Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Lincoln Jopp Excerpts
Thursday 5th June 2025

(3 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Pat McFadden Portrait Pat McFadden
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Let me echo the right hon. Member’s words in paying tribute to the work that our intelligence and security agencies do in keeping us all safe every day. We discussed the Committee earlier in these questions. The Government have approved an uplift in resources for the Committee, and we are working closely with it on the best operating model for doing its job as effectively as possible.

Lincoln Jopp Portrait Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)
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Mr Speaker,

“The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP”—

so said the controversial Ulster rap band who remain on the bill at Glastonbury. Given that is the case, can the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster reassure the House that no Cabinet Office Ministers will be attending Glastonbury this year?

Pat McFadden Portrait Pat McFadden
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I will not be going to Glastonbury, but I am very much looking forward to seeing Bruce Springsteen at Anfield stadium on Saturday night.