Speeches by Gilbert.

“That moves us nicely to localisation. I have a few questions for you both, but I will start with Tog. What support do local organisations need to better engage with international donors?”

“May I wish you, Mr Speaker, the team and colleagues across the House a very merry Christmas? I have been contacted by a number of constituents who feel that they have been sacked by Rockstar, the company behind the game “Grand Theft Auto”, for using their right to organise in the workplace. Along with fellow Edinburgh …”

“May I welcome the strategy, and thank my hon. Friend and the ministerial team for their tireless work in tackling violence against women and girls? To meet the Government’s target of cutting violence in half, we must end the demand for commercial sexual exploitation, whether it be in pornography or prostitution. What s…”

“I strongly welcome this announcement, which, along with the agreement of the Forth green freeport full business case, demonstrates this Government’s commitment to reindustrialising Grangemouth, Leith and the wider Forth area. Can the Minister provide any details on when we will see the £25 million of seed capital attac…”

“Yes—that cross-departmental work and the notions of that.”

“Will the MOD commit to ensuring that the UK supports conflict prevention and peacekeeping missions, integrates gender expertise and includes women mediators?”

“Will you commit today to ensuring that female mediators and gender experts will be represented in any future multinational force to Ukraine?”

“Why did the strategic defence review not mention women, peace and security in the agenda?”

“The Government’s shift towards hard security and military investment has been criticised for neglecting aspects such as conflict resolution and human security. Do you think those are fair criticisms?”

“This question is a follow-up on that, and to Emily’s point as well. How do we measure impact in a way that is meaningful? How do we look at outcomes for women and the impact on women’s lives, from the penholding and persuasion point to the actual delivery on the ground? Is it measured in any way? What are your thoughts…”

“Minister Carns, is the MOD using the uplift in defence spending to further the WPS agenda?”

“Other than other organisations feeding us that data, what do we do as a Government to measure that impact?”

“On Noah’s point, how do we know that it is not cosmetic?”

“Minister Elmore, how do you ensure that gender mainstreaming and considerations of women, peace and security are implemented across the entire FCDO and not only around the teams that expressly focus on it?”

“Again, in terms of cross-departmental working, we have heard that interventions that are successful at mainstreaming are not always leveraged across Government Departments. Why do you think that is?”

“You have both given us quite a lot of reassurance today in terms of your personal commitments, but we have heard some criticisms about token mainstreaming that has to be done out of compliance, levelled at both the MOD and FCDO. How would you respond to those criticisms?”

“Coming back to the restructuring, if the workforce plan is not available, can you be assured that the process is going to be fair and transparent to the workforce?”

“The workforce plan is obviously fundamental to people being consulted, so that they can see how to support colleagues and what that mapping out looks like. Is there an intention to share that with the trade unions and other representatives? If so, when will that be?”

“That being the case, do you have the ability to say that although 28% looks inflated, we need it?”

“You mentioned earlier that there has been a lot of engagement with the staff team. When we spoke to the PCS, they were not saying that—they said they were still waiting to see the workforce plan. When are you planning to share that with the staff reps?”