Speeches by Eagle.
Every Hansard contribution by Maria Eagle this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 141–160 of 292 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “Yes. That is not a bad analogy.” | 7 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “Yes.” | 1 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “Yes. Part of our defence reform programme has been to say we are going to reform the way in which we do procurement. At the moment, we have one size fits all. It is CADMID for everything. It is concept phase, acceptance phase, demonstrator phase, manufacture, in service and disposal. There are lots of assurances, safet…” | 291 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “It will technically start on 1 April. A lot of preparatory work has gone into this. We know what the structure is. We are changing the whole structure of the way in which the Department works. This will all be under the national armaments director. That is being stood up starting 1 April. People have reacted very well.…” | 144 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “You do not mean in the Department; you mean generally in the economy.” | 13 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “A lot is already out there. We do not always know how good some of what is in the Department is. The Department has frequently left it to our prime contractors to deal with supply chains, so our information is not always as good as we might like. Part of the changes that we are making is to engage much more directly wi…” | 190 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “I would not be able to do it. If I cannot do it, what chance does a small firm have of knowing where to go? We have to do much better in that sense. We are also going to be publishing a target for increasing the amount of spend that we have with SMEs by June. On this point, you may have also noticed that the Chancellor…” | 245 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “It is probably institutional inertia and people wanting to carry on doing what they have been doing, or not knowing how to do things differently. With these kinds of cultural changes, there are bound to be issues about empowering people properly to do these things. They will have to shift from where they are to where t…” | 175 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “Yes, the last Government’s document was produced in 2021. It had some good things in it. It moved away from worldwide cheapest price competition, which drives a certain kind of behaviour that is not always helpful in every instance. It did not take into account the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It could not take into…” | 106 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “It is not part of the strategic defence review because, of course, that is being done by external reviewers. The defence industrial strategy is an internal document that we were working on. It will have to tie in with it. It will therefore probably be published at a similar time. I am not saying it will be on the same …” | 102 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “The strategic defence review will set out the threats that we face and the capabilities that we need.” | 18 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “There is in the SDR. If you look at the terms of reference, as I am sure you have, Chair, that is one of the big jobs they are doing.” | 30 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “This is a document that is produced by independent reviewers in accordance with the terms of reference that they have been given. One of the things that they have been asked to do is assess the threats that we face and that we ought to be obtaining the capability to deal with. The defence industrial strategy is about h…” | 99 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “I know some of your previous witnesses have made suggestions about things such as batteries, additive manufacturing and energetics. We have a longlist, if you like. It ended up being 22 items long. We have not got to the stage where we have decided precisely which we think should be included, but we are doing work on w…” | 80 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “We have not made a decision about that yet.” | 9 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “No, but we will make a decision ahead of publishing the document, of course. We are considering what sovereign capabilities ought to be.” | 23 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “There are a lot of links at official level. We all know that I am doing the industrial strategy, which is part of DBT’s broader industrial strategy. Sarah is doing the steel strategy. We do our best to make sure that those tie up, but we are not at the stage yet where Ministers have made decisions about all these thing…” | 78 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “It is the growth board.” | 5 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “You might recall that the manifesto we were elected on specifically mentioned defence industrial strategy. That is not something that any of the other sectors had. We have been turbo-boosted by having that manifesto coverage to make sure we have our own governance within the Department. Yes, it is going to act as a sec…” | 85 |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 727) “We can do that.” | 4 |