Speeches by Aquarone.

“9. What steps he is taking to reduce the potential impact of low-flying military aircraft on people living in North Norfolk constituency.”

“Dozens of my constituents have contacted me to express their frustration with the training patterns of both RAF and American fighter jets over North Norfolk’s towns and villages. It makes it hard to work, it traumatises pets, and in the case of one of my constituents it has left them with permanent hearing damage. They…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. I am delighted to respond to this debate on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, and congratulate the hon. Member for Hamble Valley (Paul Holmes) on securing it. In coastal communities such as North Norfolk, independent lifeboats are not just a valued community as…”

“They are really big numbers: 15 years and £5 billion. Is there another quite nearby barrier to delivering on that opportunity headroom if you take the skills problem away? I am interested in this from an economic growth perspective.”

“Stepping aside from initiatives that you as employers undertake, how good are we generally at attracting young people into manufacturing careers in this country?”

“It is not that we are not switching them on, we are just switching them off.”

“That is counterintuitive isn’t it? I would have thought that if there was a huge economic opportunity, it is because we have all the shiny new stuff and we just do not have the people to use it. Or have I misunderstood your answer?”

“That is not just distorting the order book.”

“How good are we at encouraging young people into manufacturing?”

“But we have the tech and the IP.”

“Am I right in thinking that if you solve some of those problems, that is up-front economic growth?”

“But if you have 15 years’ worth of stuff that you could bring forward, in my maths that is a pretty good way of delivering economic growth. Is there another problem caused if you solve the skills problem, or is this an easy win?”

“Jamie, are we sitting on a huge economic growth opportunity that could be transformative if we solve the skills issue?”

“I believe one of my colleagues will come back to gender balance in a moment. Benjamin, you said you would not want to fix my car, but you might have been able to fix my tractor at some point in your past career. Clearly, losing Massey to the French was unhelpful in encouraging automotive careers in Coventry, but are we…”

“You alluded to the Staffordshire example; are there any initiatives that help to showcase careers in transport manufacturing in particular? It sounds like transport museums might be one, but is there anything else that helps to showcase careers in transport?”

“Scientists at the Norwich research park and Quadram Institute are doing incredible work in the field of agri-science, which could transform the future of food for the better; in fact, the Quadram Institute will be visiting Parliament and briefing MPs during evidence week next month about this work. This research is per…”

“I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I am a serving Norfolk county councillor. It is two years since the Conservatives in Norfolk oversaw the closure of two convalescence facilities: Benjamin Court in Cromer and Grays Fair Court in Costessey, in the constituency of the hon. Mem…”

“Do the others agree with that?”

“Just stepping back a bit to the question of operating models, how well do you think the current legislation and operating regulatory framework accommodate both what we might describe as the traditional taxi model—I appreciate that many traditional taxi firms also use apps—and the pure, native, digital app-based model?”

“Very briefly, because you have both given different answers to the same problem, is the flooding a problem based upon the operating model simply because the digital native operators are just broadly more available across the whole country?”