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Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) It requires sound economic management and, above all, an understanding that an investment in deterrence - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) We have now said that we know conditions will allow because of the management of the economy. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) In the coming decades, we risk skill pinch points in critical areas of defence. - Speech Link
4: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) Cultural change is very difficult in a large organisation, and previous defence reforms have disappeared - Speech Link
5: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) run contrary to its management until very recently by a right hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bank of England (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 02 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Gadhia (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Like a conventional private sector board, we do not possess hire-and-fire powers over senior management - Speech Link
2: Lord Blackwell (Con - Life peer) Government and Parliament exercise power over many other important policy areas, including national defence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) into the complexity of the financial risk. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Members—several Front-Bench Members—voted to scrap our deterrent and are refusing to match our baseline on defence - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) In stark contrast to London, in Essex, our brilliant police, fire and crime commissioner Roger Hirst - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We should put on record our thanks to that fantastic organisation, which has done so much to strip out - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Lady referred to—UNRWA has for a long time been a very financially fragile organisation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) commissioner’s instinct was that perhaps one should hold police and crime commissioners’ feet to the fire - Speech Link
2: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) from putting in funding applications unless they form a coalition, which can be burdensome for a small organisation - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) patient identifier in the UK’s health and social care system, and are vital for clinical safety, record management - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Access to Redress Schemes - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) That is partly because when a new scandal emerges, the organisation responsible is often the organisation - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) initiatives to which they have drawn attention.There is now—this is exciting news, Madam Deputy Speaker—a new risk - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) I told the Minister for Defence People that, if he thinks he is going to get away with £50 million, it - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) The NAO briefing stressed the importance of the right governance and project management, committing sufficient - Speech Link
5: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) serious consideration of its findings and recommendations, and I know that he will hold our feet to the fire - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We cannot risk the document becoming outdated and losing credibility with industry. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If any organisation chooses to provide its services on a digital basis only, that is up to that organisation - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) They also help streamline supply chain management and allow business to scale and trade globally”. - Speech Link
4: None fundamental freedoms, relevant legislation, both general and sectoral, including concerning public security, defence - Speech Link
5: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) not know but I will find out and advise noble Lords.His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) as a person but as a role, to ensure the safe, ethical and unbiased deployment of AI in her or his organisation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) it would be better to deal with AI sector by sector—in education, the delivery of public services, defence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Moyo (Con - Life peer) and mitigation become the cultural bedrock of the organisation. - Speech Link
4: Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Con - Excepted Hereditary) in AI and tech companies.A year ago, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, cried “fire - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) , HC 26, the Eighth Report of the Committee of Public Accounts, Improving Defence Inventory Management - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) , HC 26, the Eighth Report of the Committee of Public Accounts, Improving Defence Inventory Management - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) There is also sometimes a risk to our own sovereign capability and the longevity of some of our defence - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) If we cannot co-ordinate defence spending in a clear manner, we risk weakening the perception of our - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None That is not our fault; it is the Government’s management of their own timetable. - Speech Link
2: None reputation is, and the proof of that is the Prime Minister of Pakistan citing the Rwanda treaty in defence - Speech Link
3: Lord Lipsey (Lab - Life peer) suspicion that it is just a device by No. 10 in a desperate attempt to pull a lost election out of the fire - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) on Rwanda dated 12 December 2023 and said:“The Ibrahim Index of African Governance, an independent organisation - Speech Link
5: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) The only defence they have is to turn around and blame us for blocking it, when we have said all along - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) its one and only identifiable policy—investing £28 billion in renewable energy—and throwing it on the fire - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) industries.Our public services play a vital role in the life of our nation, schools, council, police and fire - Speech Link
3: Dan Carden (Lab - Liverpool, Walton) New management alone will not cut it. - Speech Link
4: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) This is the result of only one organisation and one group of people: it is the result of 14 years of - Speech Link
5: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I raised this issue recently with the Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire. - Speech Link