Speeches by Martin.

“How do we compare to other European countries or other structures such as the EU or NATO? Do they also have these problems?”

“How are they bringing in SMEs?”

“In that sense, it is primes with SMEs docking into them, a bit like we have now, but you are saying it is working better there than it is here. Why is that?”

“So it is literally just more juice.”

“Hawkhurst parish council and Southern Water recently came to see me to complain about a number of developers in my constituency who have mixed surface run-off with foul water, which is illegal. Does my hon. Friend agree that, although we of course need big housing developments, if developers are proven to have illegall…”

“The hon. Lady is a great fan of honesty in this Chamber, so I am sure that she will give me an honest answer. One way of understanding Brexit is that it replaced a circular flow of people with a one-way flow of people. Does she think that Brexit increased or decreased migration into this country?”

“Will the shadow Secretary of State give way?”

“Does the Minister find it strange that in a debate on a Bill so important to Reform UK—indeed, it is the party’s raison d’être—80% of Reform UK MPs have left the Chamber and are, presumably, in the pub?”

“The hon. Member is speaking eloquently about the need for joined-up financing and fundraising for defence, but the other side of that issue is clarity about what the Government want. A key example is space: the UK has significantly underperformed and punches well below its weight in defence space, which is spread acros…”

“Ms Suess, I am interested in the conversation about Russia and China and would like to broaden it to the members of the UN Security Council. How would you rate or rank the P5 in terms of their space capabilities?”

“Do all the other P5 countries have a unified space strategy, organisation and so forth? I noticed that you said earlier that we had two strategies.”

“Gabriel, would you agree with that?”

“That is helpful; thank you. Ms Suess, as Fred alluded to earlier, in the integrated review in 2021 we put aside just under £1.5 billion for space defence. Is that being spent on the right priorities and is that capability development on track? How are we doing with that wish list?”

“Thank you. Gabriel, do you have any final points to add on that?”

“So you would put Russia above the UK and France.”

“This is perhaps a question for the Minister for the Armed Forces, who I notice is also on the Front Bench. On the buffer zone, can the Minister state categorically that it will be sufficiently wide to protect all the capabilities on the base?”

“Dr Alexandra, I will pick up on something you said there about American credibility. You do not think that there will be a total drawdown of American support to Ukraine because of that American credibility. That is exactly what we saw when Trump negotiated a deal in Afghanistan. That was not a deal; it was a capitulati…”

“That is really interesting and quite heartening, although “escalate to de-escalate” is a reflection of Russian doctrine, is it not? Taking that all into account, there are various pathways here, Dr Alexandra. Is there a chance of a ceasefire then a peace deal, or a peace deal then a ceasefire? Do you think that, with t…”

“Professor Freedman, it seems that the demands of Russia and the demands of Ukraine and Europe are mutually exclusive and have not really changed much. Just quickly, what would you say is the likelihood of a ceasefire then peace, or peace then ceasefire?”

“Have the interventions of Donald Trump over the last few months shifted the dial at all on the prospects for peace in Ukraine?”