Speeches by Aquarone.

“I have a couple of supplementaries, but I am interested in your opening answer to this question. Do you think that the current permit system—the latest iteration of it—is working as intended?”

“I want to seek specific clarification from the Minister about whether he thinks that these provisions will improve or solve the situation where an unmarried parent tragically dies before the birth of their child. Will this make it easier for their parenthood to be entered on the birth certificate? My hon. Friend the Me…”

“Do not get me wrong, I am a big fan of this whole idea, so much so that I have been bothering other Committees about their equivalents. Amendments 17 to 20 would make the national underground asset register more available and transparent. As Labour Members have already said, the Bill will give quite a lot of power to t…”

“I beg to move amendment 17, in clause 58, page 63, leave out lines 35 and 36. This amendment is linked to Amendments 18 to 20. See explanatory statement to Amendment 20.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Hobhouse. Given his comments, the hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip may be interested in the hearing the Transport Committee is holding on street works tomorrow—I will stop promoting other Committees at that point, except to say that I have been badgering the …”

“I am well aware of the Minister’s frustration with mobile parking apps and I sympathise. Likewise, there is the frustration of having to take two separate bits of physical ID to a bank branch on two separate occasions to get a simple credit card approved. However, I cannot agree with the Minister’s accusation that new …”

“I am a big supporter of the affirmative approach, so the Minister’s words provide great reassurance. I am slightly confused by what he said about use cases being invalidated, but I will come back to that. My main reason for withdrawing amendment 17 is that, as he correctly identified—he got me—this is not just about No…”

“I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Turner. Don’t get me wrong: there are huge opportunities to improve the seamlessness of services for all users, regardless of whether they access those services digitally or not. Through new clause 9, I want to establish a right for those who do not wish to or cannot u…”

“It may be wishful thinking. I fear that if we pass the Bill as it stands, we may find ourselves in a similar situation to the postcode address file in a few years’ time, with a vast wealth of data that could unlock growth for businesses being locked behind a paywall, leading to restriction on businesses’ ability to gro…”

“Would you go as far as to say that investing in public transport could reduce the welfare bill?”

“You have already all implied that there is a correlation between transport, poverty and economic inequality. If you have any other comments on that, I would welcome them. I want to ask you specifically about your views on a subset of economic inequality, which is those who are jobseekers. How does a lack of reliable or…”

“One can support the other, of course.”

“Thank you for all your contributions. I want to ask a magic wand question, but I will put some context around it. The magic wand question would be: how would you see resources allocated by Government or local councils to improve bus services? We have heard a lot about the problems or the negative impacts of poor servic…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. I will make some brief remarks, which I hope the Minister can respond to. My constituency of North Norfolk suffers heavily from flooding. Many of my constituents have benefited from the Flood Re scheme, so I wholeheartedly welcome this measure, which will increase…”

“I want to speak to amendment 3, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Pippa Heylings), which deals specifically with coastal erosion. My constituency plays host to a whole load of energy infrastructure that is vital to our security and our renewable transition. We have the Bacton energy hub, whi…”

“Those are two very interesting but perhaps quite separate arguments. I have some sympathy with constraint as a way of reducing carbon emissions, but to go back to the furrow, if you like, of alternative or maybe quite radical or creative regional expansion, I don’t mean current airports. If you look at where capacity i…”

“I do not doubt that that was an enabling factor, but one reason why being citizen-focused works so well is that it is much easier to build trust and credibility bit by bit by telling people why doing something differently will be better for them. In that way, we do not end up in the horrendous situation of facing yet a…”

“Absolutely. There are so many layers upon which data governance, data infrastructure and data practices must be established, and data retrievability is one of the things that sit between those layers and the application or interface that uses them.”

“This is absolutely not a pitch to be a member of the Bill Committee, but I would certainly be grateful for the opportunity to implement my views in the design and delivery of Britain’s very own Tiger Leap into the data-driven revolution. Estonia is a crystal-clear example proving that the results of such a transformati…”