Speeches by Martin.

“Like my hon. Friend, I have spent a fair amount of time on the ocean —not rowing but sailing. When sailing across oceans in a small boat, one cannot help but see the seas of plastic, whether left by fishermen or simply thrown overboard, that are carried on currents. Does my hon. Friend think the treaty goes far enough …”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“I will not take any interventions, as so many hon. Members are seeking to get in. The combination of highly skilled individuals and three-generational families means that, quite rightly, not everyone in a family goes to work, so what about the carers, part-time workers, the elderly and students? If a person is studying…”

“I thank the Minister for announcing this Bill to Parliament, and I broadly welcome the provisions within it, particularly the proposal on conversion from leasehold to commonhold—I think that is excellent. By my count, there are about 4.8 million leaseholders in England. Do the Government envisage driving this process s…”

“That is the good. What is the bad? What frustrates you about the process? How would you tweak it or what tweaks have you made as you have been rolling this out?”

“How many people are needed?”

“Can you give some specific examples?”

“What would the percentages be across those three?”

“Is that going to be different in one, two or five years’ time? Do we see that shifting?”

“Secretary of State, I can see that you want to keep this big picture. Following in that theme, I noticed across the Quads you have four budget holders and all their spend is categorised as either invest, readiness or operate, and that seems like a very sensible innovation. Could you tell me the balance or percentages o…”

“So that shift is going to move from less investment, more operational—”

“Secretary of State, what does success look like for defence reform? We are probably a year, 18 months into it now.”

“What does the end of the defence reform process look like when it has achieved its goals?”

“Far be it from me to speak in the Minister’s place, but surely the hon. and learned Gentleman has answered his own question. In forcing local authorities that are controlled by Sinn Féin to give due regard to veterans would we not be giving away the identity of those veterans to Sinn Féin controlled councils that may p…”

“My constituent Andrew co-founded Adzuna, a job search website built on artificial intelligence. Its research shows that existing AI tools could improve the DWP’s service and create 250,000 more jobs per year. However, it is reported that the new rebuild of the service is not going to include those AI tools. Can the Sec…”

“That is fine until you have a security crisis and then your military is exposed. Mr Heappey is nodding, again—for the benefit of Hansard. You have a white tie there—”

“And you get shown up. Exactly.”

“Everyone would accept that the nuclear deterrent needs to remain confidential, but as we have discussed, there is a huge amount of other stuff that does not even make it to this Committee or parliamentarians. I note for Hansard that Mr Heappey is nodding his head behind you. This is not about particular politicians or …”

“Yes.”

“I am just trying to get to the bottom of this. You asked for an ordinary injunction, where the contents of what the notice covers is to be kept secret, but the existence of the injunction itself is not. That is what you asked for, but is it fair to say that the judge looked at the reasoning in your submission—”