Speeches by Jopp.

“13. What steps she is taking to support children with SEND who do not have an education, health and care plan.”

“The Leader of the House mentioned the statement by the Secretary of State for Defence about the super-injunction. The Defence Committee will undoubtedly embark on an inquiry, but before we do, can the Leader of the House state very clearly the Government’s position? Is it ever right to use a super-injunction?”

“Thank you, Mr Speaker. Following the magnificent success of the England cricket team earlier this week and the triumphal return of Mr Jofra Archer, does the Prime Minister agree that what he needs from his Ministers over the next 12 months is more pace and less spin?”

“Q11. I can see why you call these sessions Prime Minister’s questions and not Prime Minister’s answers, Mr Speaker.”

“We have been using floating solar technology in this country since 2016. Last month, the French started the largest plant in Europe, producing 74.3 MW. The Chinese have single plants that produce 350 MW. Given the scale of its use across the world, bar Britain, why did the Secretary of State refer to floating solar as …”

“I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement and the tone of voice with which he delivered it. I commanded the Scots Guards in 2010 in Afghanistan, at the high watermark of violence. I was very well served by Naz and Mukhtar, and I will always be grateful both to the Ministry of Defence for getting them to Britain and …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank the 170,000 people who signed the petition, particularly those from my Spelthorne constituency. I served four tours in Northern Ireland and dedicated three and a half years of my life to trying to bring peace to that place. My first tour was in Belfa…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“The hon. Member is giving a powerful speech. Will he put on record whether he thinks that any of the 500 veterans who he has met are naive?”

“I declare an interest as a Surrey Member of Parliament, and my constituency of Spelthorne is the northernmost borough of Surrey. Can I just confirm whether the changes that we are making today still require Spelthorne borough council to give permission for compulsory purchase, when we have handed those powers to Surrey…”

“It is just that I identified a bit of a schism between what you said and what the Minister was saying. Minister, I thought you were going to suggest something like you could not attain starred rank unless you had done a NATO post, and yet the Air Vice-Marshal said that the career managers have taken away the SDR, they …”

“Begging your indulgence, Chair, I want to stay on this issue for one more question. Air Vice-Marshal, have you ever done a NATO job?”

“Some of your best friends have been to NATO. Air Vice-Marshal Flewin And have done very well in their careers. To the point that people do not have a fulfilling career out there, I think there is evidence to counter that. I think people go out, enjoy the role, enjoy the centrality of the role and the career, and then w…”

“Thank you very much indeed. Moving on to the prioritisation of resourcing between NATO and the Joint Expeditionary Force, who makes those balance of investment and resource prioritisation decisions in the Ministry of Defence?”

“It is worth giving you the feedback—I have to be very careful to launder my sources here—that on one of our visits we got the impression from a NATO perspective that, to a certain extent, JEF activities represented buccaneering privateers and were not altogether helpful in the NATO construct. That is what was suggested…”

“I want to be clear: Minister, you described it as coming in for “ministerial sign-off”, and Mr Wyatt describe it as requiring “political direction”. I just note that distinction.”

“Minister, fairly recently there was a major incident where three electricity substations caught fire and Heathrow airport went dark. Could that happen to any of our UK airbases?”

“Okay. I do not know whether I can take from that that you know the answer to the question I asked or not. I will turn to Mr Wyatt to ask a slightly different question in the context of defence reform, a more muscular policy shop, a military execution arm and an armaments director. Bear in mind that the Minister said, “…”

“Wonderful, thank you.”

“One of the recommendations in the strategic defence review was for further investment into an integrated air and missile defence system for the United Kingdom. Obviously, the defence investment strategy is going to cover the detail of that, but could you just give us, in policy terms, a sense of any capability choices …”