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Points of Order — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Other
Robert William Henry Seely (Conservative, Centre-right): Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think I saw the hon. Member for Portsmouth South (Stephen Morgan) down on my Island during Cowes Week last year, sitting in a VIP tent, so I presume that he was there in part because of his role as a Member of Parliament. He is a member of the Labour party, so it would be good if all sides respected the rules. Because we are terribly laid-back and chilled on the Island, I did not mention it, but I suppose that I could have made a drama out of it if I had wished.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. If the hon. Gentleman is referring to the Minister, he must say the Minister, not you. I apologise for interrupting him, but this is becoming a widespread habit of Members all around the House and it must not go on. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is the person who is hearing this, and I am sure that other people will now be rather more careful. He is not a consistent offender; he is normally very proper in his behaviour.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Other
Robert William Henry Seely (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I do apologise; I had noticed that I had written a few yous, and I scrubbed them out and put hes and shes. If my notes still contained a few yous, I apologise. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is not here, I was trying to work out whether I should be using he or she, or whether we have reached a post-gender age for Ministers as well as for the rest of us.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Housing
Margaret Ann Throup (Conservative, Centre-right): Not just people but processes seem to change, and HS2 Ltd is not passing the information on to the chartered surveyors who are working on its behalf or to those who are working on behalf of the residents The Country Land and Business Association has reported that rural business owners who go through the compulsory purchase process find it difficult to secure funding to develop their businesses, or have existing finance agreements reviewed. Whether it is rural or urban, the problem is the same, as some of my local businesses in Long Eaton have discovered The Country Land and Business Association has also told me that the Government have committed themselves to enacting legislation to provide for advance payments, and I ask the Minister to comment on that today. Business cannot continue to be successful with such uncertainties hanging over them. As many Members know, all successful businesses have short, medium and long-term business plans but they cannot operate, given the current air of uncertainty Let me issue one final plea. At present, many of the areas affected by the line of route have only a very narrow safeguarded area on either side of the line. I ask the Minister to urge HS2 Ltd to be realistic about the amount of land take required, and take action now to safeguard the true area needed so that residents can get on with their lives.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Mixed Topics
Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not know whether my hon. Friend agrees with me that, so far, HS2 Ltd’s approach has been to limit the amount of compensation that it pays, and reduce it. Although it has, I believe, acknowledged that it may need to pay more to finalise claims, it is the interruption to lives, businesses and landowners that is causing so much aggravation. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government should immediately enact the legislation to provide for advance payments, and that that really must happen soon?
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Housing
Margaret Ann Throup (Conservative, Centre-right): I completely agree with my right hon. Friend. We need to get these things moving. I know residents whose properties, under the need-to-sell scheme, were being valued at over £200,000, but under the express purchase scheme, they were offered £140,000 for the same properties. Many of these people are elderly, and they are often quite ill. It is really distressing to see what they are going through In 2015, the then Secretary of State—my right hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Sir Patrick McLoughlin), who is no longer in the Chamber—said that the Government were committed to going above and beyond what was required by law, including discretionary measures to help more people. That is what we are talking about today—going "above and beyond" The HS2 residents charter aims to ensure that residents are treated in a fair, clear, competent and reasonable manner. I hope that, as we debate this hybrid Bill today and when, in the future, we debate the hybrid Bill providing for phase 2b, the charter will feature front and centre in the treatment of constituents along the whole HS2 route. They deserve that: it is the least we can do for them when we are taking their homes away.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Public Lands
Michael Louis David Fabricant (Conservative, Centre-right): I am listening to my hon. Friend with considerable interest. Does he not agree that the saddest thing of all is that Arup came up with an alternative proposal that would not have damaged all those ancient woodlands because it would have used existing transport corridors? We could have done this so much better.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Mixed Topics
Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not entirely agree with my hon. Friend that bats have no importance whatever, but I do agree with him that people are important. He may actually experience what I experienced in my constituency, whereby HS2 implied and said that it was going to take a property and then decided that it was not going to take it, which can also have severe implications for businesses affected in that fashion.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Housing
Jeremy John Elton Lefroy (Conservative, Centre-right): I entirely agree. I apologise if I gave the impression that I do not care about bats at all, but I care about my constituents a little bit more. There are also the issues of the slow process, the lack of engagement, totally unnecessary arguments over valuations and a lack of knowledge. For example, one constituent of mine was not aware of what was going on. He sold the property after the line was announced and made a huge loss, but was then unable to claim for that loss because he was told that he should have gone through the process. This elderly gentleman was basically robbed of tens of thousands of pounds simply because he did not quite understand the system. Will the Minister see whether there is some way that we can get compensation for my constituent, who deserves it? I have constituents, an elderly couple, whose property is going to be boxed in by the works on HS2—literally boxed in. Yet, as things stand, they are not going to be allowed to sell their house to HS2, for reasons I fail to understand Then there is the impact on communities and the environment. The line runs adjacent to Great Haywood. It goes through Ingestre, Hopton, Marston and Yarlet. These are mainly old and ancient villages with strong communities. Hopton has lost a lot of its population already because people have moved out. There is not the community there that there was, because HS2, although it is renting out to people some of the properties that have been sold to it, is not doing so quickly. Naturally, the people who are coming in, perhaps for the short term, are not able to join in the community as much as others would.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I remind Members that, as they can see for themselves, seven hon. Members are still seeking to contribute to the debate, therefore there is a premium on reasonable brevity. If each contributes for no more than 10 minutes, all should have the chance to do so before the winding-up speeches begin.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Mixed Topics
Rachel Helen Maclean (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is a great champion of engineering and I have been inspired by what she has done in her constituency. HS2 will definitely provide a boost for engineering careers. The hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry) rightly said that we do not mention careers for women in engineering enough, and I want to go at least some way towards rectifying that. I hope that the National College for High Speed Rail will have a mission to bring more women into engineering so that this project provides a boost to help to address the dire lack of women in engineering and construction, particularly given that it is the Year of Engineering and also 100 years since women got the vote. There are many reasons to focus on that issue and ensure that we get things right.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Mixed Topics
Margaret Ann Throup (Conservative, Centre-right): We need engineers to construct the line, but we need them in the supply chain, too. Bombardier’s base is close to my constituency, and I have met the female apprentice engineers who build the underground trains that we travel on every day. That is just one example of how much more we can do to spread the word that engineering is for men and women.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Rachel Helen Maclean (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend for his work. He is a champion of women not only in engineering, but in all other spheres, and I hope that the Minister will take up that suggestion Redditch’s small businesses are hoping to take advantage of some of the contracts that are being awarded through HS2, both now and in the future. For example, Arrowvale Electronics makes world-leading equipment and hopes to benefit from the boost that an HS2 contract would provide. I know how hard it is for small businesses to tender for large-scale Government contracts, so I urge the Minister to say what she is doing to ensure that they can get a slice of the pie and benefit the diverse economy that we all want.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Michelle Emma May Elizabeth Donelan (Conservative, Centre-right): Does my hon. Friend agree that one area that has been neglected in today’s debate is the social and wellbeing aspect that the project can bring to people? We talk often in this place about loneliness and boosting tourism around the country, and improving our connectivity in the UK is an example of how we can achieve that.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Rachel Helen Maclean (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an extremely perceptive point and I completely agree with it. My hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr Seely) was talking about the investment figures, and sometimes there are intangible benefits that are not always captured in an economic forecast. I hope that the Government are looking at that and looking at how we can maximise what my hon. Friend the Member for Chippenham (Michelle Donelan) describes. Loneliness is a real scourge and when people who live in London can get on a train and go to Birmingham, or vice-versa, and people can to go from Birmingham to the north, they can explore new parts of our beautiful country. We can also reduce the carbon footprint that would come from their getting on an airplane. Let us have more staycations. Let us explore our country, because we are blessed in our island nation with some of the most beautiful landscapes. Sometimes that tourism benefit is lacking from our debate. How much better it would be if we could encourage holidays at home and boost the tourism—
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Other
William Nigel Paul Cash (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady just said that in Committee, we will do such and such. I think she may have misunderstood the nature of the procedure. It will be a hybrid Bill Select Committee, not a Committee of the House.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Other
Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani (Conservative, Centre-right): We are working through the details. We will try and do it as quickly as we can, but it will be shortly—this year. I am sorry; I cannot provide more details now, but I will write to the hon. Member and let her know. This is very complicated and cannot be rushed. We need to make the decisions for the right reasons.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Other
William Nigel Paul Cash (Conservative, Centre-right): I think I can say this on behalf of all those who are liable to petition in Staffordshire, thus representing several constituencies here: will the Minister do everything possible to help those petitioners to present their case, and show maximum understanding of what is affecting them, right the way through from one end of Staffordshire to the other?
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill — House of Commons, 2018-01-30
Topic: Other
Michael Louis David Fabricant (Conservative, Centre-right): As I intend to vote against Second Reading, for all the reasons I have given, and as that has the same effect, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Question put, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
Ties with the Rest of the UK — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Gordon Mundell (Conservative, Centre-right): What we will publish is the clause and the intergovernmental agreement that goes along with it, which is what the Welsh Government have signed up to. That is what was on the table for the Scottish Government to agree. It remains on the table.
Ties with the Rest of the UK — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Gordon Mundell (Conservative, Centre-right): I read recently on the hon. Gentleman’s blog that the SNP should stop talking nonsense. He needs to take his own advice. Our position is still clear: we want to secure the agreement of the Scottish Government to our proposals in relation to clause 11. We have been very clear. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office has been clear. Our door is open. We hope that we will have direct discussions with the Scottish Government next week, and we hope that they will change their position and sign up, as the Welsh Government have, to proposals that protect the devolution settlement.
Leaving the EU: Scottish Exports — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Gordon Mundell (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is always a champion for the businesses in the borders, and I can of course give him that reassurance. We are talking to producers in the borders, across Scotland and indeed across the UK to ensure that they can make the most of the opportunities around the world as we leave the EU.
Leaving the EU: Scottish Exports — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Gordon Mundell (Conservative, Centre-right): I respect the Liberal Democrats’ position that they want to stay in the EU and, indeed, to stop the UK and Scotland leaving the EU, but a decision has been made across the United Kingdom that it will leave the EU. It is now incumbent on this Government to negotiate the best possible terms for that departure. The Government have made it absolutely clear that we will not be part of a customs union and will look to negotiate our own bespoke free trade agreement with the EU.
Renewable Energy Sector — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on supporting the renewable energy sector in Scotland.
Stuart James Andrew (Conservative, Centre-right): In previous rounds of contracts for difference, Scottish projects won 11 of the 25 contracts. On the specific point the hon. Lady makes, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has committed to raise the issue with the Minister responsible and will come back to her on that.
Renewable Energy Sector — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on supporting the renewable energy sector in Scotland.
Stuart James Andrew (Conservative, Centre-right): The next round of contracts for difference is expected in the spring of next year. That is an opportunity for new and innovative schemes to come forward for grants, and I suggest that an application be made.
Social Media Consultancies — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Gordon Mundell (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman does have a track record of asking questions when he does not know what the answer is going to be. I return very clearly to the point that, if there are specific suggestions that the code under which the Government operate has been breached, they should be made and taken forward in the proper way. But if the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that the Scottish Government do not target specific individuals with their material, he is misleading this House.
Social Media Consultancies — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Well, if the hon. Gentleman were suggesting it, he would be, but he is not, so he is not. I am sure that the SNP is not accusing the Secretary of State of impropriety, as that would be the wrong thing to do on the Floor of the Chamber, but equally, I am sure that the Secretary of State is not making any accusation of impropriety.
Social Media Consultancies — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Douglas Gordon Ross (Conservative, Centre-right): Cambridge Analytica claimed yesterday that the SNP’s involvement with it was far more than Nicola Sturgeon has previously claimed. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the SNP should be far more open and honest about its involvement with Cambridge Analytica, particularly with its own MPs?
Social Media Consultancies — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Kevin John Foster (Conservative, Centre-right): Did my right hon. Friend share my interest in the answers provided to the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Brendan O'Hara) by Cambridge Analytica yesterday, in the most recent hearing, and does he agree that it is important that the separatists are equally open about how they have used these consultancies?
Leaving the EU: Effect on Scotland — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Immigration
David Gordon Mundell (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not accept that Scotland needs its own immigration system, and it was clear at the time of the Smith Commission agreement that immigration would not be devolved, but I will look into the specific issue the hon. Lady has raised.
Leaving the EU: Effect on Scotland — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Paul Masterton (Conservative, Centre-right): East Renfrewshire has a vibrant business community, but only 75 of its businesses have more than 20 employees, and by far their most important market is the rest of the UK. What reassurances can my right hon. Friend give them that as the UK leaves the EU they will have seamless access to the rest of the UK?
Leaving the EU: Effect on Scotland — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Domestic Commerce
David Gordon Mundell (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is right. It is very important that everyone is clear that financial services are not just in the City of London but are hugely important in Scotland and the other constituent parts of the UK. That is why we are fighting for a good deal from the EU on financial services.
Leaving the EU: Scottish Economy — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Other
Questions: What assessment he has made of the potential effect on the Scottish economy of the UK leaving the EU without an agreement in place.
Stuart James Andrew (Conservative, Centre-right): I think my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has made it very clear that we want the Scottish Government to agree to the clause 11 amendment as the Welsh Government have. The Welsh Government have accepted that the UK Government have gone a long way, and I hope that the Scottish Government are listening and will take part.
Leaving the EU: Scottish Economy — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: What assessment he has made of the potential effect on the Scottish economy of the UK leaving the EU without an agreement in place.
Stuart James Andrew (Conservative, Centre-right): I absolutely agree with the hon. Lady. She has made a very important point. The Welsh Government have accepted that this is a sensible way forward, and it is time that Scotland did exactly the same.
Ayrshire Growth Deal — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): The timing of the hon. Member for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (Bill Grant) could be improved, as I tried to call him a few moments ago, but I am in a generous mood. Let us hear the fella.
Ayrshire Growth Deal — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Housing
William Grant (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you, Mr Speaker. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the city and growth deals that cover the vast majority of Scotland are a great example of what can be achieved when Governments and authorities work closely together rather than picking a fight with one another?
Engagements — House of Commons, 2018-04-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure the whole House will wish to join me in offering our warmest congratulations to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their son earlier this week I know that Members on both sides of the House will also want to join me in marking Stephen Lawrence’s death 25 years ago. For each of those years, the Lawrence family have fought heroically to ensure that their son’s life and death will never be forgotten. As I announced earlier this week, the Government will work with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust to establish a national annual commemoration of Stephen’s life and legacy This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House, I shall have further such meetings later today.