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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThank you for your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall ask a policy question. The Government recently awarded a contract for a supercomputer to Lenovo, a China-headquartered…25 Apr 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyI thank the Deputy Prime Minister for his statement, and for advance sight of it. It is a statement about which there has been significant briefing in the press over the past…25 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the Minister has seen, many questions have been asked today on the infected blood scandal. Will he confirm that it is no part of the Government’s decision-making process on the…29 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsBaroness Mone and her husband made a £60 million profit on a £200 million contract for personal protective equipment, much of which the NHS deemed unusable. The couple,…29 Feb 2024HANSARDExtreme Weather Events: Resilience(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office if he will make a statement on the UK’s resilience to recent extreme weather events, including Storm Isha…24 Jan 2024HANSARDExtreme Weather Events: ResilienceI thank the Minister for his response. Recent days have seen the UK battered by two severe storms, first Storm Isha and then Storm Jocelyn—the 10th named storm of this winter. Liz…24 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis week, Gareth Davies, the head of the National Audit Office, said that Ministers could save up to £20 billion a year of taxpayers’ money by modernising IT systems, tackling…18 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI echo the condolences that have been given to the family of Tony Lloyd. Further to the question about flooding, yesterday the Public Accounts Committee said that over 200,000…18 Jan 2024HANSARDRisk and Resilience: Annual StatementI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. He is right that resilience is a critical function for the Government, local government, public services,…04 Dec 2023HANSARDForeign Secretary: Declarations of InterestI want to ask about an angle of the matter mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh). The Foreign Secretary received fulsome praise from…23 Nov 2023HANSARDForeign Secretary: Declarations of InterestI welcome my old friend and sparring partner, the right hon. Member for Salisbury (John Glen), to his post. Questions have been raised about whether all benefits in kind received…23 Nov 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI begin by associating myself with the Secretary of State’s comments on marking the anniversary of the death of the late Queen. The responsibilities of the Cabinet Office include…07 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the Secretary of State. I can only say to him that the hair may go but the skin remains the same, so in solidarity I wish him well in the current heat. It is reported that…07 Sept 2023HANSARD Public Sector PayI thank the Chief Secretary to the Treasury for the advance copy of his statement. Let me begin by praising the efforts of our NHS staff, teachers, police officers and members of…13 Jul 2023HANSARDMortgage and Rental CostsI thank everyone who has contributed to this afternoon’s debate. I cannot help noticing that the vast majority of them are Opposition Members, so I thank my hon. Friends the…27 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage and Rental CostsWe are not going to join the chorus of Government Members attacking the Bank of England. I thought the hon. Gentleman was rising to raise the issue of the 15,000 households in his…27 Jun 2023HANSARDGrowth Plan of 23 September 2022 and Cost of MortgagesBack to 2023. This is a real crisis, affecting real people as a result of the real decisions of the Minister’s Government. Figures out today show that the average UK tenant is…20 Jun 2023HANSARDGrowth Plan of 23 September 2022 and Cost of MortgagesThe only thing that grew as a result of what the Government did last September was people’s mortgage payments. Two-year fixed rates are now more than 6%, and payments for…20 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage Market(Urgent Question) : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of developments in the mortgage market in recent days.13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketThe UK’s homeowners are under increasing financial stress, with two-year fixed rates at 5.86%—up by over 0.5% in just a month—products being withdrawn, and the Resolution…13 Jun 2023