Speeches by Scrogham.

“You easily accessed the payroll and proved that they are on the payroll. What purpose do you think the MoD had in saying that they hadn’t paid them?”

“Do you think the timescale is realistic?”

“You have mentioned previously that people do not like change. I get the feeling that most are uncomfortable because, when they are told to change, they feel it is because they have done something wrong. How would you change that? If you were trying to reform the MoD and how Defence works, and the people working there d…”

“How do you feel the current programme has built on the reforms from the previous programmes? To what extent do you think it is avoiding the challenges that caused the previous ones to fail?”

“It is an honour to speak today on behalf of the people of Barrow and Furness as we mark this season of remembrance. Each year, we pause to reflect on the courage, duty and sacrifice of those who served, including those who never returned and those who live with the cost of service every day. In Barrow and Furness, reme…”

“3. What recent assessment he has made of the efficiency of the security clearance processes of United Kingdom Security Vetting.”

“The Minister will know how proud we in Barrow are to be building our world-class nuclear submarines. Working in the shipyard requires security clearance, which is provided by UKSV. However, some of my constituents have lost job offers due to the significant delays in receiving clearance. That has a severe impact on tho…”

“As a coastal MP, I was delighted that my constituency was selected for £20 million of pride in place funding. How will those funds benefit coastal communities around the country?”

“What do you think they could do better?”

“Mr Timms?”

“My favourite subject—thank you. We have just touched on some of the issues around delivery, the communities that are building the submarines and the resilience in them. Most of us in this room will know what happened in Barrow when we delayed those decisions and very nearly lost the ability to produce our own nuclear s…”

“On bringing people to live in the area, we went through that model after we had lost 10,000 jobs. Those people did not hang around to wait for another job to pop up when the Government decided, “Oh, actually, we do need these submarines.” We have seen people come into the area but commute back to their home towns. The …”

“I would go directly to that decision about the ICU level 3. If we lose levels 1 and 2, and do not have the services for those families that you want to live here to have their babies here—if we lose maternity and A&E—what does that do to the national endeavour?”

“If they have not fully recognised and harnessed the SMEs in what we have developed in pillar 2, what should they be doing? What would you like to see more of?”

“Confusingly, I am going to talk about the workforce, because what you said earlier about over-recruiting and over-training is something that I felt was unique to Barrow and Furness, with that massive uplift in numbers in the shipyard putting pressure on all the other businesses in the area. For anybody with skillsets i…”

“To go back to the security arrangements, you started with slippage, Steve, or the need to make sure that we start on time and do not slip. We know we have a skills shortage, and we cannot get security clearance for staff. When we are trying to recruit, how much is it going to impact our workforce if we cannot speed up …”

“Moving on to industry engagement, how effective is the Advanced Capabilities Industry Forum, and how do you think Government and industry engagement on AUKUS, both within the UK and across the trilateral, could be improved?”

“Do you think the potential for SMEs to contribute to developing pillar 2 capabilities has been fully recognised?”

“I welcome the pride in place funding announcement and, in particular, the £20 million that has been allocated to Barrow Central ward in Barrow-in-Furness. It is one of the most deprived in the whole country, and it is refreshing to see that under this Labour Government, we are delivering to those who were left behind b…”

“A huge part of Team Barrow is the Government understanding that we need to pull all those different levers to make it deliverable. You hit the nail on the head when you talked about the wider aspect. It is not just about whether the shipyard itself can build the infrastructure and the submarine; it is about bringing in…”