Speeches by Munt.

“I want to talk about your experience of setting up a constituency office. You have explained some of the difficulties. Would it have been helpful if you would have rented your predecessor's office?”

“I want to talk about your experience of setting up a constituency office. You have explained some of the difficulties. Would it have been helpful if you would have rented your predecessor's office?”

“Okay, and how much do you think the whole thing is going to cost, in the end?”

“Indeed. I accept that one is not going to iron out absolutely everything.”

“We have just touched on the subject of children. For those Members who do have children, what might the House do immediately after the election and during one’s time as an MP? What information on childcare provision in Westminster would be helpful for—it says here “candidates”, but I think probably for MPs?”

“I would be really interested to know why and where that happened, and whether it is a cluster or just chance across the sector.”

“Can you remind me, Lord Timpson: you said that out of the £82 million there was a wodge of money that had been shovelled aside for digitisation. How much was that?”

“Thank you. The hourly Crown court checks that were brought in in March seem to have prevented 23 releases in error. Was that in a particular sector or part of the prison system? What caused those near misses, and why did that bit go right?”

“I thank the Secretary of State for her statement—it was brilliant. May I raise concerns about historical data held by social media companies? Has she thought about what powers she, and parents and carers, might hold to invoke something like the right to be forgotten, in order to ensure that children’s records and data …”

“I welcome the Defence Secretary to his position and thank him for his statement. Sanctions are ineffective unless they are fully enforced, and I join the Lib Dem spokesperson, my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (James MacCleary), in pointing out that we cannot allow loopholes to undermine our sanctions regime against …”

“I cannot understand why we have to wait an extra year to introduce that provision. It will take three years, while those students are in college, for it to actually kick in, will it not? I am wondering why the Minister does not introduce the measure in September this year, with the new dental students.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Adam Dance) for securing this debate. I welcome the fact that the Government have decided to tie in newly qualified dentists so that they work in the NHS for three years, but does my hon. Friend agree that since that only starts next year, …”

“A constituent of mine who runs a small specialist defence and security business in my patch carried out £250,000 of work on a nationally significant submarine disposal programme for the Submarine Delivery Agency during a contract renewal period. The work was accepted and used, as has happened at contract boundary times…”

“My constituent Sophia is 35, has cerebral palsy and numerous other difficulties and spends her life in a wheelchair as a result of poor NHS care when she was born. Her parents have a mobility wheelchair-accessible vehicle and take her to daycare four days a week, 13 miles away, for 48 weeks of the year, clocking up 49,…”

“Thank you. The chair’s role is to be a lay person; I wondered what understanding and experience you have of the legal system and its key stakeholders.”

“I am Tessa Munt, the Member of Parliament for Wells and Mendip Hills in Somerset. Everything is in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, but I will highlight the fact that I am a director of WhistleblowersUK, which is a non-profit organisation.”

“The former chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission was known to be in favour of remote working. I wondered how you felt about remote working.”

“Thank you. Would any element of your role be online, using Teams or whatever other mechanism?”

“Do you have any other comments to make about judicial independence and how that might affect the work of the JAC?”

“Thank you.”