Speeches by Martin.

“What would those consequences be if somebody took classified operational plans that were occurring in the next 24 or 48 hours and shared them on a messaging app? What actions would you take as a Minister?”

“Forgive me for interrupting. I am not asking you to comment on our allies. What is that Government policy? When I was in Afghanistan, I saw a staff sergeant who, by mistake, took a disc from a top-secret machine and put it into a secret machine. It went into the wrong system, which was not cleared to carry that data. H…”

“On a slightly different topic, what actions would you take if you found out that the air commodore and Mr Wyatt had been sharing classified operational plans on Signal?”

“Marvellous! Ladies and gentlemen, that was a perfect example. I could list example after example of small business owners who say, “You know what? We have had to stop 20% of our business. We are no longer able to turn a profit on it because of the time we have to spend filling out forms.” I will move on from the direct…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. We are at a key geopolitical moment, which encompasses both economic issues and security and defence issues. Britain leaving the EU has damaged our economy. That is not a supposition; it is a fact. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the watchdog the Governm…”

“Is one of the main causes of child poverty not the two-child benefit cap that the Conservative party introduced and the Labour party is continuing?”

“The shadow Minister has mentioned cafés, and when we have been debating this point previously in the House, I have mentioned Basil’s café in Tunbridge Wells. It now informs me that it is having to put its prices up because of the NIC rises. Does the shadow Minister think that we are going to see a bump in the inflation…”

“Could we bring it to a level commensurate with that in the civilian population, for instance? Could we balance out sexual offences to the same level that they occur in the civilian population?”

“I have a question for General Walker. You are aware of the more than a thousand women who shared stories on Fill Your Boots, which is a social media account about being raped, abused and harassed. I am going to read some of them out here, just to put them on the record. “I used to hold my breath in my room at night whe…”

“Sorry to cut you off, but how many people have been sacked from the Army in the last four years, say, because of allegations like this?”

“Minister, where does the treatment of women sit within wider defence priorities?”

“Sam, what does good look like? We are doing all of this. I accept that we are not going to get rid of it entirely. Any organisation is always going to have problems, but what does good look like?”

“What is the metric? Give me a number—by what date and what level?”

“To what?”

“That is hard to measure, so should we put a number on it? Would you commit to putting a number on it in the Army?”

“It does feel hard to measure though.”

“T9. Kent county council plans to introduce 10,000 on-street car chargers over the next decade. To put that in context, Kent has a population of 1.6 million people. At this rate, Kent will have burned down by the time we all have electric on-street car charging. What can the Secretary of State do to speed this up?”

“On Friday, I visited Kent college in my constituency, which has recently instituted a ban. Phones are collected in the morning and put into pouches, and at the end of the school day, the children can get them back. The school has found benefits for the collection of lost property, which is attached to the cages that ha…”

“Could the shadow Minister describe Liz Truss’s growth test?”

“Russia has abducted at least 19,000 Ukrainian children and transferred them to Russia. They have been told that their parents do not love them, placed in Russian homes and been re-educated. For that despicable crime and others, the International Criminal Court has issued six arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and his g…”