Speeches by Twigg.

“That is exactly my point. We are way behind on that.”

“I am not sure whether it was you, Professor Clarke, or Professor Harkness, who made comments about Putin. If you go back to Hitler in the second world war, he completely lost his sense of reality and was moving divisions and armies around. Reinforcement was just not possible and he made some very bizarre decisions. How…”

“I advise Members that if they refer to Members who are not here, they should have let them know beforehand.”

“Time is moving on, so before I call the next speaker, I kindly suggest that Members keep their speeches to about six minutes so that we can get everybody in with a similar amount of time.”

“The Front Benchers will have roughly 10 minutes each.”

“I ask the Minister to leave a few minutes at the end for the hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Tom Gordon) to wind up.”

“I remind Members to bob if they wish to be called to speak in the debate.”

“I note with interest that the Minister rightly says that the need to focus on drone production is gaining more and more ground, but are we anywhere near understanding in the Ministry of Defence the sheer size and numbers of drones and counter-drones that will need to be produced now and in the future, and on a mass sca…”

“What I am hearing is that you do not have any proof or evidence that confidence has increased in the way that service complaints are being dealt with.”

“You see what I am getting at. We are looking for credible evidence and data that there is confidence. Making complaints is one thing, but actually being satisfied that a complaint has been dealt with in a proper way is another, and I am not hearing any evidence that it is happening at the moment.”

“The RAF Families Federation suggested that we need to revisit the recommendation for an independent defence authority. Do you agree?”

“Minister, the MoD has made claims about building trust in the service complaints system. Can you describe to the Committee how you can prove that is the case?”

“You describe what you are doing, which is interesting, but my question was specifically about what proof you have that confidence has increased and is increasing in service complaints.”

“But you do not have the figure.”

“That is clearly what we are interested in. You can put all the systems in place, but we need to know whether people feel confident in using the system. What proof do you have that satisfaction is increasing, or that people are more comfortable and confident in using it, to back up the system?”

“May I ask each of the service chiefs, who have mentioned the statistics on a number of issues, how the key performance indicator of 90% of service complaints being dealt with in a certain timeframe is going? Are service complaints being dealt with in the timeframe that you have agreed to? We will start with the Air Chi…”

“What were the last figures you had?”

“What about you, General Walker?”

“What is the current figure?”

“Which year was that? Are we talking about 2024 or 2025?”