Speeches by Prinsley.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Twigg. I thank the hon. Member for Exmouth and Exeter East (David Reed) for introducing the debate. I also thank the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Luke Taylor), who has turned private investigator. I was very impressed by his efforts. There is no doubt that there i…”

“Give it time.”

“Student finance is complicated. With thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow South (Gordon McKee), who has been in and out of his seat all afternoon, I was able to produce a biscuit explainer today, which is available on all good social media channels. Reforming the student finance system is not straightforward…”

“Many United States service personnel from RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall live off base in Bury St Edmunds. Three planes from Lakenheath were shot down in friendly fire over Kuwait last week. Fortunately, the pilots were rescued. Mildenhall is home to a large fleet of aerial refuelling tankers. I do not know whether …”

“I wish to make a medical point. Considering the clear evidence for the genetic propensity of Jews to develop certain medical conditions and diseases, is it not right that, in terms of data, the NHS and the Department of Health and Social Care treat Jews as both a religious and an ethnic group?”

“11. If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the rate of state pension.”

“I declare an interest, in that I receive a state pension. [Hon. Members: “No! No way!”] We welcome the Government’s commitment to the triple lock, but some pensioners in my constituency continue to live in poverty and isolation, and are in need of food banks. What specific measures can the Government take to reduce soc…”

“Iran has a network of proxies and lone actors who threaten our security here at home. Will the Secretary of State join me in thanking all the volunteers of the Community Security Trust who protect our Jewish places of worship and schools? Never have they been more crucial.”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) for this important debate. I pay tribute to her political expertise in this area and for everything she has done. Dame Cicely Saunders—much quoted in this debate—was the founder of the hospice movement in this country. She understood that medicine is …”

“Has the Leader of the House had the opportunity to see the shocking Channel 4 programme “Dirty Business”? It brought to my mind Mr Binks of Stowmarket, who showed me a collection of photographs of the River Gipping over 50 years. They showed a once navigable river, full of fish and clear water, which is now blocked wit…”

“Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”

“I am grateful to the shadow Secretary of State, who is, as he says, my Suffolk neighbour. Suffolk is home to the United States air force base at Lakenheath. The American air force has been our enduring friend since at least the second world war. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we must do all that we can to support t…”

“Surely you must agree that we should move to one number for one person? I come back to the NHS number: people are born with an NHS number, which could be their number. It could be on their passport, driving licence and all their Government documents. Why do we need a system which keeps changing the number?”

“So you would anticipate it was geographically located in the United Kingdom, for instance?”

“May I ask about security? Where is this data? How secure is it? Is it physically somewhere? Is it in some great storage system in Iceland? Where is this thing kept?”

“Finally, do you see the digital ID as having any role in the voting system?”

“I accept that there are problems with the curriculum in Palestinian schools, but the eyes of the world are now distracted, and settlement expansion continues, as far as we can tell. I am concerned that when the dust settles and the rubble is cleared, the viability of the Palestinian state will be significantly jeopardi…”

“It seems to me that everybody in this country already has a digital ID. They have an NHS number; they get when they are born. The NHS app is being increasingly used and is proving very popular. It seems to me that a Government digital ID is something will have to be sold to the public—the public will have to see the be…”

“Thank you. This question is really about Government-issued digital ID for right to work checks. It seems like the Government initially said that this was going to be mandatory, but then they changed it to non-mandatory. Why was that?”

“Good afternoon, everybody. This question is to Darren. In the light of the recent changes, can you please summarise the Government’s current policy on digital ID?”