Speeches by Hoare.

“Given the nature and detail of your work, would I be right to suspect that if those statistics were collated and available in the public sphere, you would have seen them, noticed them and come across them?”

“The Minister and the Government are to be commended for trying to wrestle with this issue, and where there can be cross-party consensus, let us build on and foster it. Lots of groups of people who come to this country generate complaints, but one group that does not are those who come from New Zealand and Australia to …”

“Is the Minister, and other Ministers who are involved in this area, fully seized of the fact that this is a very unusual situation, in that the professional bodies and the lion’s share of practitioners are calling for regulation? It is very unusual that they want to see regulation.”

“The Minister will know that this is the second Adjournment debate on this issue that he has had to respond to in these last several months. Given the fact that most practitioners want to see regulation and the public want to see regulation, does my hon. Friend share my concern that the Government seem to be very slow o…”

“As heating oil and petrol prices go up in rural North Dorset, my constituents are hearing the Chancellor echo one of her predecessors in effectively saying, “Crisis? What crisis?” She needs to actively get a grip on this issue. Motorists in rural areas use their cars because they have to. The vast majority of my consti…”

“Secretary of State, let us not rehearse the damp squib of yesterday’s spring statement. If anybody thinks that there is stability in the UK economy, they are living in cloud cuckoo land.”

“Secretary of State, your party waited 14 long years to be in government. You are now in the driving seat. You have overlapping matrices, strategies, boards, plans, and turf warfare between Westminster Departments and the Treasury, and between Westminster Departments and the NIO. Do you share a growing concern that it i…”

“Will the Minister, in listening mode, listen to Welsh sheep farmers who are desperately concerned about being able to access Australian and New Zealand sheep shearers this year, as this is now an animal welfare issue? What conversations has she had with her right hon. Friend the Home Secretary to ensure that those Comm…”

“We agree on that.”

“I am absorbing by osmosis your energy.”

“You have now.”

“It wasn’t a personal criticism of you, Matthew.”

“It takes two to tango, Secretary of State.”

“Is your dance card full, Chairman? I think the Secretary of State and you could do a rumba up and down the room.”

“But the question is who finds them, and how?”

“Secretary of State, on the point that Ms Hanna has been raising, the “timidity” of the NIO on this is slightly dispiriting, in that the points are drawn and the picture is painted but the rest of the dots are not quite joined up. There is surely scope and space here for the NIO and the guarantors of the Good Friday agr…”

“A militarily degraded Iran would be welcomed by both the region and the world, but an Iran that still possesses enriched uranium and has the potential to become a failed state is something to be avoided at all costs—the Prime Minister recognises that. While it is uncertain what President Trump’s plan is, at some point …”

“You have mentioned trade deals. The Committee will find it interesting. Are you able to share with us the involvement of your office with Trade Ministers, the Treasury, et cetera, to ensure that the views and needs of Wales are taken into account as preparatory talks on trade deals are undertaken? What is the involveme…”

“Clearly, one of your priorities is to see the Welsh economy grow, and nobody is going to argue the merits of that, but we all appreciate that Wales is a part of the UK economy and the UK is part of the global economy. Taking a bit of a stocktake as of now and casting forward, what have you done or, indeed, what could b…”

“Finally from me—I have to go to another meeting, so I cannot stay for the whole thing—you mentioned the work that Nick is doing on SPS. The default position is that the SPS agreement with the European Union is de facto a good thing, but there are quite a lot of mixed voices in the agricultural communities about potenti…”