Speeches by Jopp.

“On that, will he give way?”

“Mr Carlier, I want to come back to “start on time and stay the course”. In that last conversation, we got a very clear analysis of what “start on time” looks like, and also of the rebalancing—that was very helpful too. In terms of “stay the course”, money is a function of political will. Do the three of you, on your st…”

“Thank you for coming to bring your expertise today. As a Committee we were in Washington earlier in the year, and we were given quite a rosy picture by the embassy staff who had a specialist in getting on the ITAR train, but we equally have heard—within our own constituencies, I am sure, and when we were over in the St…”

“I met an SME at DSEI that asked me, “Does the British Government know it is being legged over by the primes by simply adding margin and no value on to the invoices I send them?” So there are other perspectives.”

“Andrew slightly touched on part of the answer to this question. Forgive me, I do not know whether you were in the first session, when we had BAE, Rolls-Royce and Babcock. I do not want you to bite the hand that feeds you, but are our 18 primes doing enough, or investing enough, in the skills they need in order to deliv…”

“It is nice to see the Union represented so well in the accents on display from our witnesses today.”

“That might be a question we can ask when we are out there, in order to get a comparison.”

“Do you have a sense of how long it takes in Australia?”

“Can you put a figure on that? That it used to take x months, but it is now taking y weeks.”

“Well, none of you is jumping forward particularly quickly, I notice.”

“I thank the hon. and learned Member for his intervention. I am going to be a bit “beggar thy neighbour”-ish, I am afraid, but my reason for highlighting the Stanwell hotel is that I believe a number of the other contracts run to two or three years longer than the one there. Given that it is Government policy to close a…”

“I omitted to say that, in Stanwell’s case, all the families who were moved out of the hotel were simply moved to another hotel, so although I agree with the hon. Member, he needs to know what his Government are up to in order to make his case more strongly.”

“The previous Schools Minister, the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell), was so excited to hear from me about Manor Mead special school in my constituency that she undertook to visit it. Sadly, she had to cancel that visit and has now clearly moved on to other things, so would the new Schools…”

“My party’s responsibility—although I was not here myself—is not just for signing the contracts for the hotels; it is for losing control of our borders in the first place. The Government have said they are going to get control of the borders, but sadly the numbers simply do not support that. I did not intervene on the h…”

“When President Macron visited earlier this year, he said part of the problem was that there were far too many pull factors in Britain. Giving people the right to work would, to my mind, be another pull factor. The Government would quite rightly say, “Well, you didn’t manage to do it either,” but I would much rather we …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. In my constituency we have the Stanwell hotel, which is currently an asylum hotel. From correspondence in my mailbag, I had heard there was the potential for the Home Office to change its policy on use. Hitherto, the capacity for families at the Stanwell h…”

“The hon. and learned Member said he met an asylum seeker at Napier barracks who said that they just wanted to be safe. Assuming that they had come from France, did he investigate with that person why they were unsafe in France?”

“I thank the Minister, the shadow Minister and all hon. Members who have contributed to this debate. I fear that it has been a bit of a conversation of the deaf, but we will see whether the number of women employed in this country goes up or down. We will see whether the number of disabled people employed in this countr…”

“I thank and congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Goole and Pocklington (David Davis) on securing this emergency debate. The focus of the debate thus far has been primarily on three areas: the victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s appalling crimes, the conduct of Lord Mandelson prior to his being appointed and the ju…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of employment rights on businesses. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. Members across the House will know that I have the distinct honour of being the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne, which is not in Lincolnshire or Lancashire; it…”