Speeches by Madders.

“You are pretty clear about the value of the offers being made. Are they consistent across the board, or do you find that they can vary quite widely, depending on who is dealing with them at the other end?”

“So you are telling your clients before you even start that this is going to take over a year and that they are going to have to appeal almost certainly?”

“So they make no reference at all to appeals?”

“Can I just come back to you on that point about the appeal offers being much more satisfactory? A judicial analogy would be that once an appeal court has made a decision, the lower court—the HSS—would respond to that and adjust its offers accordingly. Is there any sign of that so far?”

“In terms of the Horizon Shortfall Scheme, your evidence previously has been about delays in providing information and the value of offers being made. Do you feel that in the round things have got better since you last gave evidence to the Committee?”

“So your position essentially is that we have had to do it and there really was not any other way for all these contracts. Could I just come back to the provision that has not been made yet by Fujitsu? Are you in any way discomfited by the fact that it does not appear to have made any accounting for this so far?”

“So you are saying that that would apply to every other contract that has been issued to Fujitsu since—that it is the only way the service, or whatever it is, would be able to continue?”

“So for the hundreds of millions of pounds of Government contracts that have been issued in the last 18 months, you are confident that every single one of those was absolutely necessary to be issued—the only way it could be delivered was through Fujitsu?”

“Moving on to Government contracts, obviously you caught the exchange that we had. My interpretation—this is for you to agree or disagree—is that when Fujitsu is bidding for new contracts that may be of a previously existing service, that is in a sense a new contract. Would you agree with that analysis, or do you think …”

“In terms of the figures, we obviously have the £1.8 billion compensation. I take it that is your starting point for conversations. But will there be other areas of financial compensation that you would look at—such as the millions that must have been spent on lawyers, accountants and IT experts, by all the bodies? Is t…”

“Have you looked at the overall costs to the public purse, not just to Government Departments but to outside agencies, of dealing with all this? Has there been any effort to bring that together at this stage?”

“The Foreign Secretary has set out that it is possible to not shed a tear for Maduro’s removal but be concerned about upholding international law. In that regard, this should not be seen as a green light for Greenland. With that in mind, will the Foreign Secretary confirm to the House that when she spoke to Secretary of…”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is a slightly unusual point of order, but one that it is important to deal with now as it may become more of an issue going forward. Last week, it was claimed I had participated in a Westminster Hall debate on digital ID, where I allegedly not only spoke but voted in favo…”

“I welcome this review and the fact that it is independent. It is really important that this is seen to be above party politics, because we must protect our democracy; it is very clear that it is fragile and under attack from foreign forces. I want to ask the Secretary of State about the terms of reference. Will the rev…”

“Late on Friday, I received notification that the Eastham walk-in centre was to be temporarily closed for four weeks, which appears to be a move in response to the real pressures in the NHS, as I think most of the staff are to be redeployed to the local A&E. Given that previously I and my hon. Friend the Member for …”

“I am glad that there are some Conservative Back Benchers here. Last week they were all somewhere else, but now we are hearing some contributions. I was not in the room when the negotiations took place, but I understand that that was the deal. I am afraid that there have been some wilful misunderstandings on the Conserv…”

“May I first declare my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and donations from the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers trade union, as well as my membership of the GMB and Unite trade unions? I am not sure if we are on a ping or a pong now, but there is a whiff of stubbornness about the fact…”

“T7. I am sure the Department will be aware of the coverage this week of some harrowing stories about the treatment of Vodafone franchisees. Without asking Ministers to comment on specific cases, they will no doubt recognise the power imbalance in that relationship. Will they consider looking at measures to redress that…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend on bringing this debate. I declare for the record my membership of the GMB trade union. I was at that Westminster Hall debate, in which the Minister at the time said that a search had been undertaken. Given what my hon. Friend has said today about the highest levels of Government pushing t…”

“Our constituents will consider it absurd that we spend billions of pounds every year on training doctors who will never work in the NHS. I am pleased that we are grappling with this issue, just like the Secretary of State is grappling with many others. He has shown that by working constructively through the issues, we …”