Speeches by Doogan.

“The hon. Member is talking with great clarity about the number of young people who are no longer accessing the world of work, which we know can define people for the duration of their working career. Does he lament, as I do, the catastrophic changes that the Chancellor has made to the hospitality sector, taxing them ou…”

“Will we see a Kraken in the mission bay of a Type 26 sometime soon?”

“Thanks, Chair. The £50 million from the defence growth deal that went to your constituency, Minister, I think it went to your constituency in full and did not require any match funding from anywhere else. The £50 million that will go to Scotland requires match funding. Do any of the other four growth deals require matc…”

“And the doctrine.”

“It is a defence investment plan so clearly a big part of that strategic direction will be rules and priorities around procurement. What assurance can you give countless shipyards around these islands who could easily have built the equipment that was required to support the nuclear deterrent, which Serco put to Damen i…”

“I understand that. I do not think I am confused. Let us say that the Scottish Government—who of course have no responsibility for defence—decide that they can make better use of that money investing it in skills and training somewhere else. They might do that; I do not know if they well. What happens to the £50 million…”

“On that hybrid Navy that the MOD and the Navy are getting after, what assurance can you give us that the Royal Navy in the UK will be at the forefront of that, and what impact will that have on the exportability of particularly hybrid Navy capabilities and products?”

“Previously we talked about a 30-year pipeline of shipbuilding and that was the plan. Is it still the plan and how should that land with the workforce in Babcock at Rosyth, for example, who are gusting well past halfway through the current order for Type 31s? Will the DIP cover off the procurement of Type 32 and, even m…”

“Minister, given your commitment to defence, which is well understood, and that the DIP will presumably come out before recess and then we will be gone for six weeks, then we will be back, the parliamentary timetable will mean that in big timescales, two and a half-ish years after you took up your role in the Ministry o…”

“Sorry, I beg your pardon. That is a big mistake to you, I am sorry.”

“I don’t think you need to worry too much about the detail. A lot of people would just like to know the top-level number.”

“The DIP is not that important?”

“Minister, big investment in the nuclear enterprise. I don’t think we have seen the 10-year rolling figure for the nuclear enterprise for a number of years. The investments you are making will clearly have an impact on that. When will the Department publish the 10-year rolling costs for the nuclear enterprise?”

“What is your assessment of the impact that the delay in the DIP has had on investment decisions by businesses such as BAE in Glasgow and Babcock at Rosyth for investing for future orders, which currently they don’t know what they will be?”

“Irrespective?”

“Is the £50 million for Portsmouth fully set out as and where it will get spent?”

“The Minister talks up the effect that our armed forces deliver in various different theatres, but they are doing so on a shoestring. While the DIP is delayed, apprentices will not start this August in Scotland or this September in England. Investment by primes will not happen this financial year because of the delayed …”

“On the case of Peter Mandelson, the Secretary of State says, “I’m in the clear because the Prime Minister says so.” The Prime Minister is also up to his neck in the Peter Mandelson scandal, so that is no clean bill of health at all. We saw just this week a stream of gushing—nauseating, actually—messages between Peter M…”

“On the case of Peter Mandelson, the Secretary of State expects—[Interruption.]—”

“Thank you, Mr Speaker. When the Secretary of State first took up his job in government, his first priority should have been advancing the economic interests of Scotland across the world, but we now know what he was really up to instead. His first external meeting as Scotland Secretary and as a Minister was to meet Glob…”