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Commons Chamber
Public Procurement - Mon 13 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) The procurement policy of a Labour Government would be rooted in getting value for money for every pound - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) Member for Wokingham (Sir John Redwood) rightly pointed out that very often Government procurement policy - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) As the Minister will know, UK Departments currently have to report where steel is procured from. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 09 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) Now, ministerial Departments are publishing the barest details. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) They are not very exciting, but they are reported monthly, and I think other Departments are also able - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Can we have a debate in Government time about why there has been this discrimination by the Government - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I could point to many aspects of the work that has been done in many Departments to support disabled - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) When the threat picture changes, the first duty of Government is to respond, which is why this Government - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Departments must be more resilient in peacetime, and must have in place plans for worst-case scenarios - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) That is not a war footing; that is a slow snail’s pace of procurement. - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) Our procurement has to be smart. - Speech Link
5: Maria Eagle (Lab - Garston and Halewood) Under a future Labour Government, we will drive deep defence procurement reform inside the MOD to reduce - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) the UK Government and the Government of Israel over an FTA. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) universities are privileged among European countries to host some of the finest international relations departments - Speech Link
3: None We are content that the Bill restricts the investment and procurement decisions of universities only - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 02 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Nick Smith (Lab - Blaenau Gwent) His words on how the Government have run down our NHS speak for millions. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the coalition Government - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Do the Government care? - Speech Link
4: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) Will she alert and raise this issue with the relevant Ministers and Departments, and advise me on how - Speech Link


Written Statements
Government Security - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) The Government take the security of the UK’s citizens, systems and establishments extremely seriously - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) Departments before the Prime Minister submits names to His Majesty the King for approval. - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of public sector procurement of digital goods and - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Departments are locked into single-source providers and dependent on legacy systems. - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) It involves the work of many different Government Departments at a national level. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Space Industry - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: David Morris (Con - Morecambe and Lunesdale) Friend agree that the Government are putting more money into the space sector than any other Government - Speech Link
2: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) opportunity.I would not want the Minister to feel that I do not appreciate what his Department and some other Departments - Speech Link
3: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) The space council, in whichever iteration, brings together other Departments in orbit with the Ministry - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence Spending - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Coupled with the reforms that we have introduced to make procurement faster and more effective, it will - Speech Link
2: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) How much is coming from cutting how many civil servants, and in which Departments? - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) The Minister for Defence Procurement has done an outstanding job on a publication that I recommend to - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) The integrated procurement plan, brilliantly created by my hon. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None I hope that the Government will support it. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) That is what the Government are trying to achieve. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) There have been scandals in procurement, of which the infamous PPE contracts are just one example. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Government do wish to have that power. - Speech Link