Speeches by Martin.

“Will the Minister give way?”

“rose—”

“Very few issues in politics, particularly international politics, are black or white, but this is one such issue. The Israeli Government are using collective punishment of the civilian Palestinian population, which is illegal under international law and contravenes the Geneva conventions, to which Israel is party. Does…”

“Have they changed their structures, processes and personnel to facilitate that speeding-up?”

“Looking at those three domains, as well as space and cyber, we do okay in cyber; in space, we significantly underperform; and we have discussed the three physical domains. We have a strategic defence review coming out. Where would you put the balance of investment effort across those five domains?”

“As a final question, you mentioned that we have not been in this situation since the 1790s, when there was something approaching national panic. Why do we not have national panic about this at the moment, and should we?”

“You said something earlier about a wargame and a simulated attack on the United Kingdom. What was the outcome? Did they win?”

“Well, blow me down.”

“I was really struck by your comments on what you called the commercial guy and these conversations that you have with them. I just wonder whether we are recruiting the right kind of person to be the commercial guy. We are bringing in a national armaments director who is the commercial guy or girl in the system. What so…”

“Would you argue that we need to change the fair procurement rules in order to rearm?”

“If the UK had to fight tonight against a peer adversary, what would go out the door and how long would it last?”

“How many ships—three?”

“Would that be 30?”

“We are just exploring this, so 2,000 troops, five ships and 30 aircraft. Is there any point in British history at which we ever had such a poor ability to field a fighting force?”

“How do we compare to other European countries or other structures such as the EU or NATO? Do they also have these problems?”

“How are they bringing in SMEs?”

“In that sense, it is primes with SMEs docking into them, a bit like we have now, but you are saying it is working better there than it is here. Why is that?”

“So it is literally just more juice.”

“Hawkhurst parish council and Southern Water recently came to see me to complain about a number of developers in my constituency who have mixed surface run-off with foul water, which is illegal. Does my hon. Friend agree that, although we of course need big housing developments, if developers are proven to have illegall…”

“The hon. Lady is a great fan of honesty in this Chamber, so I am sure that she will give me an honest answer. One way of understanding Brexit is that it replaced a circular flow of people with a one-way flow of people. Does she think that Brexit increased or decreased migration into this country?”