Speeches by Tapp.

“I thank the Minister for his answer. The new Rail Baltica, under construction from Warsaw to Estonia, is a potentially useful project to assist troop movement, if needed in the future. Does the Minister agree that we and our allies need to be agile to respond to the threats emanating from Russia, particularly in suppor…”

“4. What steps he is taking with his international counterparts to improve troop mobility across Europe.”

“The Port of Dover has ambitious targets to be the first green shipping corridor. What are the Government’s plans to ensure sufficient power supplies to the port for ships to plug into?”

“T6. I am absolutely delighted to see the Government pushing forward with the new lower Thames crossing. Are there plans to explore widening the carriage in the parts that need it from the crossing to Dover to assist trade transit?”

“14. What steps she is taking to support sustainability in the maritime sector.”

“Hello, thanks for coming in. I am the Member of Parliament for Dover and Deal, and I previously worked for the National Crime Agency.”

“Sticking with staffing—you touched on some of it there when you mentioned overcrowding, experience, recruitment and training—would you say that prison staff see promoting rehabilitation as an integral part of their role after they have been recruited and trained?”

“That fits nicely with the next part of the question: to what extent are prison staff able to balance the role of managing a safe and secure estate with promoting rehabilitation? We have recently seen awful media reports of attacks on prison staff. Is there a point where the threat posed by an individual means there are…”

“Would you say that that lack of control comes from overcrowding and understaffing in general?”

“Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?”

“I thank the shadow Home Secretary for his condescending tone after his deluded rant. I must say to him that he is misleading the House: 400 crossed in 2018, and more than 150,000 have crossed since. The majority of those were on the Conservative Government’s watch, so how they can claim that that happened on Labour’s w…”

“The Opposition like to talk about and obsess over caps. Does the Home Secretary agree that it might have been sensible for the previous Government to place a cap on the number of Home Secretaries they had to churn through to deliver their failed open-border project?”

“declared on the register—and I worked for the National Crime Agency in the past.”

“Thank you, Chair. I just want to pick up a little more on referrals, which I was going to talk about later, but, as we are touching on that now, the Law Commission consultation on criminal appeals in February said that the current referral test is hindering the correction of miscarriages of justice and that a non-predi…”

“Just to get this right: who makes the decision on the test that is applied? Is that Parliament?”

“Thank you.”

“Is that a perception thing maybe around independence?”

“We are going to look at independence now—a new area. First, more generally, how would you characterise the current working relationship with the Ministry of Justice now? Has it changed since you have joined?”

“That is good to hear.”

“That is good to hear. Have you met with Ministers or officials from MOJ since Helen Pitcher resigned as chair?”