Subsidy Control Bill

Thank you for calling me to speak in this important debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a delight...

I understood from discussions I have had with the Minister in the past that the intention was to ...

Some parts of the Bill give the devolved Administrations a say, but many others do not. The key p...

The point that I was trying to make relates to farmers’ subsidies and environmental schemes, whic...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. We are asking for the agricultural references to be rem...

The hon. Lady makes some very fair points, but to be fair to the Government there are requirement...

Actually, what the legislation does is to give the business a responsibility to keep the letter. ...

Clause 37(6) states:

“The enterprise must keep a written record detailing—

(a) that i...

Once again, yes, it has to keep a full record, but it does not have to show Aberdeen City Council...

The Secretary of State is not necessarily an interested party, which is why he needs to be named ...

We discussed this at length, with a lot of banter, in Committee. But I have a concern that the pr...

The hon. Lady has outlined the issue very well on behalf of the Northern Ireland Assembly. This h...

I completely agree that there is not a level of parity here. There should be because the Governme...

I rise to speak to the amendments in my name and that of my hon. Friends. I start by saying that ...

My hon. Friend makes a strong point about armchair auditors in particular. As soon as the US publ...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. For those of us who worry about the scale of subsidies, w...

My hon. Friend is making a very useful speech, and I very rarely say that in Parliament—not about...

That is absolutely right. Transparency is of course about trying to improve the productivity of o...

My hon. Friend is making a very good speech and making very good points. On the issue of transpar...

Absolutely; my hon. Friend makes an important point. Equally, the point about cost goes more broa...

Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a general presumption that there should be more transpare...

That is absolutely right. Although I appreciate that there is a technical distinction between amo...

Specifically on the issue of uploading subsidies to databases and challenging such subsidies, the...

That is absolutely right. It is not just about whether a particular subsidy breaches those princi...

I rise to speak in support of all the amendments and new clauses in the names of my hon. and righ...

I very much sympathise and agree with the argument the hon. Lady is putting forward. In Northern ...

Yes, very much so. I agree with the hon. Gentleman because the excellent food produced in Scotlan...

I rise to speak briefly in support of the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for West...

Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lefarydd. It is interesting to hear the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare...

It is a pleasure to contribute to this very thoughtful debate. I do not share the enthusiasm of t...

May I back the hon. Lady up by saying that it is about not just smaller businesses, but local eco...

I absolutely do, which is why it is so important to get this level of oversight at the much small...

It is a pleasure to follow some powerful speeches on Report tonight. I share the frustration of t...

It was an honour and pleasure to serve with my hon. Friend on the Bill Committee. Does she agree ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his contributions in Committee and for that very important point, whic...

I am listening carefully to the hon. Lady. I am sure everybody here would agree with the principl...

I do not think it is about us picking losers or winners at all. This is about us using the data, ...

Does the hon. Lady not agree that the problem with amendment 16—the net zero amendment —is judgin...

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. We have agreed with many of his amendments. What he...

I thank hon. Members across the House for the informed debate on the Bill and will try my best to...

May I just caution my hon. Friend? I think the paraphrase of his argument about the size of the s...

All I would say is that it is easy to hide something in plain sight, but the subsidy transparency...

I echo the transparency concerns raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Weston-super-Mare (John ...

I am not sure in terms of transparency tools. What I am saying is that we will ensure that the da...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend th...

It is a privilege to come to the Dispatch Box for the first time as the shadow Secretary of State...

I want to start with a few thanks. I thank staff member Dr Jonathan Kiehlmann and my hon. Friend ...

I am very pleased that there have been as many contributions as there have been. I look forward t...