Speeches by Murray.

“Within section 8, you also make reference to the difficulty in processing evidence from the MOD. What improvements should be made to the way it manages and catalogues its documents?”

“Picking up on what you said earlier, Steven, particularly about the Belfast city deal, both city and growth deals, by their very nature, require very mature partnerships and doing what you can to get out of siloed ways of working. From that, because it is expected that sometimes partners will take a step back because o…”

“Relationship building takes time, and you need to do that before you get the rest of it done.”

“I know that your area is not quite so far developed in that.”

“Thank you, Mr Speaker; I wish you and your staff a very merry Christmas. Yesterday, my constituent Liz Buchanan stood down after 15 years as chairperson of Cumbernauld Seniors Club. During Liz’s tenure, the club has become a safe place to meet friends, chat, have a hot meal and enjoy countless activities and celebratio…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Luke Murphy) on securing this timely and welcome debate and, to be honest, on allowing us to reread and rewatch the great works of Jane Austen, all on the grounds of pure research. I begin by quoting Jane herself from “Persuasion”: “I hate to hear you talk about…”

“I pay tribute to all the Ministers across all the Departments who have worked together to get this over the line. I also pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk (Euan Stainbank) for not giving up and making sure that it happened. Grangemouth matters to all of us; we all have constituents who work in the co…”

“This week’s exhibition in the Upper Waiting Hall is a memorial quilt produced my members of the South East Fermanagh Foundation. It is a very moving way to remember the innocent victims of terrorism. The dates on the quilt panels remind us of how long the families have been fighting for justice. Can I ask the Secretary…”

“There has been more than one week during my time in this place where every piece of casework that has come to my office has had a violence against women and girls component to it. The complexity of this issue cannot be underestimated. I do not want to pre-empt the launch of the strategy, which is eagerly awaited by all…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North (Martin Rhodes) for securing this debate. Clearly, fair trade matters, and it does to all of us. I will spend a little time outlining why it matters so much to me and where I first came across it. Too often…”

“That is effectively my question to you.”

“I just want to expand a bit on that. We are very clear that we are talking purely about police officers. However, police officers do not make up the whole police workforce. Police staff are just as important as police officers. Looking at the workforce composition statistics, the 30% statistic would be wonderful if it …”

“Building on that, what are the main security threats facing Northern Ireland today? How have they evolved over the lifetime of the PSNI?”

“5. What progress she has made on the financial inclusion strategy. [R]”

“I welcome the Minister’s response. I am a long-standing member of the NHS credit union, which is one of the credit unions affected by the withdrawal of the family protection plan by CMutual on 30 November. Policyholders over the age of 70 who have paid premiums well in excess of what they would have expected to have pa…”

“I commend the right hon. Member for Belfast East (Gavin Robinson) for securing the urgent question. We have talked about the experiences of the Kenova families in terms of having confidence in the process, and we recognise the complexity of the 28 years of the troubles. The Secretary of State has highlighted how the la…”

“Next week marks 70 years since Cumbernauld was designated a new town on 9 December 1955. It was part of a visionary programme that reshaped communities across Scotland and the UK. While we rightly celebrate that legacy of ambition and innovation, many new towns, including my own, face significant challenges, from agein…”

“12. What recent progress he has made on improving the relationship between the Government and the devolved Administrations.”

“Does the Minister agree that in my constituency, where people are struggling to access healthcare, it is vital that the SNP Government make effective use of the recent funding uplift to finally deliver the long-promised elective treatment and diagnostic centre in Cumbernauld, so that we can cut waiting lists and get my…”

“Again, I thank my hon. Friend for the work done on the report. Building on the question from the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), does the report highlight the importance of ensuring that we have ECHR-compliant processes in place if we want to ensure that there is full buy-in …”