Speeches by Jones.

“This week, I gave a speech recognising the public’s frustration with our public services. I rejected the Conservative party’s offer of continued cuts and decline, and I rejected the offer of the populist parties, which just want to tear everything down and leave people on their own. Labour will build public services an…”

“I could not agree more. Perhaps with those what3words, more Tory MPs can find their way to the Benches next time.”

“I could not agree more, and I thank my hon. Friend for making such an important case for his constituency, as he did yesterday at Prime Minister’s questions. Whether on defence, nuclear energy, or fixing public services, the SNP have failed Scotland for far too long, and only with Anas Sarwar as leader of the Scottish …”

“I thank my hon. Friend for the great work that she does in Parliament and within the Labour party as a leading voice for rural communities across our country. On Government action, I point her to the rural taskforce, a cross-departmental group looking at how policies taken across Government can have a positive impact i…”

“Mr Speaker, you will know that I take accountability to Parliament very seriously, as do the whole Government. As I said in my first answer, I am happy to take a look at that.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for the brilliant work that she is doing in her constituency with this historic money from Pride in Place, whereby local people get to decide how to spend money on their own communities. As she has alluded to, the Office for the Impact Economy will work with social investors, philanthropists and …”

“As part of the Growth and Living Standards Cabinet Committee, the Cabinet Office co-ordinates Ministers across Government to ensure that we are working as hard as possible to get inflation and costs down and make a real difference to the living standards of the public across the country.”

“There has been no U-turn—[Interruption.] The hon. Member has asked the same question twice and has had the same answer. If he would like, I will write to him in plain English and he can read it a third time.”

“My assessment is that government conflates policy and delivery. That is why we will be promoting people from the frontline into the more senior levels of the senior civil service, to make sure that we understand the customer experience and how citizens expect their services to work more than has been the case in the pa…”

“indicated dissent.”

“That is a very good idea—I have had similar issues in my own constituency. I will make sure that that idea is passed on to the Home Secretary. Police reforms will be coming to the House shortly.”

“I do, and I am happy to take a look at that.”

“In the first instance, I am trying to put in place computers that work. Before we even get to artificial intelligence, we need to build some pretty basic services—services like those that the public are used to using in the private sector, but that are not used for public services because of 14 years of austerity from …”

“I do not know why. I do not know how TBI came up with that number. You would have to ask them. As I say, the OBR was making some assumptions, which it recognised were broad assumptions just for the OBR’s purposes. It rightly identified, to be clear, that this is something that is not yet fully formed, which is why it p…”

“No, because it is a genuine consultation. We will have to buy something, but the reason you could not put a number on it in the Budget is that we have not consulted yet. There is a whole spectrum of options. You could try to build the whole system yourself in Government and totally replicate what the private sector has…”

“The first thing to say is that the OBR number was an assumption that it made based on the public information that was available at the time about what the cost range might be. The Government do not recognise that number because we have not consulted yet. I cannot tell you how much it is going to cost because I do not k…”

“—can do a whole host of other things in the future. It might make it easier for you to claim your entitlement to funded childcare. It may make it easier for you to engage with HMRC and those types of things. The technology enables the application of the digital right-to-work check, which we will do digitally because di…”

“I would say a couple of things. The right-to-work check is already mandatory by law, but the Prime Minister has announced that it will have to be done digitally from 2029 if you are working and getting a new job. That is an application of the technology, but the technology itself—”

“Let us just step back and ask, “What are we delivering?” It is the ability to log into a Government app and prove who you are in order to get better access to certain services.”

“Yes. I do not know what will be in the draft Bill because, as I say, we have not consulted.”