Speeches by Twigg.

“What stopped it?”

“The tension on immigration we all know well. In your view, did that influence the length of the period that the injunction was kept for? Do you think that became a real concern of Government at any point?”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr (Steve Witherden) on securing the debate and on making such a brilliant case for science and discovery centres. I am not sure many of us could add much more to the core case he made, other than to talk about our own areas. I am very pleased to spe…”

“Are we talking about reducing programmes, changing programmes or taking programmes backwards?”

“So we are talking about cuts to programmes.”

“I am trying to say: is there any possibility, based on what you are currently looking at, which does not involve cuts to programmes or, again, putting back programmes for a number of years, that would not bring about a funding shortfall without extra funding from the Treasury? Is there any scenario?”

“With respect, I have been very specific in my question. I take what you said about not wanting to go into the details of the programme at this point, but the question is quite simple: is there any scenario that can be delivered without cutting current programmes or reducing planned work that would ensure we don’t have …”

“Do you have any idea when that plan might be in place? I am trying to get the sense of urgency here, and your concerns, because if service personnel are going to get wounded or hurt, we want to make sure that they have the best possible health services available to them.”

“So without doing that, there is no way you can avoid a funding shortfall. That is what you are saying.”

“CDS, is there any scenario that you can explain to us where, without cutting the programmes or rolling back on planned work, there would not be a significant shortfall in funding?”

“Let us get to this plan. Where are we on that?”

“So you have concerns that, at the moment, we are not there.”

“They did a fantastic job. But the NHS was in a much better position then: it was coming out of a very difficult period and was starting to get a lot of additional funding and make a lot of improvements. If we had twice the level of casualties we had in Iraq and Afghanistan in a future conflict, do you have concerns abo…”

“I am after your opinion on the Defence Medical Services. When I was a Minister from 2006 to 2008, one of my priorities was to sort out the problems with the Defence Medical Services, so I have some understanding of the issues. I think that, generally, the Defence Medical Services and the NHS kept on top of the casualti…”

“But in the process currently, you do not have enough money to meet what you want to do.”

“Either way, you have confirmed that you are overspent at the moment.”

“How much is that currently forecast to be? Sir Richard Knighton And I am not going to talk about that in public. Those conversations are happening right now between the accounting officer and Ministers and officials in the Treasury.”

“With the greatest respect, I understand the process. I am trying to find out whether you currently have an underspend or overspend on each of your budgets in each—”

“Maybe you can answer it.”

“How much of that went into defence nuclear?”