Speeches by Morello.

“Over what period?”

“Equivalent to what? Roughly, what would the budget look like?”

“But you know what your needs are, because the National Audit Office reckons that your annual maintenance budget is £250 million a year and presumably it is only going up with ageing assets. If you have got a run cost of £250 million increasing every year and you are nearly out of the drawdown that you can make from sal…”

“I guess where I am trying to go with this is that, if we accept the National Audit Office number or several hundred million—whatever you want it to be—and we run out of receipts from drawdown and there is nothing left to sell and the Treasury is not making up the shortfall, you hit a cliff edge, at which point you have…”

“Can I just ask whether there is any indication that if you are accurately forecasting that over a sustained period, the Treasury would reduce your headroom?”

“Sir Philip, you started off in your opening statement talking about the fact that the world has become more volatile and less predictable, and the need to be more agile in the FCDO response and think ahead to future risks. With that in mind, there was a 7% increase in the number of individuals who received the help of …”

“I do. Obviously, there have been some sales recently—the Tokyo embassy and the Bangkok embassy, which between them raised about £1 billion. The autumn Budget refers to investing funds from asset sales. What is that being invested in? Is that money being used to fund day-to-day operations, and, of that pot of money, how…”

“If you are talking about consular services being self-funded through passport levies, those are low intervention cases. If 8,000 out of the 22,000 people who were helped were vulnerable people, they would be complex interventions that do require more money. If we are talking about a more volatile world, we are talking …”

“I will come back to portfolio return in a second. Before we talk about that, you mentioned the strategy, but what metrics are we actually measuring BII against and how are they being reported? When I look at the NAO report, all I see is portfolio return numbers.”

“As in outcomes? You have just outlined what the distribution metric is.”

“If we accept that the BII is achieving outcomes along the lines of the strategy in terms of development, is the other side of that that we accept that it is loss making?”

“Given that it is designed to achieve a minimum of 2%, the seven-year weighted average shows that it was loss making in every single year apart from 2021, when it was up 11.2%. So it is only up now because of that one year. In fact, something happened in 2020-2021 that meant that you went from -3.7% to +11.2%. Outside o…”

“T3. Family farms across West Dorset fear closure as a result of the Government’s planned changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief, and I urge Ministers to rethink the policy. The Budget also included the announcement of a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism to be introduced on 1 January 20…”

“West Dorset has seen a 134% increase in the number of children requiring SEN support in the last six years. As of the latest data, more than 275 children are waiting for education, care and health plan assessments, with the average waiting time well in excess of the 20-week statutory limit. Will the Minister outline wh…”

“T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. With brevity in mind, I will just say that the Liberal Democrats support this measure to make training more convenient for drivers and small businesses. However, given the transition to e-learning, it is imperative that the quality of training is not compr…”

“18. If he will take steps to ensure that the UK Government resilience framework helps communities mitigate against flood risk.”

“Climate change means that West Dorset faces a growing flood risk, with increasingly frequent heavy rainfall flooding fields, making roads impassable and turning villages like Stratton and Maiden Newton into islands. Last year, 700 properties in my hometown of Bridport, including a school and a vital healthcare centre, …”

“To my hon. Friend’s point about the need for a regulator with teeth, West Dorset saw 45,000 hours of sewage released into our rivers and beaches last year. The River Lim last year was declared “ecologically dead”. Does my hon. Friend have a view on whether the regulator should be able to impose fines on the water compa…”

“In my constituency of West Dorset, as across the country, community pharmacies are being asked to deliver more and more primary care services, increasingly acting as an alternative to GP surgeries. They are delivering vital healthcare services such as health consultations and vaccinations; however, the funding model fo…”