Speeches by Mundell.

“In that context, do you have clarity on what is happening in the US? This Committee was in the US. We met the congressional committee at a point when the negotiation on the US budget was still ongoing between the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House. There was then the lockdown. There was then, as I…”

“I would have thought it would have been the Home Office, in terms of some of the core parts that go right across the United Kingdom, but obviously MHCLG, in its latest iteration, is a relevant Department. DCMS has an important role because the wedding industry—I don’t think it is unfair to use that term—is a significan…”

“Nobody is a greater champion than my good self of the UK Government in Scotland, having driven through the proposals for Queen Elizabeth House, but it seems to me that it would have been better for some of that thinking to be done earlier in the process, when the decisions were being made about a hub in west central Sc…”

“I declare my first interest, in that I am the MP for Gretna Green, which still considers itself to be the wedding capital of Europe, and I would think it proportionately is—there are weddings every day in Gretna and people come from all over the United Kingdom and afar. The purpose of the debate is actually to have a d…”

“Just to clarify, you said that you are looking to upgrade the secure functions to allow senior staff to operate. Was that a commitment to do that? What would determine whether you did it? Might it be something structural—the building could not be adapted to do it, for example—or that you did not want to put those parti…”

“Apologies for having to leave to go out and vote on whether there should be a customs union with the EU. [Interruption.] Yes, I felt exactly the same. I want to ask about Abercrombie House and its future. As Nick will know, we previously had a discussion at this Committee about Abercrombie House, only for it—not delibe…”

“I was pleased to welcome pupils from Annan academy in my constituency to Parliament last week and to hear directly from those young people that many of them had actively participated in a consultation by SNP-led Dumfries and Galloway council to voice their opposition to an ill-thought-out proposal to cut free musical i…”

“Camilla, can I ask you about Nigeria’s capacity to meet the cost of its own humanitarian and development needs? Although there is great division in the country in wealth, it is a lower to middle-income country.”

“Thank you; we all have to work with personalities.”

“Thank you; we all have to work with personalities.”

“Arjun, do you hold out any hope that the processes that Thierno and Camilla just spoke about could be simplified, streamlined or made more effective within a foreseeable period?”

“Arjun, do you hold out any hope that the processes that Thierno and Camilla just spoke about could be simplified, streamlined or made more effective within a foreseeable period?”

“Is that your experience as well, Thierno?”

“Mary, can you give us a summary of malnutrition across Nigeria?”

“Camilla, you answered the question I was going to ask you about institutional capacity, but one thing to draw out, which maybe has not come across as much in the evidence today as we discovered when we were in Nigeria, is the complex relationship between the federal Government, the governors and the individual states. …”

“Just to clarify whether I am right in what I heard you say—this aligns with evidence that we heard when we were in Nigeria—it is the lack of food and the difficulties with farming conditions that drive a lot of people into the arms of the terrorist organisations.”

“Andrew, what is your assessment of the human and societal consequences if nutrition needs are not met?”

“You have touched on it already, but what impact do you feel the cuts in funding internationally have had?”

“Just to be clear, you are saying that there were forces that did not want the facts to be put into the public domain.”

“Mary, can you give us a summary of malnutrition across Nigeria?”