Speeches by McDonagh.

“Yes. That would be a shame in itself, but it would allow people to live closer to where they work and spend less on transport costs. It seems a win-win all round, so I am very keen that you persuade your colleagues in Housing and Local Government to go that bit further.”

“I was delighted to hear from the Prime Minister in the run-up to the general election that you were tackling the issue of building on the green belt, but I think there is much further to go. I wonder whether you have looked at the suggestions that about 1 million homes could be built close to outer London train station…”

“Ms Curtice, I just want to understand about the PIP side of things. Obviously, the thing about PIP is that, as I say to my constituents all the time, it does not matter whether you are the poorest person in the country or the richest person in the country: it is not means-tested; it is dependent on your circumstances. …”

“Because, for an awful lot of people I know, it would not be anywhere near 18% of their income.”

“So you know what their overall income is?”

“But you and I know that if everybody is responsible, nobody is responsible.”

“You mustn’t get much sleep.”

“Mr Rathi, you have obviously read the memo and you have got God on growth, but could that mean that, actually, the FCA are involved in a bit of virtue signalling? I understand that you recently scrapped the requirement to have a consumer duty board champion on every board. It costs nothing, but it does concentrate the …”

“You save no money and you save no bureaucracy. There is an opportunity for somebody on the board to have the responsibility to concentrate on the consumer duty. My late sister was the consumer duty board person at Standard Life. She read every single document that went out to consumers, because she accepted that as her…”

“I just have a personal concern about the breadth of your work, the expanding area of your work, and the involvement of quite vulnerable people with not very much money. In something you said, you referred to them as investors. This group of people did not think they were investing in anything. They thought they were ge…”

“But the commissioner is then toothless, is she not?”

“If the findings of the commissioner do not matter, perhaps it should be another target for abolition—save some money?”

“One piece of anonymous information, and lots of concerns about the people involved and previous complaints. In the FCA’s response to the complaints commissioner, you have disagreed with her findings and are not taking any further action. What is the point of having an independent complaints commissioner if regulators c…”

“So the complaint in 2021 was not the first time you had heard about them?”

“The Complaints Commissioner recently upheld a complaint against the FCA about the way that it handled the failure of Safe Hands, the funeral plan company. Specifically, the commissioner says that the FCA did not act on a tip-off about Safe Hands in 2021. I appreciate that your response is that you get lots of tip-offs …”

“Madam Deputy Speaker, may I, through you, wish all Members of the House a very happy St Patrick’s day? I rise to speak on new clause 14. What it proposes is not brain surgery, and it is not new or exciting, but it is an essential part of how we approach the enormous problem of children living in temporary accommodation…”

“The NHS has a drug repurposing office. To date, it has repurposed one drug, and that was for breast cancer. Does my hon. Friend think that is good enough?”

“I have been to see the MHRA numerous times and have asked about repurposed drugs. Many pharmaceutical companies are worried about repurposing drugs; the fear is that if glioblastoma research were to affect the main cause for having the drug, that might make the drug less successful. We have beseeched the MHRA to treat …”

“Through you, Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to apologise to the young black man on the Northern line tube from Colliers Wood this morning for having to spend his journey looking at me sobbing my heart out. It must have been a very odd experience. I wanted to say to him, “I am not just sad; I am angry.” I am angry at the …”

“Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is a whole range of new modern immunotherapy drugs that could be used on these cancers? They already exist, they are used to treat other people, but they are simply not tried. The cost of those trials is not overwhelming and we can do them, and the NHS repurposing project should…”