Speeches by Baldwin.

“We appreciate the difference between annually managed expenditure and what you have put in the spending review, but do you acknowledge that a change in annually managed expenditure can sometimes have a knock-on effect on the projections and the departmental budgets that you have set out to 2029?”

“I notice that in the Office for Value for Money’s efficiency plan for the NHS, it refers to sickness absence. What is your view on sickness absence in the NHS?”

“I sort of did expect that kind of reply, but it helps me with my next question. One of the things that the Office for Budget Responsibility scored in the March statement was the changes to universal credit and the personal independence payment, which will be voted on at Second Reading next Tuesday. If that legislation …”

“In terms of the scoring, that is a significant line item in your spending review. Something like £9 billion of the £14 billion of efficiency savings come from that one area alone, so it would be helpful to get some more detail of your view, perhaps in writing to the Committee.”

“Following on from the Chair’s questions on winners and losers, I want to ask a couple of macro questions. Clearly, the Government have made a political choice to increase the envelope for public spending in this spending review faster than the projected growth in the UK economy. With the Budget last October and this sp…”

“One of the place-based features of my constituency, West Worcestershire, is that we are quite flood-prone, with the River Severn catchment and the River Severn itself. In the spending review, you have increased the amount of money for flood defences for the next three years to a £4.2 billion envelope. In the infrastruc…”

“It is wonderful to have such expertise with us this morning. What our constituents will be concerned about in particular, when they think about artificial intelligence in financial services, is how secure their data is, and in particular how much more it would increase their vulnerability in terms of crypto and cyber-s…”

“Professor Lawrence, I assume you recognise that picture. Would you be able to comment on the payment architecture itself and how vulnerable it is to the power that artificial intelligence might be able to give to the malign actors in this space? Is the Bank of England doing enough to protect itself from vulnerabilities…”

“Just as we have a Pool Re for terrorist risk, do we need a Pool Re for cyber-security risk across the financial sector?”

“I am not feeling very reassured.”

“It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mrs Hobhouse. We are scrutinising the draft Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information (Amendment) Regulations. That may sound dry, but I imagine that every colleague here has come across a case in which someone’s identity has been stolen be…”

“The Foreign Secretary has referred a number of times to the diplomatic off-ramp. Will he confirm to the House that the diplomatic off-ramp—the request of the United Kingdom to Iran—is that the regime changes its stance and finally recognises the right of our ally, Israel, to exist?”

“I rise to speak to new clause 14 and amendments (a) and (b) to that new clause. I am honoured to speak after the hon. Member for Rochdale (Paul Waugh). I also thank the hon. Member for Spen Valley (Kim Leadbeater) for working closely with us on the issue of banning advertising. Whatever our views on assisting terminall…”

“The gov.uk website, which has not been updated since 8 May, states that the Prime Minister negotiated the 25% steel tariff down to zero, but that is not right, is it? Steel faces a tariff of 25% today and runs the risk of a 50% tariff being imposed next month. Will the Minister take this opportunity to commit to updati…”

“Postmasters who were hit by the Horizon scandal will be concerned to hear Sir Alan Bates describe the compensation process as a “quasi-kangaroo court”. Can the Minister reassure postmasters about the redress that they are due, and reassure taxpayers about the redress that he is seeking from Fujitsu?”

“We have been promised a modern industrial strategy for nearly a year. First, it was going to be with us in the spring; then it was going to be published at the spending review; and now it will be here “shortly”. The industrial strategy seems to be a strategy to clobber industry with higher taxes and higher business rat…”

“I thank the Foreign Secretary for the tone of his statement and the tributes he paid to not only his predecessors, but the officials and diplomats who have been involved in the negotiations for many years. I do not think I heard an answer to the question asked by the shadow Foreign Secretary, which was: can a British c…”

“My constituents in Tenbury Wells are seeking funding for a flood defence scheme. They will have listened very closely to the Chancellor’s remarks today to hear her mention flood defence capital spending, yet it was not mentioned in her speech. Can she confirm that the capital that will be allocated in the spending revi…”

“It is not an FCA problem—is that what you are saying to the Committee?”

“I am a big fan of the sandbox. I just wanted to share that feedback.”