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Speeches by Obese-Jecty.

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14 Sept 2025Neighbourhood Policing

Last week was Rural Crime Action Week. I recently had an opportunity to join Cambridgeshire constabulary’s rural crime action team to see the work that it does, despite having to cover a huge county of eight constituencies with just 14 officers. Those officers have recently been reallocated from being designated operat

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9 Sept 2025 Russian Drones: Violation of Polish Airspace

I recently visited the Royal Air Force in Poland during its recent deployment in NATO’s enhanced air policing mission during Op Chessman, where I saw at first hand RAF Typhoons scrambled to intercept a Russian signals intelligence Coot-A—Poland feels the threat from Russia much more keenly than I think we appreciate in

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7 Sept 2025Defence Investment Plan

20. When he plans to publish the defence investment plan.

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7 Sept 2025Defence Investment Plan

On Friday, I visited Paragraf, a local business in my constituency. Founded by Simon Thomas, it is a hugely successful spin-out from Cambridge University, developing and manufacturing next generation electronic devices using graphene. These products provide solutions in a range of industries, from quantum computing to

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7 Sept 2025Defence Industrial Strategy

I place on record my excitement at seeing RAF Wyton in my constituency directly mentioned in the defence industrial strategy. Last week, I was at RAF Wyton for a hugely successful discussion on its future as a defence technology cluster, with senior officers from the cyber and specialist operations command, the leaders

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3 Sept 2025Speaker's Conference (2024) — Oral Evidence (HC 570)

A quick question from my perspective. You mentioned MPs who receive an awful lot of abuse. I have noticed that the tone in the nation has shifted in the last month or so and the amount of racist abuse I have received personally has just gone off the charts.

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3 Sept 2025Speaker's Conference (2024) — Oral Evidence (HC 570)

Sorry.

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3 Sept 2025Speaker's Conference (2024) — Oral Evidence (HC 570)

It is interesting to hear the steps that Ofcom plans to take. To Zöe’s point, I receive a huge amount of abusive and very unpleasant content and the last four weeks have shown that that has gone off the chart. I must have received hundreds and hundreds of comments, many of which are just simply very unpleasant, they do

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2 Sept 2025Use of Drones in Defence

Recently, we saw the ACUA Ocean Pioneer granted a licence by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Do we think that by pushing out more civilian licences to enable more companies to develop those autonomous platforms, including for things that have maritime applications, drones will be enhanced more quickly? I appreciate

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2 Sept 2025Use of Drones in Defence

If we are talking about those low-end, attritable systems being introduced at Army or Marine level as section-level capability, like a light machine gun, at what point will we look at redesigning our entire military capability in terms of logistical supply of batteries and parts for those? We all know that soldiers alr

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2 Sept 2025Use of Drones in Defence

I think AI will increasingly become a mainstay of the battlefield, and how we employ it will become incredibly important. My concern is about the control of AI and knowing that the target we are trying to prosecute is indeed still viable right up to the last safe moment. Once we lose control of a drone and it becomes A

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2 Sept 2025Use of Drones in Defence

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. The nature of warfare has changed. During the last three years of conflict driven by the war in Ukraine and, perhaps controversially, two years of Israel Defence Forces operations in Gaza, we have seen a paradigm shift in the nature of warfare—a tangential move

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2 Sept 2025Use of Drones in Defence

My background is in armoured infantry and warfare, and I completely concur that the weak spots of a tank are probably underneath it or to the rear. As the hon. Gentleman pointed out with the Armata tank, we should consider the use of drones to immobilise, and not just the engine block. The weak spot of any tank is its

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31 Aug 2025Borders and Asylum

The Home Secretary has touched on it a couple of times, but I am yet to hear from her about the scope of the Government’s asylum accommodation programme, which is currently rated “amber”. Despite the fact that 29,003 asylum seekers have arrived by small boat so far this year, the scope of the programme, following its s

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20 Jul 2025Topical Questions

Last year, 565 EHCPs were issued in Cambridgeshire, with fewer than 10% completed within the statutory 20-week deadline. Cambridgeshire county council now ranks as the 10th worst nationally for meeting the timelines on their delivery. With 99% of SEND tribunals finding in favour of the parent, what steps is the Secreta

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14 Jul 2025Afghanistan

I thank the Defence Secretary for his statement, but I think it asks a lot more questions than it answers. Will he outline exactly how the dataset came to be accidentally emailed? Will he confirm that it was indeed an accident? What was the security classification of that dataset? Who was the dataset emailed to, given

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14 Jul 2025Topical Questions

It was recently announced that the surplus Ministry of Defence land at RAF Wyton in my constituency has been designated as an MOD trailblazer site. The Housing Minister confirmed to me last week that no assessment has yet been made of the energy infrastructure currently in place. The Prime Minister recently confirmed t

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13 Jul 2025Northern Ireland Veterans: Prosecution

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank the more than 175,000 people who signed this e-petition, of whom 403 are my Huntingdon constituents. I would like to start by paying particular tribute to the military personnel who served in Northern Ireland on Operation Banner between August 1969 a

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9 Jul 2025 UK-France Nuclear Partnership

I welcome the announcement of strengthened collaboration with France, although reading between the lines, it sounds like “co-ordination” is actually submarine patrol deconfliction. Our aerial participation in the NATO nuclear mission is still a decade away, with the completion of F-35A delivery not scheduled until 2033

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9 Jul 2025Speaker's Conference (2024) — Oral Evidence (HC 570)

Could you go back to your team and, likewise, ask for the report to include whether that the metadata for those data is provided? Megan Thomas indicated assent.

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