Speeches by Rankin.

“The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point about Leonard, which builds helicopters in his constituency, and I am sure the Minister has heard his pointed remarks. Parties of both colours have pledged to increase defence spending. This Labour Government have committed to an uplift of 3% in the next Parliament, but when wi…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of environmental, social and governance requirements on the defence industry. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank the Minister and hon. Members for making time to attend what I hope will be a consequential debate. Last week, we al…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr Dillon) for securing this important debate and for his wider efforts on this issue, including his private Member’s Bill and his early-day motion, which 44 Members from right across the House supported. That is the gold standard for how to champion an issue in Parliament, and cred…”

“You were both understandably diplomatic, but there was implied criticism of at least the effect on public sentiment of the Scottish Government’s posturing on the Israeli Government’s robust response to Hamas’s 7 October pogroms. I want to ask about broader public perception. Babcock, Thales and others have said that po…”

“I was tempting you.”

“I am afraid you paint quite a depressing picture there. Can I just say, at least for my part, how sorry I am to hear that? The defence industry is the core of defending the democratic values that the west needs. For anyone who wants to get on their high horse about this stuff, you guys are on the frontline, so thank yo…”

“This is a comment rather than a question, but that is a point we should make to Treasury. You can understand why these things come in dribs and drabs but, if you want to drive the cost per bolt of these things down and drive productivity, this seems to me to be a much more sensible approach, not just for skills, but fo…”

“On the same theme, on our visits and in our oral and written evidence, the pipeline issue often comes up. I think particularly of the comment from the Society of Maritime Industries that the industry needs “predictable pipeline visibility”. That is key to attracting and retaining skilled workers. Does the industry at t…”

“I intend to get to the implications of plan 2 loans—both the freeze in the threshold for repayment and the freezing of the interest rates in a falling-interest-rates environment. I think the hon. Gentleman will find in the Budget papers that that raises about as much money as the mansion tax does, for example. I think …”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of the Autumn Budget 2025 on graduates. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I thank the Minister for taking time from his busy schedule to attend the debate today. I will start by painting a picture of two graduates at two different poin…”

“My right hon. Friend makes a good case for Conservative economics. Does he agree that the Government have made some wrong-footed changes to non-dom status in their two years in office so far, and that they will damage investment and growth? Not only is that a development that Conservative Members do not want to see, bu…”

“I am not sure that I agree 100% with the hon. Member. I suspect that, in this country, we are sending too many people to university, and we should have a higher focus on higher quality courses and courses that add economic value, while investing some of the money saved in apprenticeships. But I take the hon. Member’s p…”

“Having 1 million young people not in work, education or training and 2.8 million people out of work on long-term sickness benefits is both a financial catastrophe and a moral failure. The Prime Minister has rightly said that it is his moral mission to get young people into work, but how does the Minister square that wi…”

“4. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the autumn Budget 2025 on levels of incentives to work.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Spelthorne (Lincoln Jopp), and my constituency neighbour, for securing this important debate. Without it, I doubt that I would have the chance to raise in Parliament an issue that is extremely important to …”

“Q10. The Prime Minister has expressed “sincere regret” for appointing David Kogan as Independent Football Regulator. Will he now put on record the full amount that Mr Kogan has donated to his leadership campaign and his party, any hospitality he has received, and whether he declared these interests before appointing hi…”

“That has changed significantly in the last few years, has it not?”

“Yes, thank you Madam Chairman. Prior to being a Member of Parliament I was involved in long-term commodities trading and I hold equities from that period of time in Pexapark AG, which is a Swiss advisory company that advises IPPs and funds on its PPA strategies. I also have a small consultancy business called Crocus an…”

“With the CFD, obviously the way that works is we socialise the market price risk of energy on to the billpayer. We take the profile risk, cannibalisation risk and credit risk, so the only thing left on the route to market for these large-scale renewables that sits with the developer is the balancing risk. As we build o…”

“You have come in as development capital to help catalyse projects that might not otherwise happen, and one of your missions is to create high-quality jobs. In that instance—let us take Pentland as an example—in your investment, do you try to ensure that any of those clean energy jobs are based in the UK or Scotland? As…”