Speeches by Hatton.

“I definitely would welcome further information for my constituency. The reason why I was raising it today, though, was that it is useful for us, when we look at these quite large districts, to say, “This is one of the worst affected areas when it comes to a shortfall of coaches”. Is it fairly evenly spread, or are ther…”

“That is why it is helpful for us as a Committee, but also more generally.”

“That certainly sounds like the strength, but what I am asking for is to understand what the challenges are and how you are looking to reduce that. Also, could you go into a bit more detail about why turnover is so high when it comes to people not actually sticking around that long as a jobcentre coach?”

“On that point, Sir Peter began to talk about the issues around pay compared to other job opportunities, particularly in certain regions, and then talking about dropouts there during the initial period of starting the role. Are those, as far as you are concerned, the two main reasons why retention can sometimes be a cha…”

“If I might move on slightly, I am also interested in looking at the existing workforce of coaches and how we enable them to be as productive as possible. I know that the Report touches on a number of the significant changes that have been made to reduce wasted time or particularly cumbersome administrative tasks, parti…”

“That is really helpful. It would perhaps be useful for this Committee to better understand whether this is a systematic approach. Is this a strategy that will be implemented by the DWP to look at how we can make our existing coaches more productive. Is this something that is just being picked up on a more ad hoc basis,…”

“Are you confident that, through greater digital resource, particularly AI, we can increase the productivity of coaches, particularly if there is not going to be a huge increase in funding for jobcentres?”

“Too often, sanctions evasion happens via our British overseas territories, particularly through secretive havens such as the British Virgin Islands, and a lack of public ownership records complicates efforts to find out who is involved in sidestepping our sanctions regime. With that in mind, can the Minister set out ho…”

“Q3. Found in my constituency, Durdle Door is one of the most iconic bathing sites in all the country. Last Friday, I was joined at Durdle Door by my hon. Friends the Members for Bournemouth East (Tom Hayes), for Bournemouth West (Jessica Toale) and for Poole (Neil Duncan-Jordan)—and, most importantly, by Ron the local …”

“9. What steps her Department is taking to support the Serious Fraud Office in tackling economic crime.”

“I thank the Solicitor General for her answer. Since their introduction in 2015, deferred prosecution agreements have resulted in the SFO raising some £1.7 billion in fines, yet those DPAs have dried up—the last DPAs that the Serious Fraud Office signed were some four years ago, in 2021. I welcome the SFO’s new strategy…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. The Dorset clean energy super cluster, in my constituency, has proposals for fixed and floating offshore wind, carbon capture and storage, and hydrogen storage. Does my hon. Friend agree that having all that energy generation and storage in one place is a reall…”

“To build on the previous two contributions, I suppose one thing that was clear in the NAO Report, which has been demonstrated again today, is that the conflict in Ukraine has meant that the Department has had to look at much more innovative ways of sourcing military equipment. The way that this has been done broadly se…”

“To go back to an earlier point, how is this going to affect the longer-term way we procure military equipment in this country? This is a once-in-a-generation episode, in respect of how we have had to very quickly and innovatively acquire certain equipment; over the longer term, how will that change the way we do things…”

“On that last point, where we have taken this more innovative approach, how much of it has been done in lock step with our allies? How much of it sits solely with the UK? Have we found that, because of that level of co-operation, which maybe did not exist in the recent past, we are able to start applying it to our own d…”

“I am also a member of a trade union, the GMB, which has local government workers in its membership as well.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) for securing this important and timely debate. Yesterday, a High Court judge rejected a statutory review into Powerfuel’s planning application for a proposed waste incinerator on Portland in my c…”

“It would be useful to understand how we can get to a point where there is far greater transparency. I appreciate what you said about what does and does not fall in the scope of the NAO Report, but there is obviously a significant gap. How do we ensure greater transparency? It is very difficult for Parliament or the pub…”

“That is very helpful. Moving on, one of the things in the NAO Report that I was most struck by was the fact that, at the time of writing, we knew about the condition of only around two thirds of Government buildings. Could you explain in a bit of detail how we have got to the point where we have such a big gap in our k…”

“Clive helpfully started asking questions around this important issue, but it would be helpful if you could, as concisely as possible, make clear to the Committee how much of the newly promised data collection and analysis system has been fully implemented by the Office of Government Property.”