Speeches by Munt.

“But you have said that quality is important.”

“I am amazed that you are saying that you have case review workers who do not understand the basics of evidence. But we are also talking about the oversight, are we not?”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of recycling end-of-life tyres. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. The Government have placed the circular economy at the heart of their agenda. The circular economy taskforce has been established and is expected to report back later …”

“Yes, indeed; I shall come to that shortly. The previous Government talked a great deal about the circular economy, had their own circular economy strategy and brought forward consultations on a number of measures to close certain loopholes that created an opening for waste crime. Sadly, despite multiple commitments to …”

“I agree with the hon. Gentleman that that should be the case. We need to tighten up the licensing regulation and how the whole process works, so that we can reduce the amount of damage that is done. According to global trade data, the UK disposes of approximately 600,000 tonnes of end-of-life tyres each year. About 350…”

“Will the Minister also meet Henry Hodge, who is part of Black-Ram Recycling and one of the people who informed me about this particular problem with tyres? That is in the constituency just next door, so it is an easy trip.”

“It is really helpful of the Minister to ask people to contact Crimestoppers, but I wonder whether the Department can do more to demonstrate how it is prosecuting people who break the law. Enforcement is incredibly important—”

“I recognise that there are very good schemes for those on lower incomes and that heating homes is really important. For many older properties and properties in conservation areas, as fast as we heat the homes, the heat just goes out the windows. In my area, where there are lots of older homes and homes in conservation …”

“7. What steps he is taking to help improve the energy efficiency of homes.”

“We need to tell people when it is doing this stuff.”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“I welcome the broad outline of what the Minister is describing in this draft order. I just wanted to highlight that particular case, which is very distressing for the constituent concerned.”

“Although this is a slightly different situation, I want to clarify what the Home Office’s response would be to the case of one of my constituents. She came into the UK with her partner and sought leave to remain. He was arrested four times for domestic abuse, and she alerted the Home Office to the fact that it had happ…”

“That is slightly slack language, but you know what I mean.”

“Yes, that is right. It was descoped. We have had quite a reasonable amount of evidence about significant delays, particularly in possession claims, because of a lack of bailiffs. How are you going deal with modernising enforcement? I get a very great sense of the fact that, if there is no enforcement, everyone just goe…”

“That is good. Can I move to enforcement? That was one of the things that got binned in the reform programme, did it not?”

“I am really talking about the county court staff, who we have met, who are doing the day-to-day slog of getting this stuff into the system. Will it be tested with them?”

“Yes, with the people who are doing that kind of work on a day-to-day basis.”

“That would be good. If I can roll back a bit, we have talked already about centralisation. I am not sure it has been elucidated very clearly, but one gets the sense that, if I were to make it vaguely pictorial, when we centralise things the people who were in the places where stuff was happening before lose their owner…”

“I think that would be a good thing. Do you think so too, Chair?”