Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Alan Strickland

Monday 15th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We will be on questions for a long time at this rate.

[Alan Strickland (Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor) (Lab)]

T6.   Last week, I was proud to meet Filtronic, a leading satellite communications business at NETPark that is part of a growing space cluster. How will Ministers from the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology work together to champion our innovative space industry?

[Luke Pollard]

As the space nerd in the ministerial team, I welcome my hon. Friend’s interest in space. Working with Baroness Lloyd, the Minister in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, we have a real opportunity to renew our space strategy, because the strategy we inherited was out of date and ineffective and was not supporting our industry. We are seeking to support our industry to go further, and I am happy to meet my hon. Friend and other colleagues to discuss space further.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Alan Strickland

Tuesday 26th November 2024 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I call Alan Strickland.

[Alan Strickland (Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor) (Lab)]

I thank the Foreign Secretary for his leadership in tackling and sanctioning those aiding and abetting the illegal invasion of Ukraine, but what more can we do to tackle the wider issues of corruption and kleptocracy that define Putin’s cronies?