Speeches by Yang.

“Would anyone on the panel like to suggest how the Government could start to evaluate and rationalise tax reliefs?”

“I deeply welcome this long-awaited ceasefire and the release of the hostages. I thank the Prime Minister and his Ministers for their tireless work and international leadership on this front, including in the upcoming Gaza recovery summit, which is to be held in the UK later this week. I am glad to hear of the Prime Min…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this debate. Last night I co-hosted an event in Parliament for Wael al-Dahdouh, the former bureau chief of Al Jazeera in Gaza, whose family members have been killed, and five of whose colleagues were killed during a double strike on a hospital only a few weeks ago that also killed fo…”

“My hon. Friend’s stories remind me of stories that I hear in Reading, in my Earley and Woodley constituency. Angie is a nursing associate in the NHS, and her daughter wishes to study paramedic science and also work in the NHS. However, for that to happen, Angie’s daughter needs a route to settlement in order to be elig…”

“The decision that the MPC is facing later this month is about active versus passive quantitative tightening. The MPR piece that you linked to in that report suggests that the costs of active QT as opposed to passive QT could be upwards of £60 billion. I would not choose the adjective “modest” for that—”

“What would you choose to describe that?”

“I think we all understand that it is not in the power of the Bank or of the MPC to travel back in time. That is not the counterfactual that I was trying to consider.”

“Governor, in your recent monetary policy report you have a section describing how Bank staff have updated their analysis of the effects of QT on gilt yields, which, as my colleague Chris Coghlan mentioned, impacts the cost of borrowing for the Government. It concerns me that your Bank estimate now suggests that there w…”

“Are there precedents or forms of data sharing that we could learn from other central banks or national statistical bodies where there is access, and which the Committee or the Government should look at?”

“Thank you. I think the Committee has heard your plea for more access to commercial data.”

“Thank you. Would anyone else like to add to that?”

“Thank you, Governor. This is an open question to anyone on the panel: while the ONS is getting its house in order, and while it will take time to feed through to the transformed labour force survey, are there other datasets out there that could enhance your decision making, if you were to access them? What difference w…”

“Governor, you slightly pre-empted my question about the ONS, which the Committee has discussed in depth. To what extent does the ONS’s new plan for economic statistics address the concerns that you have raised before with this Committee? What are the biggest remaining gaps?”

“The right hon. Gentleman has spent the past five minutes circling around figures gathered by a consultancy that aids the super-wealthy to migrate from this country. Where is the Conservative party getting its economic ideas from? It speaks volumes that he has spent so much time up to this point speaking for the 15,000 …”

“T4. Will the Minister join me in congratulating Reading’s University Medical Group, a GP practice in my constituency that was recently awarded the gold Pride in Practice award by the LGBT Foundation? When I visited that practice last week, the doctors raised the issue of transgender care. Many constituents have also wr…”

“I strongly welcome the Foreign Secretary’s historic move to recognise the state of Palestine and thank him for all the work he has done to progress this issue. While we follow the news from Gaza, let us remember the journalists who have risked their lives to bring us the news. My constituent, the former managing direct…”

“I very much welcome the Secretary of State’s focus on protecting water customers, because my constituents and I have seen our Thames Water bills go up dramatically. We want to know that those bill increases are going towards improving the infrastructure and customer service, as opposed to payouts to bosses that happene…”

“The IMF is trying to deal with the tendency of fiscal tinkering around both forecasts. Is it your view that the OBR can carry on with those two forecasts a year, so long as the Government look through the second forecast in the spring and make all the changes they need in the autumn, rather than responding immediately?”

“Unfortunately, despite those efforts, there is still tremendous political and media pressure around the point estimates of headroom. The IMF has made a recommendation to de-emphasise those point estimates in your assessments of rule compliance. Obviously, that speaks to something that is not directly within your remit …”

“My last question is from the Institute for Government’s reflections on the IMF’s recommendations. The Institute for Government describes the media obsession with the headroom target as seemingly “uniquely British”, in its words. I was wondering whether you had a view on the institutional culture and the institutional s…”