Speeches by Anderson.

“I am grateful to my hon. Friend for celebrating such a great Labour achievement, led by a great Labour woman, Baroness Jennie Lee. Will he join me in congratulating the Open University and underlining its importance for people like me? I was looking after four children and was able to do a master’s at the Open Universi…”

“I join all hon. Members and the Secretary of State in paying tribute to the Royal Marines, as we are proud to host the Royal Marine reserves in my constituency. I welcome the Secretary of State to his place, and his assurance that we have not missed a beat in our support for Ukraine. I have been to Ukraine with many ho…”

“Lord Evans, I want to look at HALO Trust’s experience of programmes to reduce land mines. I have seen that for myself with MAG in Lebanon. We got close to reducing them, but then the funding was reduced. You will have seen it in Syria with HALO. Could you say a bit more about the risk when local networks and all that t…”

“On Sudan, do you know how much we fund programmes there? Has that stayed the same, gone up or gone down?”

“Lord McConnell, on the balance between hard security, peacebuilding, conflict prevention and civil society funding, does the increased investment in hard security that is currently happening produce better national security outcomes over the medium to long term in your experience? How can we quantify that to judge whet…”

“I was chair of an all-party parliamentary group for conflict prevention, the APPG on prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity, and I worked very closely with you, Dr Ferguson, on that. I have a couple of more quick-fire questions about the internal workings of the FCDO and where we are left now. In that all-p…”

“To be clear, Dr Ferguson, you are saying that you do not think that there is enough ministerial oversight into the restructuring?”

“If we do not have the data about that with current conflicts, we must have the data about it from previous conflicts where we can see an amount of funding. In hindsight, we have the luxury of being able to say—”

“Social media companies have been conducting a social experiment on our children for too long and parents have been left trying to bear the burden. I thank the Minister very much for many meetings over many months. Can he tell us the criteria for deciding which platforms are going to be deemed safe or unsafe when determ…”

“My constituents write to me constantly about the failings of Thames Water—bills going up, but pollution staying the same—and I am glad the Minister is taking a grip of the matter through the taskforce. It is World Oceans Day, and this morning I met several groups that are campaigning on and providing data about the imp…”

“I start, as I must, with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones) for raising the testimony of Lisa Phillips and naming one of Epstein’s victims. Those victims have names, they may be listening to the debate and they will find this whole process retraumatising…”

“2. What assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of the Supreme Court judgment in the Dillon case [2026] UKSC 15.”

“The Supreme Court found wholly in the Government’s favour. Does the Secretary of State agree that the Government now have a responsibility to put in place legislation that delivers justice for victims and survivors of the troubles, who are both civilians and veterans, and that upholds the special duty of care to vetera…”

“My right hon. Friend has made the point very well. There are minority groups. There are people who do not know whether what they are worried about in respect of their past will be an issue, and they will not share that. They will not even go for the developed vetting, which means that they cannot rise within the Foreig…”

“I thank the right hon. Member for his comment about the ISC. I will continue to take advice from that vetting process: it needs to be even more hermetically sealed. We need to take real care over this. Any over-sharing will have an effect on everyone who is asked to sit down and give the frankest and most private infor…”

“I thank the right hon. Member for that pushback, but, having spoken to those who carry out the vetting process, I know that understanding that anything you say may be disclosed to a parliamentary Committee is itself a hugely chilling factor. Vetting only works if civil servants can give the frankest, most professional …”

“I absolutely agree. My hon. Friend talked about the inquiry during her speech, and I thought exactly that: should there not be one so that, with all this money being spent, we can look at the victims and the necessary justice? In my constituency, I am working the victims of the PIP breast implant scandal. Some 47,000 w…”

“I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Foreign affairs money is being spent on this, when it could have been spent on humanitarian aid or ensuring that our systems and processes are supporting those worldwide to make sure that we are all safer. The Intelligence and Secu…”

“My hon. Friend raises another good point. The rules around redactions were mentioned earlier, and we should ensure that they are consistent between inquiries. We can learn many things from this, and we should build in those things for the future. I will make three points—only three. First, we need scope and limits. Mot…”

“This Humble Address has been worked on by Ministers and civil servants very diligently, independently and scrupulously, but that has led to some huge costs, which I am going to outline. Maybe that is a lesson that should be learned for future Humble Addresses. As the Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Bristo…”