Speeches by Twigg.

“That will involve the families federations at some point.”

“I want to come back to an earlier question about the Armed Forces continuous attitude survey, which was mentioned briefly. The survey says: “Of those who have experienced bullying, harassment or discrimination in the last 12 months, around one in seven made a formal written complaint about their experience…This is unch…”

“You describe what you are doing, which is interesting, but my question was specifically about what proof you have that confidence has increased and is increasing in service complaints.”

“What about you, General Walker?”

“I was in Latvia at the weekend, where they very much know what the threat is from Putin and the Russians. I thank the Minister for his statement and the helpful way in which this has been described in public. It is clear that we need to do a lot more to explain to the British public what the threat is from the Russians…”

“I thank the Prime Minister for all his efforts, not least over the past few days. Although many of us have a difference of opinion with President Trump about the way he talks and the actions he is taking in terms of Iran—those are obviously things that we on the Labour Benches do not agree with—I am a little concerned …”

“Can you tell us a bit about that? We are not getting that side at the moment; we hear a lot about what the problems are, which no one is denying.”

“It is interesting; this could just be a whole session of attacking and criticising the MoD—and that it is not something that we do very often, as you know. But we are probably all on the same page in terms of the concern and criticism about the delay. Obviously, part of it is that the longer it goes on, the more diffic…”

“Following on from that, does the capacity exist within the industry to do this without causing inflation? You touched on defence inflation before, in terms of the cost of minerals and so on. With its current capacity, how can the industry meet demand without seeing defence inflation, while also ensuring that the taxpay…”

“Do you have any idea what the number of job losses or lack of opportunities to create jobs has been because of this delay at the moment? You have mentioned examples. Has there been any study or survey about that?”

“So you are already setting the scene for when the DIP is produced? We have some certainty—or some clear pathway—that it is already going to cost more than it would have last year, regardless of the other increases in energy costs and so forth, because the capacity is not there as it was. People have gone out of busines…”

“I have a quick question. A growing number of people feel that we need to transition to a war footing, or certainly that we must be prepared to be able to scale up much more quickly following on from the DIP. But to do that, we would have to bring a lot of people into the industry quickly to up our production rate. I wa…”

“Will the capacity be there when the DIP is produced, or do you have major capacity problems?”

“The Secretary of State is right to draw to attention to the fact that when he became Secretary of State, our armed forces were underfunded and very stretched. He and his team and the Government have done much to improve that, including bringing about additional funding for the armed forces. However, I am concerned that…”

“Order. Members can see that the debate is heavily subscribed, so it will be difficult to get every Member in. I am going to impose a two-minute limit to start. It is not in my gift to stop this, but if Members take interventions, that may further restrict the time that people have to speak. That is in your gift.”

“I think that the Member has finished speaking.”

“Order. Unfortunately, we are now going to have to move to a time limit of a minute and a half. I am still trying to get everybody in.”

“Order.”

“Order.”

“Order. I reiterate that there is a strict two-minute time limit on speeches.”