Speeches by Jardine.

“Thank you all for joining us. Professor Lees, I wonder if we could start with you. We are particularly interested in whether the Royal College of Surgeons has any view on the safety of breast implants, particularly in the light of the emerging evidence of the potential effects on women’s health and what we have all hea…”

“You were told it was safe. Would you say that perhaps that lack of awareness that we have heard about earlier needs to be addressed, and addressed quickly?”

“It is interesting you say that. You obviously believed it was safe.”

“Sasha, I wonder if I could ask you those two questions as well. First, what do you think is driving this increase? Would you agree with Ashton?”

“Is the rise uniform across the board, or is it most notable in certain demographics? If it is, why do you think that is?”

“Ashton, the number of cosmetic procedures has been steadily rising in recent years. What do you think is driving this?”

“I am sorry to press you on that, but will this database be used to come to a view or a recommendation of any sort on the safety of breast implants?”

“Are there any plans to examine whether you need to make a formal decision, or any inquiry under way?”

“Every year, an estimated 5,000 British citizens are arrested abroad, many of them under false pretences. Many are used as hostages and denied access to legal representation, and their families are left without information, not knowing what has happened to them. High-profile cases at the moment include those of Alaa Abd…”

“6. Whether his Department plans to introduce a statutory right to consular assistance.”

“A number of constituents of mine in Edinburgh West—former police officers, and former and current NHS staff—have come to me with concerns about the way the McCloud judgment on public sector pensions is being implemented, and worries that they will be negatively impacted at great cost. How will the Government ensure tha…”

“The Home Secretary spoke about attracting the best and the brightest to this country. One area in which our universities do that is the medical profession. During the covid crisis and the rebuilding after it, a lot of the people on the frontline were immigrants. When she looks at the resettlement and reassurance of exi…”

“I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh). This is a debate that I wish we were not at. I wish there was no need for us to have this debate, but sadly there is. This is an issue that I have come to know more about personally in the last few months, after a young constituent came t…”

“I appreciate that the hon. Member is speaking about St George’s day and English affairs, but I would just take issue with his use of the phrase “break up” to describe the effect of devolution on our country. We devolved some of the power closer to the people so that they felt more represented. That was not an attempt t…”

“I thank the Minister for his statement. There has been a great deal of reassurance for the car industry and agriculture, but there has been no mention of the Scotch whisky industry or the drink and food industry in general. In Edinburgh, as in much of Scotland, that is a huge concern. Should we expect details next week…”

“The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Data can be susceptible and its breach is a breach of privacy. Does he agree that one danger in new clause 21, about the data on individuals’ sex at birth, is that it risks breaching someone’s privacy if they have kept that fact private and that data becomes public knowledge…”

“Three years after Baroness Kennedy’s groundbreaking review on tackling misogyny in law, late on Friday, the SNP said that it would scrap its planned Bill to tackle widespread misogyny and hatred against women. Plans to tackle misogynistic harassment, the stirring up of hatred, and sending threatening or abusive communi…”

“A constituent wrote to me recently about problems with the financial ombudsman. He waited months for it even to begin the investigation, and despite receiving an apology for the delay, when he then had a subsequent related complaint, it again took weeks before he got any reply, and that was to say, “Sorry, we can’t beg…”

“My constituents in Edinburgh West, like many others across Scotland and the UK, depend on energy-intensive industries for their livelihoods: defence, whisky and Grangemouth. How can the Minister reassure people who are already suffering because of high domestic energy prices that the situation will not be made worse by…”

“I welcome what the Minister has outlined and his reassurances about resilience, particularly to a cyber-attack. However, there is also the danger that if we hand over the on/off switch for vital energy supplies to a foreign country, they can be switched off without our control. What mitigations are the Government consi…”