Speeches by Cooper.

“As I say, it sounds fantastic, but what is the reality on the ground? The input is great; the standard procedure is great. But if that applies to only one in 100 products, it is slightly less great, so numbers would be most helpful.”

“David, I will just come to you very quickly as you are at the front end of a lot of this. What is the situation abroad? Do you think the Government need more powers when it comes to holding overseas businesses to account? We can do so much in the UK, but how do we reach out beyond our own borders?”

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“In January, I wrote to the Home Secretary because a whistleblower suggested that Border Force lacked sufficient personnel to cover night sailings from Belfast and Larne to Cairnryan, the main port in my constituency of Dumfries and Galloway. We have heard today that much more focus is also needed on the clearly unlocke…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz. At first blush, the draft Scotland Act 1998 (Increase in Borrowing Limits) Order 2026 is, as outlined by the Secretary of State—we are honoured to have him with us, and it is the second time I have seen him today, which is twice more than the First Minister has…”

“Absolutely. I would like to clarify my point: it is not unreasonable in the context to look at this issue in the round. This is public money. The SNP wants to pretend that this is an internal matter for themselves, but question marks still hang over us about whether or not public money has been involved in what happene…”

“Thank you, Chair.”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for a very important question. The GDP deflator is incredibly complex, as are all these matters. We talk about cross-Government working here, and I think there is a genuine attempt by this Government, as there was by the previous Government, to maximise the money available. The system is comp…”

“This is a difficult question. Something like £1.25 of public money is spent in Scotland compared to £1 in England. There is tension there within that settlement. That money reflects the difficulties that Scotland faces. Delivering public services in Scotland is difficult because of geography and also because of demogra…”

“3. What recent discussions he has had with the First Minister of Scotland on a new referendum on Scottish independence.”

“My constituents will be alarmed to hear that, because Labour’s “devolve and forget” approach is a huge problem. When the Secretary of State is away, the nats will play. We know that the First Minister has gone abroad using taxpayers’ money to talk about the breaking up of Britain. Should the Secretary of State not be i…”

“In January, I wrote to the Home Secretary because a whistleblower suggested that Border Force lacked sufficient personnel to cover night sailings from Belfast and Larne to Cairnryan, the main port in my constituency of Dumfries and Galloway. We have heard today that much more focus is also needed on the clearly unlocke…”

“May I come to you on that point, Professor Carr? The Committee constantly hears about Government working in silos. This seems to be another case of that, where different people in different parts of the forest are beavering away doing very good work individually but, without joining it up, it is all ultimately rather a…”

“You have touched on the approach of other countries to all this and what they are doing. Both Europe and America have been mentioned as, obviously, very close partners. The US has gone down the route of the Connected Vehicle Security Act, which specifically targets vehicles from named countries. That looks fairly water…”

“Charles, I will come to you on this. We are basically riding our luck at the moment; we are trusting the Chinese Communist party not to do anything with this data. We know they have it, and we do not really seem to be able to stop them from having it, so we are hanging on and hoping that they do not use it in a bad way…”

“It is obvious that if you were able to harvest secret data from another country, that could be usable. What possible uses could any state actor have for information about us as individuals? I am not quite clear on that. I hope we are not going to hear that you can send a kill switch out for an individual person. If the…”

“Touching on data collection, there seems to be an incredible ability to harvest data; there may be little indication that they are doing much with it, but the ability certainly is there. How much of a risk is that? Mr Parton, I think you have talked about this previously. Tor, are there implications for national securi…”

“I will finish. Of course, the legislation approving abortion in this country came through the private Member’s Bill route, but that was backed by the then Labour Government, who appointed a medical advisory committee that also supported its passage. That was a gold standard, against which this Bill is mere base metal. …”

“I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman that this Bill has huge difficulties, and its popularity does not capture those. The Salisbury-Addison convention that the Lords will not seek to prevent the Government from implementing manifesto pledges simply does not apply. In this case, it has not been breached. The Gover…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under the iron grip of your chairmanship, Sir Edward. We are here not to relitigate the substance of the assisted dying Bill, but to consider a profound change to the way we in this place carry out our duties as legislators. The petitioners seek, in short, for a failed Bill to be smashed throu…”