Speeches by Nokes.

“Order. I am planning to run this statement only until 5.45 pm, so I ask Members and the Chancellor to please help each other by making the questions very short.”

“Order. The question is far too long!”

“Order. I thank the Chancellor for her statement. I appreciate that a lot of Members will be disappointed not to have been able to ask their questions. I will try to prioritise them during the next statement if that is at all possible.”

“That brings us to the Front-Bench contributions. I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“I call Rachael Maskell, who will speak for about 15 minutes.”

“Order. If Members confine their remarks to five or six minutes, we will get everybody in, but I do not intend to introduce a formal time limit yet.”

“With the leave of the House, I will put the Questions on motions 3 to 8 together.”

“I call the shadow Secretary of State.”

“I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“I call the Chair of the Business and Trade Committee.”

“There will be an immediate four-minute time limit.”

“I call Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi to wind up very briefly.”

“I call the shadow Secretary of State.”

“It be remiss of me not to extend an invitation to the Minister to visit St Edward’s school in my constituency of Romsey and Southampton North. Question put and agreed to.”

“I call the shadow Secretary of State.”

“The reasoned amendment in the name of the official Opposition has been selected.”

“As the hon. Member will know, Members themselves are responsible for the accuracy of their words in the Chamber. If a correction is needed, I am sure that one will be forthcoming. For now, she has placed her own view on the record.”

“I thank the hon. Member for giving notice of her point of order. I assume that she also informed the right hon. Member for Wetherby and Easingwold (Sir Alec Shelbrooke) of her intention to refer to him.”

“Can I respectfully suggest to colleagues that by the time they get on to page 2 of their question, that question is too long?”

“Order. Can I please urge Members to make their questions significantly shorter? There is still a huge number of Members seeking to catch my eye. I know we are going to have an exemplary performance from Mark Pritchard, with a very short question, please.”