Speeches by Murray.

“How much?”

“It is ready to invest, but do you actually reinvest it? Has that happened so far?”

“Very briefly, Mr Lakey, while we are on profits, the founder of Clearsprings recently entered the Sunday Times rich list because the profits from his fortune increased by 35%, which is an analogous number to the increase we have seen in asylum contracts. Are those two facts related?”

“I think you are saying that from your perspective the system works pretty well, but you can understand why politicians think otherwise. Do you two agree with that analysis? Do you think the system’s working relatively well from your perspective?”

“When discussing the asylum accommodation system, the Prime Minister called it “Eye-wateringly expensive,” and the Home Secretary called it an “Appalling waste of taxpayers’ money.” The previous Prime Minister called it “Unacceptable,” and the Leader of the Opposition said, “The whole system is broken.” Those four peopl…”

“Can I just draw everyone’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and the support that my office receives from the Refugee and Migration Partnership? Thank you, Chair, for keeping us correct. The statistics tell us that in 2020 the average cost was £17,000 per asylum seeker per year to th…”

“Let us just focus on those criteria for a second. This contract was started in 2019, and costs have obviously gone up hugely since then. Quite a lot of things happened in the interim that you have been using to justify those cost increases: a pandemic, Government legislation, access to accommodation, multiple reasons. …”

“But retrospectively, have they been added?”

“I have a final question. Are there any safeguarding KPIs?”

“So that is not part of the contract?”

“In the pandemic, young people were among the least at risk, but they gave up so much of their lives to protect those who were at risk. No generation has made such a sacrifice for another since the war, but they have been badly let down: across the UK, one in eight are not in employment, education or training, and it is…”

“The public have been waiting for 15 years to hear a Government set out a serious strategy to get a grip on the legal migration system so that it works for public confidence, for the economy and for migrants themselves. I welcome the measures that the Home Secretary has announced in relation to the health and social car…”

“It is an honour to follow that eloquent and impassioned maiden speech by our new colleague, the hon. Member for Runcorn and Helsby (Sarah Pochin). I can tell that we will be hearing a lot more from her in this House, and while I am sure that her colleagues are pleased to have their number back up to five, I think we ca…”

“Will the right hon. Member give way?”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that we have significant problems in this country as the system to address modern slavery has degraded? Will she join me in pushing for the national referral mechanism to be reviewed, as the Government promised, to tackle exactly what she is talking about?”

“3. What steps she is taking to help support young people not in education, employment or training.”

“The beautiful beaches of my constituency are marred by sewage-related debris. In Scotland, under the SNP, we do not even properly monitor sewage overflows. Meanwhile, in England, the Labour Government are making great strides to improve water quality—how I wish we had that in Scotland. Will the Secretary of State commi…”

“2. What discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on best practice on monitoring sewage overflows.”

“Thank you very much for coming and for the amazing work that you do. Leyla, I want to focus on your final point, which is how we measure the effectiveness of projects and measure the outcomes of what you do. You know that the Government have the ambition for a violence against women and girls strategy, which is a great…”

“Your provider is Serco?”