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“The £600,000. So you don’t know what the impact is on businesses, or certainly you don’t recognise the figure provided by the local authority, but you have already arrived at a compensation figure.”

“At the moment, you don’t recognise the council’s figure; you don’t recognise the business improvement district’s figure. How many businesses were impacted? I was looking at the GSS numbers and I couldn’t quite understand. Do you know how many businesses were impacted?”

“Do you have your own number, then?”

“Can we stick to the impact on business for a moment? You have various estimates. We have heard from the business improvement district and the council that the financial impact on businesses is up to £20 million. Is that your understanding? Is that a ballpark figure that you recognise?”

“The GSS regulations.”

“Do you have a sense of the financial impact that it had? Can you put a figure on it?”

“Mr Hinton, what do you understand the impact caused by this outage on local businesses to have been?”

“We’re sticking to businesses.”

“But there might be a perception that your shareholders charge you what might be considered a very profitable rate of return on the funding that they provide to you.”

“Do you have a sense of the financial impact that it had? Can you put a figure on it?”

“It is not for now, but it would be helpful to understand the instrument, whether that went into another holding company or, if your shareholders are providing funding, what they charge you for it.”

“How much is—”

“I begin by offering my deepest sympathy to the family of Ethan McLeod, who died tragically in a car accident yesterday. He was a brilliant footballer and an inspiration to young people across Macclesfield. I am proud to present to the House a petition signed by 7,200 residents on paper, complemented by a further 11,714…”

“10. What steps his Department is taking to provide adequate funding for victim support services.”

“I welcome the increased funding. Victim support and the commissioning of those services is incredibly important, and the operational independence of police and crime commissioners has been invaluable in that regard. What assurances can Ministers provide that, with the abolition of PCCs, victim support will not be led b…”

“I completely agree. As the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) raised earlier, it is the Baltic countries—Poland, Finland, those that have had direct experience of Russian aggression—that are most clear-eyed about the Russian threat. We do not want a wishy-washy peace that does not deliver genu…”

“I add my commendation to the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) for securing this important debate. Hearing the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) speak reminded me of our trip to Ukraine earlier in the year. Thinking of surreal moments, it cannot be mor…”

“Ryan Cornelius, a British citizen, has been unfairly incarcerated in Dubai for the past 17 years. His son was six when he went to prison; he is now 23 years old. Some 150 parliamentarians from both Houses wrote to the Dubai authorities asking for Mr Cornelius’s release on the UAE’s national day—today—to no avail. Can t…”

“Will you publish the assessments so that producers and businesses know how big the divergence is?”

“You do not own the negotiations, which are led by Nick Thomas-Symonds are they not? I know that there are rumours out of Brussels that there are internal divisions in the debate around the mandate for the negotiations on the EU side, and some talk about it going beyond what was in the common understanding. I know that …”