Speeches by Martin.

“The shadow Minister has mentioned cafés, and when we have been debating this point previously in the House, I have mentioned Basil’s café in Tunbridge Wells. It now informs me that it is having to put its prices up because of the NIC rises. Does the shadow Minister think that we are going to see a bump in the inflation…”

“Could we bring it to a level commensurate with that in the civilian population, for instance? Could we balance out sexual offences to the same level that they occur in the civilian population?”

“I have a question for General Walker. You are aware of the more than a thousand women who shared stories on Fill Your Boots, which is a social media account about being raped, abused and harassed. I am going to read some of them out here, just to put them on the record. “I used to hold my breath in my room at night whe…”

“Sorry to cut you off, but how many people have been sacked from the Army in the last four years, say, because of allegations like this?”

“Minister, where does the treatment of women sit within wider defence priorities?”

“Sam, what does good look like? We are doing all of this. I accept that we are not going to get rid of it entirely. Any organisation is always going to have problems, but what does good look like?”

“What is the metric? Give me a number—by what date and what level?”

“To what?”

“That is hard to measure, so should we put a number on it? Would you commit to putting a number on it in the Army?”

“It does feel hard to measure though.”

“T9. Kent county council plans to introduce 10,000 on-street car chargers over the next decade. To put that in context, Kent has a population of 1.6 million people. At this rate, Kent will have burned down by the time we all have electric on-street car charging. What can the Secretary of State do to speed this up?”

“On Friday, I visited Kent college in my constituency, which has recently instituted a ban. Phones are collected in the morning and put into pouches, and at the end of the school day, the children can get them back. The school has found benefits for the collection of lost property, which is attached to the cages that ha…”

“Could the shadow Minister describe Liz Truss’s growth test?”

“Russia has abducted at least 19,000 Ukrainian children and transferred them to Russia. They have been told that their parents do not love them, placed in Russian homes and been re-educated. For that despicable crime and others, the International Criminal Court has issued six arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and his g…”

“Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 12 March.”

“My hon. Friend has just said that a lot of sewerage is unadopted. Say it was built in the 1800s by public subscription and nobody has adopted it since. That allows water companies to shrug and say, “Search me, guv’” when there is a problem. Does she think that the Government should by statute or law require that all of…”

“That sounds about right: lessons and structures. Is there a leadership role that the Government can play, particularly Government Ministers such as yourself, or perhaps MPs—I do not want to use the words “educating the public”—in terms of bringing the importance of these issues to the public. Perhaps the fact that the …”

“I would like to zoom in now from the grand strategic to the devolved Administrations. One thing that has struck all of us throughout this inquiry has been, as you mentioned in your introduction, this postcode lottery of the different geographical application. There is something specific about the devolved Administratio…”

“Is there going to be a covenant team within the MOD whose job is to drive that through?”

“Okay, that is great. Thank you very much. I have a very short one on Northern Ireland. There are particular obvious issues in Northern Ireland. Many service personnel do not want to advertise their service, for instance. We have heard that the Northern Ireland Executive do not necessarily prioritise the covenant in the…”