Speeches by Jardine.

“I was going to ask you what your priorities were but actually you have answered that.”

“Can I also refer people to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests before I start? I should probably also declare an interest in my first question, as someone who has a knee that does not work because of a sports injury. Fern, could I ask you to update us on the progress of Project ACL, which has been investigatin…”

“That sounds like a huge amount of work. Emma, if I could ask you about the identified systemic gender inequality in sports and exercise research, the sort of thing that Fern has been talking about that we have not really seen. Thinking about other specific gaps in research that have been identified about female health …”

“Tanni, can I just say I interviewed you early in my previous career as a journalist, and I have been watching your career ever since with fascination. It is lovely to meet you. On that very topic, it is something I have often wondered about. In trying to resolve what is a very difficult situation over trans inclusion a…”

“Tanni, can I come to you now and ask what the new taskforce role is going to be in driving research, and maybe trying to change that, and get more women involved?”

“This is a valuable and important debate. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that as well as having new policies, we have to know that they are being implemented properly and fairly, and that therefore it will be necessary to require large employers to publish their policies and data in the same way that they have for gender…”

“I accept the Minister’s comments about Petrofac, but it is a very worrying day not just for the 2,000 workers whose jobs are at stake but for the entire oil economy in north-east Scotland. Two things are missing that we desperately need in Scotland: one is investment in the jobs and skills that we will need for the ren…”

“I welcome the Secretary of State’s remarks and commend her for her conciliary tone and attitude. Yes, safety is paramount for all football supporters, but, as she has said, this is not taking place in a vacuum, and this country is now in a very tense situation. She mentioned a strategy going ahead to make Jewish commun…”

“Notwithstanding the Home Secretary’s reassurances about spads or Ministers not being involved in the advice, does the Minister accept that this matter has reinforced the growing concern in this country about a lack of clarity on our position towards China, the fear of a threat to our energy security from the involvemen…”

“Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I would also like to pay tribute to Ming Campbell, whom I met personally in later years, but whose political influence has hung over my entire adult life. As an 18-year-old student at the University of Glasgow, I heard about these three great figures of British politics who h…”

“Like everyone else in this House, I am sure, I feel enormous relief at the fact that a ceasefire has been achieved, but that can be nothing compared with the relief felt by those Israeli families who thought they would never see their loved ones again and those thousands of children in Gaza who were able to sleep last …”

“T8. Further to the earlier comments about driving test centres, the problem is serious in my constituency. All five of the closest centres have waiting times of 24 weeks —six months—and people are now looking to other parts of Scotland for tests. I appreciate what the Minister said about employing extra people, but can…”

“Does anyone else want to comment?”

“Rebecca, you have already mentioned Scotland, as Sarah said, but I wonder how the 2022 Act and its impact compare with the British Sign Language Act (Scotland) 2015 and its effect in Scotland.”

“To what extent do you think that the Scottish Act facilitated the Contact Scotland BSL service? Have the UK Government considered a similar Britain-wide service?”

“Craig?”

“How confident are you that it would be available again in an emergency situation? Is that enough? Should it not be available all the time, as it is in Scotland?”

“So it was available during covid-19 in England and Wales, but not now?”

“I am pleased to have the Minister’s confirmation that, despite yesterday’s egregious actions by Israel, Qatar will continue its commitment to pursue the peace that we all long for in the middle east. To that end, the Government have said that they would commit to recognising a state of Palestine before the United Natio…”

“Over the summer, a constituent who is a mortgage adviser came to me with concerns about so-called conditional selling by estate agents, where prospective home buyers feel pressurised to take the estate agent’s in-house mortgage rather than risk losing out on a house. This practice breaches the Estate Agents Act 1979. I…”