Speeches by Stafford.

“I welcome the Prime Minister’s announcements wholeheartedly, and encourage him to get to 3% as soon as possible. However, we do not just need a monetary value; we need to know how and where the money will be spent, and that will be done through the strategic defence review, which gives assurance to our allies, deterren…”

“The End Frozen Pensions campaign advocates for the restoration of pension payments for UK pensioners living abroad in countries where their pensions are frozen. If they lived in the UK, the triple lock would protect their pensions and they would go up in the relevant increments. However, many UK pensioners living overs…”

“I would not like to claim that I am the Member of Parliament for the whole of Surrey. My Hampshire residents would not be pleased about that. Just last Friday, the Barclays bank in Farnham closed, leaving the whole of my constituency of 101,000 people with just one bank, Santander, and one building society, Nationwide.…”

“In earlier times mobile phone theft was seen as an urban issue, but as has been evidenced by my postbag over the last couple of weeks, it is increasing in our rural towns and villages. What discussions is the Minister having with her colleagues in the Ministry of Justice to ensure that repeat perpetrators of this crime…”

“Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?”

“13. What steps she is taking to tackle phone theft.”

“You have very eloquently described the things that have gone wrong. What does good-quality care, specifically community‑based care and support, look like to you? Do you have any specific examples where you have received good-quality community‑based care and support?”

“I am sure that I would have agreed with whatever point the hon. Lady was about to make. Other hon. Members have mentioned the hypocrisy of this Government telling pensioners prior to the election that they were going to be fine—indeed, they were told that things would get better for them. Instead, things have become ma…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Siobhain. I begin by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Blake Stephenson) for securing this debate, and indeed for his strong speech. It is also always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), or “strapping of Strang…”

“No.”

“I think that everybody across the House wants to see small boat crossings diminish and hopefully conclude entirely. Likewise, I think that most people across the House feel that we need to have a fair, robust and effective way to deal with illegal immigration. This, as I have said previously in the House, is a moral is…”

“Far be it from me to criticise a Member of the other place, especially one with such a distinguished medical career. All I would say gently to the hon. Member is that this is not novel or unique to this country; it is being used in countries across the EU. Likewise, on the Rwanda scheme, which the Government scrapped, …”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“I am sure that the Minister is about to get to this, so I apologise for intervening, but as I raised in my speech, we want to be very clear about how she will measure success based on the Bill. By what metric, and by when, will we be able to judge whether the Government’s policy has worked?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Lewell-Buck, especially because it is my first speech from the Front Bench. I am told that you never forget your first time, but I do hope the Minister is gentle on me. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Immingham (Martin Vickers) for securing this deb…”

“My questions follow on from the ones we have just had. You have talked very eloquently and passionately about the effect that this is going to have on carers. I am afraid I am going to be a bit more hard-nosed in my questions and get down to the money side of it. Have you done any assessment of what is more cost-effect…”

“That is very helpful. Are there any other thoughts? I know there are no studies, but what is your personal and experiential view on that?”

“Anita, do you want to come in on that?”

“I accept that.”

“From the financial perspective, there are various figures, but around £180 billion is contributed by unpaid carers to the economy. I think your suggestion is that, if they do not want to care, we should build up the professional care system in order to replace them. If we did that and we saw a reduction in unpaid carer…”