Results 1–20 of 414 for speaker:Marcus Fysh

Somerset Council: Funding and Governance (30 Jan 2024)

Marcus Fysh: The Minister has set out exactly his case, and he is right to say that we need to work together on this. Councils are integral, and they have been for hundreds of years, to our local people and their experience of life. They are vital. We in this House support the Minister in trying to make sure that the process works well and efficiently, that savings are made and that the vision we can try...

Somerset Council: Funding and Governance (30 Jan 2024)

Marcus Fysh: Yeovil is one of those places that is dripping with potential. It has an incredible defence manufacturing industry, people, skills and development organisations. In my opinion, as someone who has been around the world looking at development and business opportunities for many years, I have never seen an environment that is so conducive to partnership working between business and local...

Somerset Council: Funding and Governance (30 Jan 2024)

Marcus Fysh: My hon. Friend makes a brilliant point. This is all about thinking of a plan for how we join up those urban and rural development opportunities and our skills development opportunities to make the most of what is an incredible area. Somerset is a rural area, but I have never seen anything like it in my travels of the whole world—there is so much energy and sophistication in what is a rural...

Somerset Council: Funding and Governance (30 Jan 2024)

Marcus Fysh: I beg to move, That this House has considered the funding and governance of Somerset Council. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. When I became a councillor—some years ago; probably 10 or more years ago now—one of the things that I took most seriously was my duty to those in our community who are more vulnerable than others, in particular looked-after children...

Somerset Council: Funding and Governance (30 Jan 2024)

Marcus Fysh: I agree with my hon. Friend. He is absolutely right that it is important that responsibility is taken and that some of these decisions—or lack of decisions, should I say—are held up for scrutiny. It is not acceptable for residents, because of the lack of money, to face the potential loss of services that are really important to them, such as the Yeovil recreation centre and the tourist...

Somerset Council: Funding and Governance (30 Jan 2024)

Marcus Fysh: I thank my hon. Friend, and he is absolutely right. We need to work together, including across the aisle. I am very fond of my Liberal Democrat ex-opponents on the council. I know them well, and in many cases they are very good people who want the best for their communities, as we all do. We need to work together, whatever we think about the decisions that should or should not have been made....

Data Protection and Digital Information Bill: Part 2 - The Nine Identity Assurance Principles (29 Nov 2023)

Marcus Fysh: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Members who have spoken in this very important debate. I declare an interest: I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on digital identity, so I have a particular interest in the ramifications of data as it relates to identity, but also in wider concepts—some of which we have heard about today—such as artificial intelligence and how our data...

Renters (Reform) Bill (23 Oct 2023)

Marcus Fysh: Does the Minister accept that if the Country Land and Business Association’s estimate is correct that the Bill may reduce the available private rentals by 40% in rural areas, that could have a completely deleterious effect on the Prime Minister’s main pledge, which is to get inflation down? Core inflation is driven by rentals. Will the Minister work with me to fix the Bill and ensure that...

Renters (Reform) Bill (23 Oct 2023)

Marcus Fysh: Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that, in London, part of the problem is that the amount of rental property available for new renters on the market is 20% down? It is important to encourage good landlords, as he talked about, to have longer rental periods. Should we incentivise them to do that through things such as tax breaks?

Renters (Reform) Bill (23 Oct 2023)

Marcus Fysh: Is my hon. Friend aware that just five days ago Jones Lang LaSalle, one of the biggest property consultants in the world, published a report that analysed Rightmove evidence of rental market availability? It shows that in the south-east and south-west of England, rental availability is down by 32% on 2019. Is that caused by some of the things my hon. Friend has been talking about?

Renters (Reform) Bill (23 Oct 2023)

Marcus Fysh: Does my right hon. Friend not agree that the Bill would do exactly what he has just been saying is the problem with rent control, which is to drive private landlords out of the market? Is that not entirely contrary to the Government’s main aim right now, which is to bring down inflation? Private rents are the key cause of core inflation, and this is a disastrous Bill for every renter in the...

Online Safety Bill: Clause 82 - General duties of OFCOM under section 3 of the Communications Act (12 Sep 2023)

Marcus Fysh: It is a pleasure to follow my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright), who made a characteristically thoughtful speech. At the outset, I want to put on record my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and also my chairmanships of the all-party parliamentary groups on digital identity and on central bank and digital currency,...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Cabinet Office: Windsor Framework (13 Mar 2023)

Marcus Fysh: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the former Second Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office (a) advised on and (b) participated in the negotiations on the Windsor Framework.

Civil Service Impartiality ( 6 Mar 2023)

Marcus Fysh: The House and the country should know that on 7 September 2019 I witnessed Sue Gray, then permanent secretary at the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland, discuss with a special adviser to the UK Cabinet Office how to exclude solutions other than high alignment with EU law and regulation from consideration by the Government in respect of Northern Ireland and the withdrawal agreement. A...

Civil Service Impartiality ( 6 Mar 2023)

Marcus Fysh: Does the—

Civil Service Impartiality ( 6 Mar 2023)

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Civil Service Impartiality ( 6 Mar 2023)

Marcus Fysh: Absolutely right.

Accountability in Financial Regulation ( 9 Feb 2023)

Marcus Fysh: It is a pleasure to be here for this last debate before recess to discuss such a crucial topic, and one that the House should find of the utmost interest. My background in finance comes from the self-regulatory age, but I have watched developments over the past 20 years with great interest. The context is that the UK needs to raise its sights and raise its game to ensure a bright sovereign...

Bill presented: Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill ( 9 Feb 2023)

Marcus Fysh: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this matter; I gave Mr Speaker advance notice, as this has a bearing on the subject matter of today’s business. I have been attempting since May last year to register my interest in a large-scale change of policy by the parliamentary contributory pension fund, which will now invest in renewable energy....


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