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HANSARDWalking and CyclingIn the Government’s document “Gear change: a bold vision for cycling and walking”, they promised a trial scheme for boosting the use of electric bikes, yet they have only found £1…03 Dec 2020HANSARDWalking and CyclingWhat steps his Department is taking to support walking and cycling schemes.03 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eighth sitting)I will pick up on one issue, which concerns subsection (3)(a). I would like some clarification from the Minister. I am trying to get my head around what is meant by “a qualifying…03 Dec 2020HANSARDTopical Questions2002 Will the Minister confirm that the Government’s forthcoming consultation on the consumer experience of public electric vehicle charging will propose full roaming across…03 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. On the point on these disguised elements, does my hon. Friend agree that the issue is about not simply shareholding,…03 Dec 2020HANSARDExams and Accountability 2021The Secretary of State rightly says that he wants to boost fairness and support students, but he will be aware that just last week a million students were not able to be at…03 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend is making some important points. The issue here, as he is illustrating, is simply that the pressures that SMEs face in particular are about cash-flow and attracting…03 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend is making incredibly important points. There are really two issues. One is the volume that will be coming through, as she articulated earlier, but there is also the…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a point about the market failure that we have experienced over the past decade and its relevance to or inappropriateness for national security. The Government…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)If the University of Cambridge were approached by a Chinese academic institution with an offer of funding to collaborate on some project, for example, surely that would need the…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)This is about putting it on a different footing; it is as simple as that. As was said by Sir Richard Dearlove and others in the evidence sessions last week, with the sort of…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I am not sure that the Minister has; it is always a pleasure to hear his dulcet tones. In all seriousness, is this not open to interpretation with a change of Secretary of State,…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)As always, my hon. Friend makes important points. To amplify those, if we had been sitting down and writing this Bill 10 years ago, which would have been a pretty good thing to…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I think I chose my time horizon pretty well. Had we been doing so, we may not have been considering these 17 categories, traffic light systems, underground systems, public…01 Dec 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Minister will be aware that, according to the Office for National Statistics, the national average increase in unemployment is 24%, but for over-50s, it has risen by a third.…30 Nov 2020HANSARD Agricultural Transition PlanMany farmers in my area and the villages around are really concerned. As far as they are concerned, they are in business—they have been farmers for generations to look after and…30 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you, Mr Offenbach, for your evidence this afternoon. I am interested in the example you gave in your statement. Has the pandemic changed the way you view national…26 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I wonder, Mr Butler, if you would elaborate on, and give more examples of, the sorts of international threats that you see us facing, in terms of not just national security but…26 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Going back to my previous question, do you think that we should think about areas such as climate change and other things that are perhaps not necessarily of immediate…26 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q What is your view on the Bill’s assessment that state entities and funds pose less of a risk than private entities to the UK? David Offenbach: I am not personally worried about…26 Nov 2020