthusiasts from around the world will come to my constituency, where we will mark the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington railway, which took off from the town of Shildon. Will my right hon. Friend ask the Rail Minister to meet me and other MPs along that route to talk about how the Go…”

“3. What steps she is taking to help improve local bus services.”

“I thank the Minister for that answer. The cost of transport is a huge cost of living pressure for children and young people in my constituency who are trying to access education and social and leisure opportunities. What assurance can the Minister give me that the buses Bill will end a system in which bus services are …”

“You have slightly answered what I was going to ask, which is it sounds to me that what you are saying is that value for money is not defined in terms of poverty reduction. Obviously, the International Development Act says that the purpose of international aid is poverty reduction. If not poverty reduction, then what go…”

“I thought you made a very powerful point about the economic benefits of saving lives and prolonging life and healthy life expectancy. First, with the Chair’s permission, could you share that data with us to go into this report? I think that was very helpful. I also wonder if you do any modelling looking at the macro le…”

“Presumably, there is some theory of change that says that if we invest in education or if we invest in the private sector—”

“Within that country?”

“The hon. Member is making an excellent speech, but some of the farmers in my constituents are concerned that the Liberal Democrats have talked about a land tax and a wealth tax. Will she tell us how that would affect the farmers in her constituency and mine?”

“I do not know why the right hon. Lady keeps saying that. We have not voted on the policy yet. There was a vote against a motion that was put forward by the Opposition. It was a cynical motion that was designed to make us want to vote against it, because it was so ridiculous.”

“T9. I thank the Government for improving the pay and housing conditions of our armed forces. Bishop Auckland has turned out some excellent young men and women into the armed forces, many of whom first went through our brilliant volunteer-led cadet forces. Without wishing to pre-empt the strategic defence review, will t…”

“Will the right hon. Member give way?”

“I am here to speak up for the farmers in my constituency of Bishop Auckland, which is a Labour farming community. Farmers in my area are worried. They put their trust in us at the general election, and why did they do so? Because they had been so badly let down for 14 years and they knew that the previous Government co…”