Speeches by Yang.

“I agree with my hon. Friend, who has a deep interest in her local clubs. Fans need to be able to see their clubs perform in their local area. Many MPs who are in this debate have concerns about the relocation of their grounds or lack of appropriate grounds. The final problem is ownership. The first two problems have sh…”

“I agree with my hon. Friend, who is an advocate for his local club, that too many clubs across the country are suffering from the unfair distribution through the football pyramid. In fact, that is the first issue I will describe: the problem with the money going in. The last four decades have seen a complete transforma…”

“So you are sceptical about whether the current measures to improve the quality of data will get us back to that pre-pandemic benchmark.”

“When you spoke to us in November, you said, in relation to the labour force survey, “We do not know how much faith we can put in it”, which, to me, speaks to a level of not much confidence back in November. Has your confidence risen since then?”

“Is this the May 2024 letter?”

“Are you satisfied, Dr Pill, that your requests in that letter have been or are being satisfied?”

“I realise, Mr Bailey, that we did not quite ask you what your level of confidence is right now.”

“Dr Pill, I appreciate the comments you and the other panellists have made on the uncertainty around the future trade tariffs and trade deals that are on the table. I want to ask a really specific question. In the event of the threatened steel and aluminium tariffs coming into effect next week, what is the game plan tha…”

“You mentioned measures that you are already taking. Can you name some of the specific measures you use to pick up on the effects of trade diversion and so on? Have you changed your evidence-gathering methodology? Are there specific measures that you are taking?”

“I have a series of questions about the data. First, Mr Bailey, can I just clarify that I heard you correctly when you broadly said that, at present, you do not know whether the productivity decrease last year is a facet of the revised ONS data or whether it is real? Is that your broad view?”

“When we spoke to the ONS and Sir Ian Diamond, the national statistician, last month, he told us that he was “very confident” about the labour force survey data and, in particular, the data on inactivity. I was wondering if I could go through the panel and ask, on a scale of “not very” to “very confident”, how confident…”

“Are you very confident in the inactivity data?”

“I thank the Secretary of State for her very clear statement. The bigger picture that the Opposition are missing here is that the British media at large have greatly suffered from a lack of access in Gaza during the deadliest war on record for journalists. My former colleagues have variously been denied entry and had un…”

“The Sport Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley South (Stephanie Peacock), was kind enough to meet me and Reading football club fans last year to discuss the urgent need for an independent football regulator. Since then, the legislation has been held up in the other place by Conservative peers, and I was app…”

“8. What steps she is taking to help improve the financial sustainability of English football clubs.”

“Do you have a sense of where those people who are using it for their first home lie in the income spectrum? Is it quite a broad range?”

“I have a couple of questions related to the distributional elements and the impact of the LISA on means-testing benefit entitlement. Mr Lewis, you mentioned before that the most risk-averse individuals, particularly low-income individuals, will be put off investing in a LISA because of the withdrawal penalty. I was won…”

“Given that behaviour takes a long time to change, and there are reasons why low-income people are more risk averse, if you were to do that scrapping, as you suggest, or limit it at £5,000, is there any modelling of behaviour that you would expect—I see Mr Byrnes shaking his head—so that people would change that into an…”

“Do I hear both Mr Byrnes and Ms Fairweather as saying, “Keep the cash ISAs and their level until that work has been done”? Is that what you are saying?”

“I am hearing you, Mr Stone, talking about changing the incentives as opposed to getting rid of cash ISAs and funnelling people through compulsion.”