Speeches by Arthur.

“If you include waiting time, are drivers’ earnings rising or coming down in relation to inflation?”

“Exactly.”

“That driver could run 10 hours with your app and then switch over to Kimberly’s app.”

“But there is nothing to stop them from doing that?”

“If your business model is making it harder and harder for them to earn a living, those temptations will always be there, will they not?”

“Independent analysis suggests that drivers are earning much less than that, but I guess we can disagree about that. Can we move on to deactivation? Kimberly, you raised a good example of when you would deactivate a driver who is accused of not respecting the rights of a disabled person. You said you would deactivate an…”

“Yes, so it is a spurious—”

“Because there is loss of earnings there, and that is fundamentally unfair on the driver.”

“If the money is restored, that is great.”

“Let us pretend the complaint is malicious. You have deactivated the driver. Do they get compensation for that?”

“That would be interesting. Emma, what is the threshold in terms of a complaint from a customer for deactivating a driver? It is obviously a big step, is it not?”

“Thanks for making the point about video, Saskia. I am now kicking myself for not asking this in the previous session where video and audio recording came up. I do not want to lead you too much in your answer, but what access arrangements do you want around that recorded data? If you have a taxi or an Uber where you are…”

“Very quickly, James, before I was elected here last year I was a councillor in Edinburgh and I sat on the committee that dealt with taxi drivers. I thought that the flow of information between the police and the local authorities was very good and the police were quite precautionary in their approach. They would tell t…”

“I think this was covered earlier to some extent by Emma’s comments about wheelchair-accessible vehicles. My question was whether you think we should mandate these in local authorities. I think you already said yes to that earlier, but I guess it is about how we do that. First, do you have some idea in mind of what prop…”

“What a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Jonathan Davies) for so ably introducing the debate. The old and new towns of Edinburgh are designated a UNESCO world heritage site. My constituency includes just a small corner of the UNESCO designate…”

“I grew up just four or five miles from the plant, and I have to say that it is an area still recovering from Thatcher’s economic vandalism. I thank the Minister for his statement and for the work he has done over many months, as well as my hon. Friend the Member for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (Melanie Ward) for her work…”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing this petition to the House. On what analysis does he base his comment that people are more likely to be in prison for a social media tweet than for rape?”

“What a pleasure it is to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Roger. I thank the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) for so ably introducing the debate. Although the hon. Member for Guildford (Zöe Franklin) described her speech as being a little off-piste, I thank her for raising an importan…”

“I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman’s summing up; he is doing a great job. Those numbers invite some further investigation. Thirty per day does sound like quite a lot of arrests, but in how many cases was the communication the sole reason for the arrest? Was it just a matter of there being many other factors com…”

“This is a serious point. People who are worried about the financial situation in the country will save rather than spend, whether they are private individuals or business. But is not the very aim of this debate to fuel that speculation and make people feel more anxious?”