ConservativeMP for Wetherby and Easingwold
“I'm grateful to the Minister for giving him. I just wanted to just explore slightly further the role that our destroyer has in the Gulf. the minister said it was part of air defense research. Is it integrated within a system or is the or ou…”
“Mr. Speaker and Mr. Speaker, the right honourable Gentleman was indeed a long, experienced whip, and indeed, with the right honourable Gentleman for Bridgend. So I find it quite hard to understand how the whips office has fallen so far that…”
“Building on the last question, RAF Linton-on-Ouse, where up to 1,500 asylum seekers may be put, will have open gates, in a village of 600 adults. Close to the site is a primary school. In the light of the comments about community cohesion, …”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Does my honourable Friend find it incredulous that in the amendment put forward by the government, they say it welcomes the Rights Act plan to make work pay? Do you think this is just an example of burying their head…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy.…”
“4. What steps he is taking to increase the availability of the Royal Navy surface fleet.…”
“Linton-on-Ouse, in the heart of my constituency, is a small rural community and is very much isolated. Four years ago, this plan was rejected on technical grounds. Three times the local population would be put into the area, with no means t…”
“In the past hour and a half, I have received several emails and telephone calls. Let me read one of the emails: “I am writing this email as I have been reliably informed that bidding has commenced for turning Linton-on-Ouse RAF base into an…”
“Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker.…”
“Many Members will be aware of just how reluctant the FCDO always is to take action against any country. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran is a very good example—just look at how long that took. I know the Minister personally. I …”
“The negotiations for the new relationship with the EU have been the body of the Minister’s work, so what pitch will he make to the right honourable Member for Makerfield (Andy Burnham) about how important it is that he carries on doing this…”
“I am grateful to my honourable Friend for Barking his case. Does he share my concern that, during last week’s urgent question, the Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry and the Secretary of State could not commit to delivering the cap…”
“I really am quite impressed that the Deputy Prime Minister knows more about defence spending than the former Secretary of State for Defence. He was able to stand in for the Prime Minister at questions and also know what was going on in the …”
“May I offer my congratulations to the right honourable and gallant Gentleman? He is a good fit for the role, and I hope that he will listen to those across the House and try to work constructively. In that spirit, this incredible operation …”
“Last week, I was away at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. I thought I had understood why the former Secretary of State for Defence had resigned, but here today according to the Minister it is really unknown. Where the Minister is right is i…”
“I welcome the honourable and learned Lady to her new role in the Cabinet. She was an excellent colleague when she was on the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and it does not surprise me that she is the first of her intake to make it. It is in t…”
“It is a real pleasure to follow the honourable and gallant Member for Southend East and Rochford (Mr Alaba). He made some very important points about being prepared and the importance of the reserve. I want to focus on the actual threats to…”
“I am afraid that the answers about publication simply are not good enough. The Minister may think that he is putting an argument to this House, but he is treating this House and the public as a bunch of mugs. The reality is that one of his …”
“Does my right honourable Friend agree that the previous ambassador, Dame Karen Pierce, was widely—indeed almost universally—respected and felt to have a good relationship with the previous Trump Administration, and there was no reason to be…”
“The truth of the matter is when the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister says that process was followed to appoint a diplomat, a professional diplomat would not have been appointed if they had taken dodgy loans, tried to flog passports and…”
“Will the Minister give way?…”
“Does the honourable Gentleman believe that there is any military threat to this country from abroad?…”
“On that point about security and growing energy at home, I am sure that my right honourable Friend shares my concern that in the push for renewables, we are entirely reliant on the processing being done in China on the other side of the wor…”
“Further to the answer the Secretary of State has just given, he has confirmed to the House this afternoon that mines have been laid in the strait of Hormuz. Therefore, one of the biggest problems—whether there was a cessation of violence ov…”
“Defence industry supply chains are desperately in need of the defence investment plan. The Chancellor talks about the money being invested, but why is the Treasury not allowing the DIP to go forward? It is starting to become critical, and w…”
“I welcome the Prime Minister’s comments about working with religious communities and trying to ensure their safety, but I was appalled—not shocked, I am afraid to say—as I am sure the Prime Minister was, to see at the weekend the deputy lea…”
“I have raised concerns about Jew hatred in this country several times in the House. As I have said previously, I give credit to the Prime Minister for driving out the antisemitism in his party, in which, between 2015 and 2019, antisemitism …”
“I hope the Minister will forgive me for not having read the tome that he has next to him. I want to probe him further on dispute resolution. A lot of hassle—criminality, really—happens in the Gibraltar seas. What co-operation may be in plac…”
“To paraphrase Churchill, the cornerstone of a free society is a free press. Whatever the investigation may be looking into, I am afraid that the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office has admitted that he set the investigation going becaus…”
“Further to the point raised by my right honourable Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), this looks like smoke today. The horse has bolted so far that it is at Wetherby racecourse, and the right honoura…”
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