Speeches by Murray.

“Does the Cabinet Office have any role in supporting the performance of different Departments in carrying out that work? What performance standards are Departments held to?”

“Does the Cabinet Office have any role in supporting the performance of different Departments in carrying out that work? What performance standards are Departments held to?”

“Have you anything to add, Clare?”

“Thank you for coming in. Could you explain the operation of the Cabinet Office’s cross-Government co-ordination role in relation to FOIs?”

“Have you anything to add, Clare?”

“BriggsAmasco in my constituency invests heavily in apprenticeships for the next generation of mastic asphalt tradespeople. According to BriggsAmasco, only 11 people in that part of Scotland are fully qualified in this work, and the only route to qualifying is through training programmes in England. The only training pr…”

“I associate myself with the comments made by the hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sorcha Eastwood) and the Secretary of State about the bravery of the PSNI and the delivery driver. This attack serves as a timely reminder that, for a handful of individuals in Northern Ireland, a return to violence is never that far away. G…”

“I thank the Minister not only for the statement, but for his engagement with us over the last six months. A constituent of mine applied for her MyCSP pension quote back in August and finally got the quote last week, but she is still a considerable distance away from actually getting money into her bank account. Will th…”

“Following on from that point, I am the Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch, which is a relatively urban constituency just outside Glasgow. However, we have a couple of rural villages that are not on the gas grid. Therefore, they are using heating oil. The one thing I probably would want to correct is…”

“Following on from that point, I am the Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch, which is a relatively urban constituency just outside Glasgow. However, we have a couple of rural villages that are not on the gas grid. Therefore, they are using heating oil. The one thing I probably would want to correct is…”

“My great grandmother was not a native English speaker; her first language was Scottish Gaelic. In North Lanarkshire, according to the 2022 census, 483 people speak Gaelic in the home, and over 2,000 speak Urdu in the home. The hon. Gentleman suggests that the new clause would make things equal for all, but would it not…”

“We have heard anecdotal evidence of AI being used to draft WPQs. In your view, first, should it be? Secondly, does the system need to adapt to the growth of AI?”

“I hear what the hon. Gentleman says about younger people, but what about the older end of the spectrum? My mother decided that she would give up driving at the age of 84, last February. No longer being behind the wheel of a car was a sound decision for her and probably for most of the people in the local area, but it m…”

“I am glad that you picked up the emerging communities as well. I want to go back to police staff and making sure that we have a level of protection there for officers, particularly if you are looking at analysts or even payroll staff or office cleaners. It is making sure that, across the board, policing and PSNI is loo…”

“Thank you for coming, both. I want to concentrate more on the current workforce and what it looks like. I really valued the morning that we were able to spend at the team PSNI event, and thought that its focus on being one workforce, with no differential between police staff and police officer, was really important. At…”

“We have had quite a bit of evidence to this inquiry around policing. I particularly want to go back to the statement that Deputy Chief Constable Singleton made that a return to 50-50 recruitment would not necessarily be effective in increasing Catholic representation. Can you explain the rationale behind that?”

“That was going to be my next question, so expand on that now, please.”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for St Ives (Andrew George) on securing this timely and appropriate debate. I will tell you a tale of three towns with relatively big populations on the outskirts of Glasgow, of a number of banks, of the actions of one banking group in particular, and of a community fight back. When a ban…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain, and I am planning on being brief today. As a member of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, it gives me great pleasure to contribute to this debate and to the work that the Committee has done—the formal and informal evidence that we took and the people t…”

“Q For the record, I met Dr Marshall and Mr Hughes when they gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on 29 January 2025. I just want to pick up on a number of recommendations they made to that Committee about the need for changes in the Northern Ireland canvass process and several other related matters. …”