Speeches by Jopp.

“You said in answer to one of those questions that some of the range of people were inside the compartment and some were not. How does that work when you are doing your cross-Whitehall triangulation and you want to talk to someone in the Home Office? Are you presented with the full list of people who are signed on, so y…”

“Forgive me if I am eating anyone else’s sandwiches, but what was your reaction when you first learnt about the super-injunction and the totality of the issue?”

“Did you have the list of everyone who was in the compartment?”

“I do not know whether you are a massive fan of “Yes, Prime Minister”, Mr Rimmer, but in a very good episode, they talk about how people are selected to run inquiries such as this—it is very memorable. I would like to leaven that with some reality, so will you talk us through how such things gestate? Is it a cosy chat i…”

“You were unaware of the super-injunction?”

“Going back to the conversation you were having with Ms Baker, you take multiple sources and try to establish that the picture you are seeing is as full as it can be. Did you triangulate with other friendly intelligence agencies? Did you have access to what they were saying and reporting to do a sanity check?”

“How does that work? Do they say, “If you were to take on this work, you will need to be signed on to a particular box,” and you say, “I am happy to do that”?”

“I completely take your point that we would have to ask the MOD folks about their contingency plan, but you are inside the machine, and your name is going to come out because you knew about all this. From a personal point of view, did you understand the mechanics? Could the judge have, all of a sudden, at one of these r…”

“But other nations’ intelligence agencies?”

“Indeed. Thank you.”

“You knew a man who could.”

“Did the MOD say, “We envisage it lasting this long,” or was it an iterative process, whereby you set the work? It is a real tip-of-the-iceberg issue; you might have thought, “What else am I going to uncover when I go through this?” What were the discussions about time balancing?”

“So you were more conscious of the risk downrange than of any, as it were, political risk of the courts here putting an increasing burden on the UK to take people.”

“If we are going to offer flexi-access drawdown, does the Minister agree that it would be better if members of defined contribution schemes had greater awareness of what their pension schemes were invested in? The latest research suggests that more than 50% of people in DC schemes do not know what they are invested in. …”

“On 6 March, the Minister kindly allowed the Defence Committee into the Ministry of Defence for a secret briefing. I would obviously never refer to the information that we received in that briefing, but it is telling that later that day, the Labour-dominated Defence Committee insisted on issuing a statement saying that …”

“I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. I hope other Members will come forward with their own preferred alternatives to land-based systems, because there are others.”

“Sorry—I am getting deluged in processes and statistics. Let me ask the question a different way. You used to work at Network Rail; is the MoD a better or worse place to be a woman than Network Rail?”

“The Minister has had even more jobs: she was briefly a civil servant before joining the military; then it was journalism, financial services and tech; and then she was a Labour Back Bencher and is now a Minister. I have a similar question; I am pressing to test whether Prospect’s statement is a valid comparator. In all…”

“I am grateful to all hon. Members who have made such powerful contributions. I love the image of the Minister under his bed clothes with a torch reading the Hansard report of my Adjournment debate. I can see the turning point where floating solar went from a nascent technology to one that the Minister wants to drive fu…”

“The hon. Lady makes a really important point. One of the massive delays in deploying solar power is the requirement to achieve planning permission, and I am so pleased that she has brought that up. One of the beauties of floating solar is that if the owner of the reservoir or former quarry will use the electricity them…”