What assessment has been made of the potential impact of the floods resilience taskforce on future planning considerations? In areas like Mid Norfolk, planning is key to avoiding developments that cause and exacerbate flooding. A recent planning application for 350 houses on a floodplain in Attleborough was turned down by the council due to flooding risks but fast-tracked by the Planning Inspectorate based on Government house building targets. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill contained nothing on flooding, which is why I am introducing a Bill. Will the Minister meet me and cross-party campaigners from affected constituencies, including some of my constituents now wading through sewage after the development mentioned, to talk about how we can integrate planning with flood prevention?

For the record, I and my constituents are proud of the southern North sea development—the largest wind farm in the world, begun under the last Government. However, we are not happy about this Government’s rush to force our consumers to pay higher bills; to see, as a result of vast subsidies, farmers in a very important agricultural area of Norfolk farming solar panels, rather than the food that we need to ensure affordability and our security; and to abandon agricultural leadership on net zero. Can the Minister reassure my consumers that £250 is adequate compensation for higher bills and the defoliation of a large part of Norfolk? That is what has happened in the rush towards ill-thought-out net zero targets, set in London, without any consideration of local people.

Across the 46 schools in Mid Norfolk, SEND provision is the No. 1 issue for parents, teachers and staff. Contrary to the party political broadcast from Ministers, in the last 14 years I was lucky to secure £7 million from the Conservative coalition for a new school and Conservative county council funding for a new school in Swaffham. Officials in the Department for Education have also been constructive in working on a pathfinder for rural hub-and-spoke support. Parents in rural areas really struggle. What are Ministers doing to take that forward to support small rural schools to access specialist help in hubs?

In Norfolk as in many areas, we saw during pandemic some hugely complicated issues around early years, including lack of preparation and learning difficulties that schools deal with. Will Minister reassure me that Budget will pay attention to supporting network—supporting previous Government's introduction of early years—and integrating better mental health support, learning difficulty support and social care support? In end, children need only one network of support.

I welcome the Secretary of State and his team to what I think is one of the most important Departments in Government. As a sometimes lonely voice on the Conservative Benches advocating for industrial strategy, I signal support for his intention. I am sure that he agrees that the big challenge is to convert our phenomenal science and technology leadership into sovereign industrial supply chain leadership around this country. Having led the strategy for life sciences—quantum, engineering biology, fusion—may I ask whether he agrees that the key to this is cross-departmental Whitehall work, and ensuring that we do not end up with endless earnest, well-intended committees, but actually engage the small businesses, entrepreneurs and investors who are driving these sectors of tomorrow?

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that answer and congratulate him and his colleague the Secretary of State on their appointments. All of us who are serious about the health service and the need for reform have our back in pushing for reform... May I encourage the Front-Bench team to reach out and have a meeting—a rainbow coalition meeting including new hon. Members—of all MPs in Norfolk, which has suffered more than most counties? We desperately need that University of East Anglia dental school.

If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring newly-qualified dentists to work for the NHS for a set period of time.