Speeches by Champion.

“I agree 100%. These consequences —one hopes that they are unintended consequences—are the stark evidence that has been put to the Minister, but seemingly it is not making any difference. I go back to the point that my hon. Friend the Member for St Austell and Newquay made. EPR is intended to apply to household waste on…”

“My hon. Friend makes a sound point, which I will reinforce. Let me go through some—I emphasise “some”—of the organisations that have been in touch with me about this issue. They include Vinarchy, one of the world’s largest wine companies; the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates; the Campaign for Real Ale, CAM…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. The glass sector has always supported the principle behind EPR. It lobbied, on sound environmental and safety grounds, against inclusion in the deposit return scheme, knowing and accepting that that would mean the inclusion of all glass products in EPR. Yet the terms of EPR…”

“Sir David Attenborough’s latest film, “Ocean” revealed the shocking devastation caused by bottom trawling and asked the Government to take action at the UN conference in just four weeks. Will the Government use the conference to announce a ban on all bottom trawling in marine protected areas? Why has the Minister still…”

“15. What steps he is taking to prepare for the 2025 UN ocean conference.”

“It is always a pleasure to serve under your guidance, Mr Vickers, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Brent West (Barry Gardiner) for securing this debate. It is very poignant to have it on the day that the Climate Change Committee is saying that we will not reach our climate targets. I will focus on building on …”

“First, I would like to correct the record, because the right hon. Gentleman is anything but simple. He has always been a leading light in every debate he contributes to. In my constituency we reclaim wood that would have otherwise gone into landfill and turn it into pellets, but unfortunately the Government subsidy for…”

“Will the Minister be covering the regulations on due diligence and when they will be published?”

“May I thank the Committee, because it recently granted an estimates day debate that happened to fall straight after the cuts were announced? More than 50 Members tried to speak in that debate, but only half were able to. If we could go for a Tuesday morning in a timely manner—in other words, before the spending review—…”

“Might I push back on that? Obviously, for the most vulnerable in the world it is a double whammy, but I think there is a specific case to debate where the UK exerts its influence through its aid budget. Were we to combine the two, we can only really speculate and not particularly have influence over the US. It is a top…”

“Madam Deputy Speaker, you know that I am a proud steel MP, so it has pained me to watch my business wither on the vine under the last Government. I am incredibly grateful to the Minister for acting so decisively to save British Steel, but in the steel strategy, can she commit to look at the underlying problems affectin…”

“But what is the vision? What do you want to do? We understand the financial constraints but, if you were starting with a blank canvas, what is your vision for development?”

“Let me focus on you and your vision. The Center for Global Development and Save the Children have done quite detailed analysis on the cuts that you have made. Basically, you will have to axe all bilateral support for education, water sanitation, nutrition, sexual and maternal health, and support for women and girls. Yo…”

“Hello, Prime Minister. You know that defence and foreign aid go hand in hand in preventing conflicts and dealing with humanitarian crises. Now you have slashed the aid budget, I am interested to hear who you think is safer in the world.”

“And can I—”

“This is my final question. I am interested that you have decoupled aid from the ODA commitments. If the Chancellor is right and GNI goes up—and, indeed, if the Home Office is right and they are able to get down the number of refugees who are in hotels in this country—will the aid budget go up as a consequence?”

“Another cornerstone, I would argue, Prime Minister, is international law. I am not a lawyer, but it feels to many that Israel is acting without any accountability toward international law. You are a lawyer and our Prime Minister, so can you please tell us how the UK will comply with the International Court of Justice’s…”

“What are we doing to hold countries to account?”

“And Israel and the occupation of Palestine?”

“I have spoken to many humanitarian workers around the world who feel that Israel is not being held to account, particularly when it comes to international humanitarian law. Will we be pushing for an inquiry into the 15 humanitarian workers who were killed on 23 March?”