Speeches by Lowe.
Every Hansard contribution by Rupert Lowe this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 401–420 of 592 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “Thank you. While we have got the supremo of OSCAR II here—the man who drives the national assets and liabilities—I have a bugbear, and this “rubbish in, rubbish out” point plays into it. As I understand it, this feeds up into OSCAR II, so the Whole of Government Accounts will be a subset of what goes into OSCAR II.” | 59 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “My opinion is that OSCAR II basically understates our liabilities and overstates our assets. I think to some extent it is delusional. If you put nonsense data in, you get nonsense data out. If we are feeding all this nonsense data into OSCAR II, how confident are you that we actually do know the financial position of U…” | 59 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “How does that square with a briefing we had this week that said that the Government do not know how much they are spending on external consultants? They do not have a washboard of who they spend the money with, and they do not know how much they are spending. How does that feed into OSCAR II correctly?” | 58 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “It’s two-tiered, Geoffrey.” | 3 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “From an Abingdon boy.” | 4 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “James, I was listening to your introduction, and you talked about missing data. What is the definition of missing data?” | 20 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “So when you say missing, it just has not been submitted. Is that right?” | 14 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “That is all very well, Conrad, but at the end of the day, what is the sanction on local authorities for not populating this data? Is there any?” | 28 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “I am juxtaposing this against the private sector, where I run lots of companies. If I tell HMRC that I have missing data when it comes to my tax return, what do you think happens? Do you think they accept that, or do you think they say, “I’m terribly sorry, we’re going to assess you anyway”? Is there a divergence betwe…” | 121 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “I am a new MP, and I am also new on the Public Accounts Committee. I have attended four or five of these meetings now. I read in the NAO audit report that “of the 407 English Local Authorities that should have submitted audited data to the WGA, 167 (41%) did not submit data…and a further 224 (55%) submitted data that w…” | 219 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “What does it cost? Do we know?” | 7 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “So we don’t know what the exact cost is. When we look at ’23-24 where, to Chris’s point, you made some aspirational statements, it does not seem that we have made the progress that we hoped to make, and today we have heard more aspirations. I just question how this Committee will know you are going to make the progress…” | 84 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “Radley.” | 1 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “If I can just very quickly come in on that subject, I understood that the Treasury has given a guarantee to the Bank of England so that any losses that the Bank of England suffers are paid by the Treasury. Is that right?” | 43 |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1243) “It is all a function of interest rates, James. But at the end of the day, if the Bank of England is being covered for any losses by the Treasury, surely he who says, pays? I mean, it should be the Treasury’s decision and not the MPC’s decision.” | 48 |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Illegal Migrants: Unknown Whereabouts “I thank the hon. Member for her intervention, and I completely agree with what she has said. The girl was then pushed to her knees before being brutally raped. Another—one of too many. Last year, a 35-year-old old Iranian small-boat migrant raped a 15-year-old girl in an alleyway. He was known to police in Germany, whe…” immigrationcrime | 379 |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Topical Questions “The Chancellor has embarked on a Fabian programme of brutal tax-and-spend economics that might please the dwindling number of Labour voters, but is hollowing out the nation’s productive base. Those who take risks, invest long term and create high-quality jobs are increasingly voting with their feet. Record numbers of t…” fiscal-policyeconomy-jobscost-of-living | 93 |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Grooming Gangs: Independent Inquiry “As the Minister may know, we have been running our own independent inquiry into the rape gang scandal, funded by over 20,000 concerned people. Our hearings are taking place in early February next year. We have made immense progress to date, with more to come. Will the Home Secretary meet me to discuss how our work migh…” crimelocal-governmentsocial-care | 78 |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Illegal Migrants: Unknown Whereabouts “The scale of illegal immigration and its impact on our country is simply not understood in this Parliament, and nor do most Members even care. British people are genuinely scared—women are frightened to go into their towns alone, and parents are terrified to let their children walk to school. It is getting worse and wo…” immigrationcrime | 294 |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Illegal Migrants: Unknown Whereabouts “indicated assent.” immigrationcrime | 2 |