Speeches by Green.

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

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

“May I ask the same questions to Fran?”

“Do you mean by region?”

“When do you think you will meet them?”

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

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

“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…”

“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…”

“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?”

“Understood.”

“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…”

“I would like to turn to employer engagement. The NAO Report acknowledges that the Ministry of Defence “agreed a new operating model” for defence relationship management back in October. At the time that the NAO was drafting its Report, that was in the process of being rolled out. General Overton, I am keen to hear how …”

“If the service level agreements are as detailed as you say, does that mean there is a very good understanding from the RFCAs’ point of view of what exactly they are being asked to provide and what services are required of them?”

“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?”

“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 put on the record the fact that I am a participant in the armed forces parliamentary scheme. This weekend, I really enjoyed meeting some of the Air Cadets and Army Cadets at the Chesham carnival, who were a fantastic advert for what we are talking about today. I want to ask about the implementation of the Sullivan re…”

“4. What steps he is taking to increase grid capacity.”

“I thank the Minister for his response. He will know that some projects are waiting up to 15 years to connect to the grid, and the Secretary of State earlier referred to the zombie waiting list. Could I push him further and ask precisely what concrete steps the Department is taking to drastically cut that waiting list?”