Speeches by Champion.

“We have two and a half hours, Minister.”

“I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend’s points. The methodology throughout—I will come on to it later—has been flawed, if not straight wrong in some cases. I would much rather that the research he is talking about—on the methodology—was done years in advance, rather than on the hoof as seems to be happening now. The G…”

“I will indeed be talking about the pub industry. I thank all the Members who have been campaigning so hard on this particular point for the last two years. The hon. Member will need to read the speech afterwards—it will be brilliant. We will try to protect our hospitality industry. While this debate is not focused on a…”

“I hope to amplify the hon. Lady’s points later in my speech. Glass is not just another packaging material; it is infinitely recyclable.”

“My hon. Friend makes a point that I was not aware of. I have been in contact with loads of different industries, but not that particular one. It seems as though it is the same sort of double payment that hospitality is facing. That absolutely needs to be addressed. Businesses have also been told that they need to move …”

“It is reassuring that we are going to have the consultation. Would it not have been much better to have had it before the scheme was implemented? The Minister mentioned a meeting with my constituency business, Beatson Clark. That meeting only happened because I urged the previous Secretary of State and the Minister to …”

“Can the Minister tell us whether that will be the 75% discount that the glass industry is asking for? Does she know what the falling rates will be, please?”

“I completely agree with the hon. Member’s points, because I agree with the polluter pays principle—I believe that is at the heart of this issue—but the people who are paying are our workers, our hospitality businesses and the poorest people in the world who would have been getting £1 million. They are the people paying…”

“I absolutely support what my hon. Friend says. GMB and Beatson Clark have been fantastic on this issue, as have other unions. We should never forget the human impact of the debates that we have in this Chamber. When we talk about numbers, percentages and import tariffs, we forget that it is the people making the produc…”

“As I said, I think the principles of the scheme are laudable. What frustrates me is that it is disincentivising using renewable materials, which in the long term are much cheaper. Instead, it is driving businesses to plastics, which have a very real cost on our environment as well as on our pockets. The Minister needs …”

“Matt, I think these questions are for you, but if not, please pass them over. What discussions has the FCDO had around ringfencing grant funding for low-income countries? There seems to be an assumption that private investment will flood in, but for low-income countries and the projects that they are likely to host, th…”

“When it comes to climate finance, how do you capture data on women and girls, and on how we are helping, supporting and mitigating?”

“Matt, you were nodding.”

“Ros, apologies if I missed this. On women and girls specifically, how much conversation, co-ordination and leverage do you have over the other FCDO programmes? The climate impact does not happen in isolation.”

“Would expanding the team help?”

“We have always been very impressed with our teams at the World Bank and in other multilaterals. With the staffing changes going on, what are you doing to protect and maybe even increase those teams so that they have more influence? Can you give us an example where we have been able to amplify the voice of a low-income …”

“The Minister was telling us how we are the global leader in this area. If we hit a 20-year low, what impact will that have on the confidence of other donor countries?”

“We have always been very impressed with our teams at the World Bank and in other multilaterals. With the staffing changes going on, what are you doing to protect and maybe even increase those teams so that they have more influence? Can you give us an example where we have been able to amplify the voice of a low-income …”

“Would expanding the team help?”

“Thinking about what you said about humanitarian work, that tends to be work with local people on the ground, while we have seen that climate money tends work more with Governments, businesses and larger groups. Is there a less bureaucratic way in which you are trying to get some of that money down to the local people?”