Speeches by Green.

“How does that work in practice? If there are different Government Departments or agencies working on projects that are related in some way, who decides that they need to be talking to each other and making sure that they are complementing each other and providing value?”

“I am keen to explore a bit more how you will prevent announcing projects too early, like before their feasibility, before they have been assessed as to whether they are good to go, and before announcing the budgets and timeframes. How are you going to stop that from happening? We are talking about politicians here.”

“In terms of those uncertainties and risks right at the beginning of a project, going forward, how will you make sure those risks are better understood and teased out? We could all list examples of where that has gone wrong.”

“How does that work in practice? If you have committed to a power station or a railway line, are you really going to not release the money?”

“You have mentioned HS2. Does this mean that the reset of HS2 currently is going through this process? It does not agree with the Department for Transport on how much it is going to cost. How is that working in practice?”

“The Family Justice Board set five key priority indicators. May I ask Luke and Fran why you are not meeting four of them?”

“When do you think you will meet them?”

“Do you mean by region?”

“May I ask the same questions to Fran?”

“How long do you think it will take to meet those remaining four indicators?”

“To phrase that question slightly differently, if you came back this time next year, how much will have changed?”

“I have too many constituents whose financial abuse is effectively being perpetuated and facilitated by the Child Maintenance Service. I have secured a meeting with the relevant Minister in the other place, but it has been postponed. Could the Minister help me to secure a date for that meeting? I am sure that he would a…”

“7. What steps her Department is taking to help prevent the use of the child maintenance system to facilitate economic abuse.”

“I rise to speak in favour of this Bill. First, though, I thank the hon. Member for Spen Valley (Kim Leadbeater) for the way in which she has approached the Bill, and for having engaged with Members across the House on both sides of the argument on their various amendments. I voted in favour of the Bill on Second Readin…”

“On the NDPB, you confirmed to the Chair that the Government intend to go ahead with that. What progress has been made and what timeline are you working to on that?”

“Was that not happening before?”

“I would like to speak about the service level agreements that were mentioned earlier. The NAO Report clearly states that all four recommendations were implemented. I am keen to understand how they are working in practice. General Overton, what do they look like at this point in time, and how could they be improved?”

“Understood.”

“Turning to you, General Gordon, the other thing that the NAO Report said was that “The MoD told us that it had also asked the Council to carry out a ‘zero-based review’ of all RFCA activity, including DRM, to identify areas where savings might be made.” Have you identified any of those savings yet?”

“I am keen to understand that account management better, because you said that it has been a huge success, and that is clear from the numbers. The NAO Report says that “Increasing numbers of employers signing up meant that each DRM account manager had around 180 accounts on average, approximately 10 times as many as the…”