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HANSARD Future of HorseracingI very much welcome my hon. Friend’s contribution. Of course, he is absolutely right. There are many seemingly unintended consequences of the current proposals. I have yet to see…25 Oct 2023HANSARDZero-emission Vehicles, Drivers and HS2Norfolk’s infrastructure needs have often been overlooked, but not any more: just in the last week, the Department of Transport has announced £231 million supporting the Norwich…16 Oct 2023HANSARDFinancial Education in SchoolsOf course he is. I am sorry for that slip. Barclays, in its 2014 research, found that 17.5 million hours of productive work was lost because of financial stress. It came up with…06 Sept 2023HANSARDFinancial Education in SchoolsI have a number of thank yous, alongside those to hon. Members for their excellent contributions. I thank Young Enterprise—which provides the secretariat for the APPG on financial…06 Sept 2023HANSARDFinancial Education in SchoolsYou are absolutely right. I will come on to the benefits of compound interest, which is part of the answer.06 Sept 2023HANSARDFinancial Education in SchoolsI beg to move, That this House has considered financial education in schools. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Angela. Tip O’Neill was famously linked to…06 Sept 2023HANSARDFinancial Education in SchoolsHis elbow—I am so sorry. I am normally quite good at this! I recognise that the textbook needs to be updated, but an improved textbook from Martin Lewis or the wider financial…06 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I will not; I am sorry, but I only have one and a half minutes. It is logical on environmental grounds, therefore, to support new licences in oil and gas. But there are other…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am just going to talk about one new clause, new clause 29, which I oppose. It seeks to prevent further licences of North sea oil and gas. The…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Under-age VapingAs the hon. Lady says, that is what they all say. Obviously that is wholly inappropriate, but part of the problem in reaching the correct solution to this shared concern has been…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Under-age VapingI am grateful for that intervention. I do not have skin in the game about whether it is better to have a higher cost or a lower cost, but my hon. Friend’s intervention has…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Under-age VapingOne of the great pleasures of being tail-end Charlie in these debates is that one has the opportunity to sit through and listen to every contribution. The disadvantage is getting…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Under-age VapingThank you for that indication, Madam Deputy Speaker. To wrap up my submissions, I will say that the Government are absolutely right to have put out a call for evidence. That…12 Jul 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fifth sitting)I briefly made mention of clause 7 in my earlier remarks. I am interested in the Minister’s view, particularly on clause 7(2)(b) and the definition of UK-related turnover being £1…20 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fifth sitting)We had three days of oral evidence last week and were lucky enough to have the chief executive of the CMA come and give evidence to us. I do not have a copy of Hansard with me, so…20 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Maria. I will deal first with whether clause 2 should stand part of the Bill. It is of course axiomatic. Right at the heart…20 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q You are buying a service to reach the same number of eyeballs. The process does not have greater reach. You said that, to achieve the same outcome as a facilitating business,…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q Okay, but the bit that I am really interested in is how you could contain an appeals process within six months if you were going to look, even in any element, at the merits.…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q So if you could not limit it to six months, that would be self-defeating in its own right in many cases. Neil Ross : I think there is a balance to be struck depending on what…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q But you do recognise that speed is of the essence in a fast-moving market. Neil Ross: Yes, absolutely.15 Jun 2023