Speeches by Coghlan.

“US security guarantees for any peace agreement in Ukraine are of course highly desirable, but given that the US Defence Secretary appeared to explicitly rule them out, we must of course consider other scenarios, and those guarantees should not be a show-stopper. With that in mind, European NATO GDP alone is 10 times th…”

“1. What steps she plans to take to ensure that new housing developments have adequate access to primary health services.”

“I thank the other hon. Members who took part in the visit to Ukraine for their powerful speeches. I share their emotions about the visit. Last Saturday was particularly emotional for me because I visited a recovery centre for wounded soldiers in Ukraine. I met a soldier called Volodymyr, who had lost both his legs in a…”

“Sure. I understand that.”

“Since the summer, the chair of the Competition and Markets Authority and the chief executive of the Payment Systems Regulator have left their positions. If the leaders of regulators regularly resign if they do not agree with the Treasury’s policy proposals, in what sense can regulators be considered to be independent?”

“I understand with any severance payment that what the exact amount may be now might be slightly different to what is disclosed in the accounts, given the audit process and the accounting standards, but given you have your auditors coming in soon, perhaps you can run that by your auditor.”

“My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Does he agree that one lesson from the pandemic is that the last thing countries should do is withdraw from organisations such as the World Health Organisation and reduce international co-operation, given the risk of a future pandemic at some point?”

“indicated assent.”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his remarks and for supporting our amendment 3. We tabled that amendment because, when the Bill was first debated, the Minister spoke about it enhancing the resolution regime in response to the failure of small banks. We believe that that is appropriate. I guess it is an assessment of ris…”

“Are there areas where complaints are actually falling?”

“Why have you been cutting your pay costs at a higher rate than you are cutting headcount? Why have you been reducing pay, given the increase in caseloads and that you are not meeting your performance standards right now?”

“Your expectation is that 73% will be met within three months.”

“It is almost at 40% right now, so you almost have to double your performance.”

“Baroness Manzoor, we have seen so far that there is an awful lot going on. There is a 40% increase in cases, the car finance scandal, fraud is up 30%, and you told us that the board’s expectation is you will have 90% of cases dealt with within three months. You are at 44% right now, so why am I seeing a headcount cut o…”

“You are not very far off your auditors coming in anyway. Is it possible to write to the Committee about the exact amount, if any, that you will be disclosing in your accounts in any severance payment, given that your audit is only two months away?”

“I assume your financial year-end is 31 March.”

“In 2016, Sir Charles Bean found that the move from London to Newport had a detrimental effect on quality due to staff turnover, which could be permanent. Is that still a factor today?”

“Let me just ask a follow-up on some of Mr Dean’s points, just because it is a fundamental issue about whether the UK has a chronic long-term health problem in the labour force. If I am right in my understanding, you are very confident that it does, not only because of the robustness of your methodology and data collect…”

“You told me that you are over a third down in terms of the number of data collectors that you would like, and that you have had huge budgetary challenges, yet you are still very confident in terms of the robustness of the data that you are collecting.”

“What exactly are those ringfenced budgets that have now been released?”