Speeches by Jopp.

“13. What steps she is taking to ensure that property management companies are adequately regulated.”

“On Friday, I met with Jacqui, Gary and Simon in Fairwater Drive in my Spelthorne constituency. Jacqui’s service charge is going up from £1,500 a year to £4,800. I sat down and had a look at the bills, and they are without any itemisation, so it is impossible to know where to start with the property manager. The Ministe…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I congratulate the hon. Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) on securing this debate. I hope my speech will be a lesson to those hon. Members lucky enough to not yet have an incinerator in their constituency. The Surrey waste transfer station is in my cons…”

“I want to add my own words of tribute to my brothers in the Irish Guards. My warrior sergeant was a man a called Glyn Crawley. As a result of an accident he had, I think as a child, he only had one eye, and he was known universally as the “one IG”, which is one for the military among us to appreciate. In the 1st Battal…”

“I am very grateful for your forbearance, Mr Pritchard, and it is a great honour to serve under your chairmanship. [Interruption.]”

“I thank the Minister and the right hon. Member for Belfast East (Gavin Robinson) for their generosity. Before the suspension, I was talking about the extraordinary work of the Blackthorn rally. It is great fun, delivers conservation projects around the world and takes with it former service personnel who are in some ca…”

“I can see that Dr Alexandra is desperate to get in, but I want to ask one more supplementary question. Have you made any form of assessment of the impact of the North Korean contribution to the Russian forces?”

“Those were two amazing opening remarks. Given the frantic rewriting of questions all around me, I am very glad I went first.”

“Professor, good morning and thank you for coming this morning. You were required reading at various courses that I did throughout my military career, so it is a great pleasure to see you in person. Could we set the context for our discussion and invite you to give us your assessment of where we are currently at in Ukra…”

“Dr de Hoop Scheffer, is there anything you would like to add?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) on securing this debate. In my constituency of Spelthorne, we have 2,500 veterans, and I want to talk about one of them—Alderman Robin Sider, who was awarded the British Empire Me…”

“Does the Minister have full confidence in the chair of the NHS Business Services Authority?”

“In Ashford and Staines in my constituency we have a real plague of shoplifting and antisocial behaviour. Inspector Matthew Walton of the North division is doing a great job with his team to tackle it, in combination with the community and the retailers, but still the problem is getting worse. After the success of the f…”

“We may disagree about what we heard earlier on today in the spring statement about whether the economy is growing, but we are certain that this Government will grasp ever more desperately at the will-o’-the-wisp of growth in the months and years to come. Does he agree that—unlike the hon. and learned Member for Folkest…”

“I am tempted to say, “Thank you, Mr Hacker”, but I will not. We visited the National Cyber Force and Strategic Command. At one stage, there was the phrase “Whitehall customer group”. This question is about our own grey zone within Whitehall. If bad guys attack NHS IT systems, that is the defensive play part of the nati…”

“Minister, you said that the defence review will reflect its terms of reference, although the Robertson review is a 2.5% review. It has been slightly overtaken by events, because the Prime Minister has now said that it will be 3% in the next Parliament. Are you going to have another review to work out how to spend that …”

“Are the Government considering sending failed asylum seekers to overseas return hubs?”

“I am glad that you said that last bit, because the way in which we have been talking up until now suggests that the hybrid activity stops when the war goes hot. It seems from the outside that, in a period of relatively low military activity for the last 10 years, defence has side-slipped into this. It is unerringly can…”

“I am sure that that phrase meant a lot to you when it came out of your mouth, Minister, but I am a simple soldier.”

“Listening to you talk there, Minister, it strikes me that we have a bit of a problem in as much as our messaging is not quite as clear as it could be. You said that it would not be helpful to come in and tell the people that they are under threat, because that would be counterproductive. Equally, you want to take the p…”