Speeches by Chope.

“Drilling into that, what do you mean they would be out of action for a considerable amount of time? All you mean is that they would have more stuff in their red box overnight and they would have to work a bit harder.”

“One of the issues that caused a lot of the questions was that, because the policy was being developed, nobody knew the details of it. One of the problems that you will have in the next six or nine months is what exactly is involved in the social media ban. It seems to have been produced a bit off the hoof, so isn’t tha…”

“In answer to that: no, I did not, because I was the junior Minister for the poll tax, or community charge. I think I probably had more questions than any Minister in the Government at that time.”

“Going back a few years, when I was a Minister, we did not have spads, so the Ministers took responsibility. Would it not improve the process, the timeliness and the accuracy if spads were not in the way? The Ministers decide the policy, they look at the answer that has been drafted by officials, and if they see an issu…”

“What about the Minister stage of the process?”

“Can I dig a bit further into the delays that are caused by Ministers and/or spads looking at these questions and then rejecting them? It is a very high figure—19%, although you said you got it down to 12%. Are those rejections being made by spads or by Ministers?”

“That is exactly what I did on behalf of my constituent Paul Kenchington: I wrote to the Secretary of State about the specialist steel that he uses, and I have not had a reply. Why can the Minister not say today that, until we are producing this steel ourselves, he will exempt from these tariffs all the steel that is no…”

“Graham, you and I were on the same panel at the Spectator security conference on Monday. One of the issues that came out of that seemed to be the lack of joined-up work between the Government and the security services and the operators in the North sea. We heard from Botan Osman, who was also on the panel. He is the CE…”

“Do you think this information sharing should be going both ways? It seems as though the Government and the security services often know more than some of the private operators and there is not enough information sharing.”

“Graham, you and I were on the same panel at the Spectator security conference on Monday. One of the issues that came out of that seemed to be the lack of joined-up work between the Government and the security services and the operators in the North sea. We heard from Botan Osman, who was also on the panel. He is the CE…”

“Do you think this information sharing should be going both ways? It seems as though the Government and the security services often know more than some of the private operators and there is not enough information sharing.”

“Next week, can the Leader of the House produce a Government statement in response to the Hallett review on covid-19 vaccines? Lady Hallett recommended major reform of the vaccine damage payment scheme. The Government said that they were considering the matter, but it is now more than five years since thousands of peopl…”

“When the Minister kindly came to the APPG on park homes, he heard from Nat Slade, the environmental health officer for Arun district council, about the issues he faces and the need for urgent action on complex ownership structures, which was first promised in 2017. Where is that on the Minister’s agenda?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alec. I have been involved with the park homes issue for the best part of 30 years; I have 2,000 people in my constituency living in park homes, and I am much concerned by the abuses so many of them have suffered—not just in my constituency, but across the country.…”

“We had evidence from Rolls-Royce and others involved in AMRs that was rather sceptical about whether these changes were actually happening on the ground. That is why I was asking for some specific examples of where things are different on the ground now.”

“If they are happening now, why has it not been set up at the same time?”

“Nothing has actually happened yet. You just have the plan. I was hoping you were going to say that, “As a result of these regulators knocking their heads together, I can tell you that, this last week, X was agreed, which normally would have resulted in having to go to a whole lot of other regulators”. What has actually…”

“Will the two regulators be amalgamated by the end of this month or next month? When are they going to be amalgamated?”

“Has that lead regulator now been set up?”

“Why has it not been set up already?”