"Why are the Government persisting with that when small businesses do not feel the need to be exempted and do not want to be exempted?..." Joan Walley - View Speech
"I agree with the contradiction that has just been described by my hon. Friend the Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner). If the Minister is not able to clarify that now, it might be helpful for the Committee to have clarification in writing later. The Government’s response to our report …..." Joan Walley - View Speech
"Things get curiouser and curiouser. We have an exemption for something that does not exist, and we do not know what the criteria for it are or what the funding will be to incentivise the new procedure. We seem to have a hypothetical future technology that we are waiting to …..." Joan Walley - View Speech
"Will the Minister reassure the House that there has been a full appraisal of the long-term implications of that—one sufficient to reach the conclusions that he has just reached?..." Joan Walley - View Speech
"May I say first that the Minister has been most gracious in allowing so many interventions? Perhaps that was more a function of the attendance at the debate, but it was very helpful in flushing out some of the issues.
"I am not sure whether I am able to take interventions in the summing-up. I shall take guidance on that from you, Mrs Brooke...." Joan Walley - View Speech
"I take note of what my hon. Friend says, and I was about to come on to that point. Before I do, it remains for me to say that the Environmental Audit Committee report was an informed one, and if our recommendations had been adopted, they would have resulted in …..." Joan Walley - View Speech