Speeches by Smith.

“7. What his planned timetable is for the annual provision of £3 billion of military support to Ukraine.”

“I came back from Ukraine a week and a half ago. I was very close to the front and talked to many of the military commanders there, and they made it very clear to me that they were desperately short of artillery pieces, 155 mm, and, most importantly, munitions—they could hardly respond to the Russians. As I understand i…”

“I am not quite sure how the logic works on that. We introduced a £2 limit in the betting shops, but for some reason we have introduced a higher limit where we think the harms are greatest. Which one is wrong?”

“Mr Turner, it is, as ever, a pleasure to see you in one of these debates, even if you are not speaking on the subject. It is great to have you in the Chair. I congratulate the hon. Member for Halesowen (Alex Ballinger) on obtaining this debate. It is great to see so many Government Members taking part; there have been …”

“It is 24 February, yes.”

“Can I make one other point that has occurred to me? While we were there, we discovered all sorts of stuff about what is going on behind the scenes that very rarely gets reported. For example, there are nearly 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers right now needing prostheses. You cannot believe the scale of the tragedy that is goi…”

“We have deliberately not called for a substantive motion. We do not have a problem, in policy terms, with the Government, because, as we know, the UK has almost uniquely had no issue between parties on all of this—we have been 100% behind each other—so I do not think it is for us to lecture them. The purpose of the deb…”

“Yes, absolutely. I fully understand the restrictions and so on, but I hope that the Government might be minded to make a bit of time. If they don’t, as I say, the earliest slot in March would be a fall-back.”

“I have not officially, because I thought it was right that I came here first. Now that you have told me what you have just told me, I would be very happy to go and see the Leader of the House—I know her very well—and simply say, “Could you think about it?” But I would hope that the Committee might want to involve itsel…”

“We will take anything we can get—as long as possible, and as soon as possible.”

“Thank you very much indeed. Much of this is self-explanatory, but two points are relevant here. One is that the invasion took place on 24 February three years ago. We are not going to be able to hit that date, but as close to that date as possible is what we are after. The intriguing thing about this is that it took me…”

“I want to make a very simple point. I do not agree with the position that my hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup has taken. We spent a number of years debating this question with our Government, and we eventually came to this conclusion and the proposal went into the White Paper. Yes, of course there are i…”

“I will keep my intervention short. First, it is a significant pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. As chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on gambling reform, it is a great pleasure to be here when the regulations will hopefully be brought in at last. I welcome the long-awaited establishment of…”

“Yes, I have.”

“The economic and financial dialogue was stayed because of the brutal imposition of the national security law in Hong Kong. When the Chancellor and the Government go back to engage and reopen that dialogue, they do so on the back of things getting worse, not better. The reality I put to her is that while she was away, S…”

“I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Witham (Priti Patel) on securing this urgent question. The Minister should not take what I am about to say personally: no matter who is in government, I have been in opposition on this issue, and I continue to be so. I remind her that these seven pro-democracy campaign…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mike Martin) on securing the debate. I am sad that it has been reduced from three hours to an hour and a half, because it is an important debate, and I hope that the Minister has time to answer some of the questions. In reality, we are in a peculiar position—I do not …”

“President Trump has already said that he will continue with the payments and support. May I ask a simple question? We know from the Financial Assistance to Ukraine Bill that recently passed through the House that using the profits of assets will help to bring up to $50 billion of support to Ukraine. A previous legal co…”

“Mr Speaker, I apologise if that was the case. Yang Tengbo—H6—was, in fact, not a lone wolf. He was one of some 40,000 members of the United Front Work Department, which, as the Government know, the Intelligence and Security Committee report last year said had penetrated “every sector” of the UK economy, including by sp…”

“(Urgent Question): To ask the Government if they will make a statement on the extent of the operations of the United Front Work Department within the UK.”