Speeches by Aquarone.

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) for her advocacy on this issue, as well as the Minister for her announcement. I, too, have received many emails from desperately worried constituents as we approached and then crossed the cliff edge in adoption support funding. They will struggle to squar…”

“I want to ask Miriam specifically about the transformational improvements that you have seen in Cornwall. In the last discussion, we were taking about EPs being the lightest-touch way of bringing parties to the table. Certainly, some of the testimonies from Damien and Alistair made me realise that I was not aware of th…”

“Specifically to Judith, you have just completed a public consultation. I am interested in what it has told you so far, in particular about passenger expectations and local travel patterns. Has it revealed anything to you on those fronts?”

“Just talking about rural delivery, my rather simple and slightly bumpkin-ish view is that people want to get buses to places they want to go at times they want to travel at.”

“That is possibly quite reductive and certainly radical. Do we need to get over, in rural areas in particular, the idea of bringing buses to people’s doors? Should we be looking at travel users making their own way to a place that might not be in the centre of every single village in order to catch a bus that fits the b…”

“Do we need to be able to drive to these hubs, in that case?”

“Yes, I agree.”

“Just building on integration, I know I am going to get lynched by the eco mob for saying this, but one mode of transport that is still quite popular in rural areas is the motor car. You may have heard my previous question to the previous panel about whether we need to rethink the model of rural public transport a bit. …”

“I mean very much the latter.”

“I want to think about the question of enhanced partnerships and how much of that they could do. I will build on your example, if I may. One argument would be that franchising, for instance, would allow the revenue from that popular route to subsidise a much more dedicated either DRT or small local electric minibus serv…”

“Is there one measure in particular that you are particularly proud of from yesterday’s results?”

“Can you tell us what the number was for very good satisfaction overall?”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered coastal communities. I am delighted to be leading my first ever debate in this Chamber, on the vital topic of coastal communities. I am very grateful to Members from across the House who supported my application for the debate, and I thank the Backbench Business Committee f…”

“T4. Farmers in North Norfolk are an incredible bunch who have shown resilience through tough times and are still innovating and diversifying, but there are more tough times ahead. What one thing does the Secretary of State think my farmers should be doing to secure their future in the face of so many challenges?”

“I am immensely grateful to Members from across the House for their contributions and for echoing my call. I want to mention a couple of points that I thought were exceptionally noteworthy. My hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Steve Darling) and the hon. Member for South West Devon (Rebecca Smith) spoke about the pride…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that hospitals face challenges not just with their state or accessibility but with the affordability of housing for NHS workers?”

“I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, and I am pleased to associate myself with the sentiment behind his remarks. I think it was my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Ed Davey), when he was Energy Minister in the coalition, who scoped out the possibility of an offshore ring main for East An…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his contribution. I am a little surprised. I am not too familiar with Reform’s tax policies, but I am not sure whether that is just me or most of us. Nevertheless, I hope that I have done my neighbour, the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Richard Tice), a favour by raising some of the ch…”

“I do think that more should be done. It is a classic example both of unintended consequences from the explosion of a successful tech platform that was originally designed for people to let out spare rooms and is now a mainstream booking platform, and of the inevitable fact that legislation moves more slowly than life. …”

“It is not ideological; we must be pragmatic in these things. The right sort of holiday lets can bring in welcome tourism to North Norfolk, but there is a safety issue regarding regulation, which I am very sympathetic to. I would be very interested in talking in more detail about our shared interest in this matter at an…”