John McNally debates involving the Cabinet Office during the 2019 Parliament

Oral Answers to Questions

John McNally Excerpts
Wednesday 12th October 2022

(1 year, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right that this health research is vitally important. I know that my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary is looking at whether and where the scheme can be expanded, and we will be doing further commissioning rounds to look at that issue.

John McNally Portrait John Mc Nally (Falkirk) (SNP)
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Q3. Prime Minister, you have had a holiday, I think in Birmingham, where you were preaching to the choir—although a few MPs who were there appeared to be singing from a different song sheet. Prime Minister, your Government is now outrageously flirting with disaster, financially and socially. We have just heard that the increase in mortgage repayments will dwarf the rise in heating bills. How will you cope with the resultant increase in homelessness?

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I do not think I am responsible, but I am sure the Prime Minister will take that on board.

Oral Answers to Questions

John McNally Excerpts
Wednesday 20th July 2022

(1 year, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am very grateful to my hon. Friend. There is a fair amount of wood on the Opposition Benches and I think that is why we will prevail at the next general election.

John McNally Portrait John Mc Nally  (Falkirk) (SNP)
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Q10.   Since 2014, the Tory party has had more Prime Ministers than we have had referendums. May I remind the PM of the Smith Commission report, which states:“It is agreed that nothing in this report prevents Scotland becoming an independent country”? Therefore, does the Prime Minister believe in democracy and will he respect the people of Scotland’s right to self-determination?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I think the people of Scotland do not, frankly, want to be talking about constitutional issues and another referendum when the issues before the country—the cost of living, the educational issues we discussed, drugs and crime—are far more pressing.

Oral Answers to Questions

John McNally Excerpts
Wednesday 15th June 2022

(1 year, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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The President of COP26 was asked—
John McNally Portrait John Mc Nally (Falkirk) (SNP)
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1. What recent assessment he has made of the role of the fossil fuel industry in meeting the UK’s COP26 climate commitments.

Chris Stephens Portrait Chris Stephens (Glasgow South West) (SNP)
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3. What recent assessment he has made of the role of the fossil fuel industry in meeting the UK’s COP26 climate commitments.

Alok Sharma Portrait The COP26 President (Alok Sharma)
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The Government are committed to a managed transition from fossil fuels to green energy as we work to deliver on our 2050 net zero commitment.

John McNally Portrait John Mc Nally
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The UN Secretary-General has called investment in new fossil fuel production and power plants “moral and economic madness”. The European Parliament has objected to plans to include gas in the definition of sustainable energy. Surely the COP26 President must agree that the Westminster Government are making a mockery of their presidency at COP. Not only have they increased support for fossil fuels, but their renewables policy is disguising billions in subsidies for biomass. How does he square the Government’s plans with the UK’s COP26 commitment and with the views of his possible future boss?

Alok Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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I am very happy with my current boss, the Prime Minister. If the hon. Gentleman looks at the British energy security strategy, which was published a few weeks ago, it clearly sets out our commitment to a clean energy future. He knows that our stated aim is to decarbonise the electricity sector by 2035, and we stand by that.

Oral Answers to Questions

John McNally Excerpts
Wednesday 8th December 2021

(2 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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My right hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the phenomenon of cyber-flashing. It is one of the issues being addressed by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary in the online harms Bill.

John McNally Portrait John Mc Nally (Falkirk) (SNP)
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Q12. Last year, I asked the Prime Minister what progress had been made on delivering his pledge to buy 4,000 zero-emission buses by 2024. The Budget and the spending review confirmed that the UK Government’s planned investment will not reach that target. As vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the bus and coach industry, I tell him that bus manufacturers have no orders from the ZEBRA—zero emission bus regional areas—scheme. Production lines in Falkirk, Ballymena and Scarborough are desperate to start orders and deserve better. Why are the Government failing to deliver those orders and that pledge?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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We are absolutely committed to delivering 4,000 zero-emission buses and we are also committed to supporting UK bus manufacturing.

Oral Answers to Questions

John McNally Excerpts
Wednesday 7th July 2021

(2 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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The Prime Minister was asked—
John McNally Portrait John Mc Nally (Falkirk) (SNP)
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If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 7 July.

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister (Boris Johnson)
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Today marks the 16th anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings. We remember the 52 innocent people who lost their lives and those who were injured, and pay tribute to the city’s emergency services for their heroic response.

I am sure the whole House will wish to join me in sending condolences to the family and friends of Sislin Fay Allen, who died earlier this week. She was the UK’s first black female police officer, and she served in the Metropolitan police.

I am sure colleagues will also want to join me in wishing the England football team the best of luck for tonight’s semi-final against Denmark.

This morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.

John McNally Portrait John Mc Nally
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Prime Minister, we hear a great deal in this place about the rule of law and injustice. Can the Prime Minister tell me what he is going to do about the injustice that my constituents in Falkirk, and indeed families up and down the UK, are facing every day because of the retrospective loan charge, which is fast turning into the next Post Office scandal? The hounding by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs—clearly out of control, accountable to no one—has managed to hoodwink and mislead his own Treasury Ministers and now, according to the head of HMRC, the retrospective loan charge appears to be without any legal basis or justification. Therefore, will the Prime Minister accept that this matter needs further and immediate investigation?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am acutely aware, as I think all colleagues are around the House, of the pain suffered by those who entered into loan charge schemes. I think, alas, that they were misguided to do so, but I think that the line taken by the Treasury, I am afraid, is right on this.

Civil Service Appointments

John McNally Excerpts
Tuesday 30th June 2020

(3 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Urgent Questions are proposed each morning by backbench MPs, and up to two may be selected each day by the Speaker. Chosen Urgent Questions are announced 30 minutes before Parliament sits each day.

Each Urgent Question requires a Government Minister to give a response on the debate topic.

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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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The Secret Intelligence Service and GCHQ are answerable to the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, and MI5 to the Home Secretary, and the National Security Adviser is, and always has been, accountable to the Prime Minister of the day.

John McNally Portrait John Mc Nally (Falkirk) (SNP) [V]
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Could the Minister try a wee bit harder to explain to everyone watching why Sir Simon McDonald, Sir Philip Rutnam, Sir Kim Darroch and now Sir Mark Sedwill have been hung out to dry by the Government, when a man with great power but no responsibility, who can flout laws, and who is openly laughed at and disbelieved by the Great British public still has a job?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I am not sure to whom the hon. Gentleman is referring—[Interruption.] I’m not, I’m not—I’m a simple soul. I am not sure to whom he was referring in the second part of his question, but all those he mentioned are distinguished public servants. In particular, I would like to place on the record my thanks to Sir Simon McDonald for the excellent work he has done, and is still doing, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and to Sir Kim Darroch, who was a very distinguished National Security Adviser as well as a great ambassador to the United States.