Speeches by Gilmour.
Every Hansard contribution by Rachel Gilmour this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 61–80 of 409 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 891) “That is good for the next generation, is it not? They are the ones who have it.” | 17 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 891) “It is interesting that Blaise Metreweli, the new head of MI6, said almost exactly the same thing today about computer skills and digital skills. It is obviously not just the civil service.” | 32 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 891) “That is good. Presumably, it will also be able to identify where the skills gap is weakest and where you are using consultants, and therefore where you can up the internal skills and reduce the external expenditure on these very expensive consultants.” | 42 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 891) “At the beginning you gave us some what I think is quite good news, if it comes off, about workforce planning. When will you be able to publish the strategic workforce plan for the civil service? I appreciate that is an absolutely enormous job. Given the amount of money involved on the consultant side and the amount of …” | 83 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 891) “To give you my background, I was head of strategy at the Environment Agency and I represent what is almost certainly the most beautiful constituency in the country, Tiverton and Minehead, with its farmers and all their environmental problems, the sea and everything like that. I want to go back to your point about exper…” | 183 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 891) “Let us hope he is watching this, shall we?” | 9 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 891) “As a liberal, I am not naturally draconian, but I am prepared to make an exception in this case. Going back to the point that my colleague Chris made about shouting into the void and your response about being federated, could we also have a list of the Departments that you have been in touch with to see their workforce…” | 135 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 891) “That is very reassuring. Thank you very much.” | 8 |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Network Rail Timetable Changes: Rural Communities “I have three nuclear facilities in my constituency: Hinkley A, B and C. David Peattie, the chief executive officer of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has referred to the horrible incident at Shap, because the NDA runs nuclear waste on trains on that rail line. Does my hon. Friend agree that if there had been nuc…” transportlocal-government | 66 |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Network Rail Timetable Changes: Rural Communities “Just one Network Rail station, Tiverton Parkway, lies in my very large constituency. Like many other rural parts of the country, we are dogged by totally insufficient transport. Does the hon. Member share my view that if proper, predictable timetabling in rural areas is a lever for social mobility, unpredictability is …” transportlocal-government | 55 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Digital ID “My Tiverton and Minehead constituency in west Somerset has the lowest social mobility in the whole country. Does the hon. Gentleman believe that mandatory digital ID will give a better quality of life to any of my constituents?” technologyimmigrationeconomy-jobs | 38 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1238) “It would be useful if you could do some work around that. Certainly, in my constituency, I would bet my bottom dollar that the reason many young people are not in education, employment or training is because they do not have transport. It is an absolutely key issue all over the patch. Could you delve into that and get …” | 119 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1238) “I want to talk about NEETs now. For anybody who does not know the jargon, NEETs are young people who are not in education, employment or training. What changes to transport will help to reduce the number of young people that are NEET?” | 43 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1238) “Does access to school count as a social necessity?” | 9 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1238) “Yes, that is it. That was great—come again.” | 8 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1238) “Whenever we have these meetings, there are always two things that are lacking. One is data and the other is strategy, for obvious reasons, because you cannot have strategy without data. I am delighted that Rose McArthur, who was a witness here earlier, had a quiet word in my ear and told me that Phil Curd, an officer i…” | 110 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1238) “I represent a very rural constituency, so I appreciate the difficulties. How hard is it for parents to navigate the legislation around home to school transport?” | 26 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “Finally, you have explained very well—it is very encouraging—that you are setting up this caseworker partnership with your clients to improve people telling you about changes of circumstance. In the case of people who have disabilities, do they notify you online sometimes? The caseworker thing might not click in.” | 49 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “To follow on from that, I was going to ask when you expect levels of unfulfilled eligibility to fall, but I am not going to ask you that because I am presuming that you are relying on this “Tell DWP” campaign to make that happen, at least in part. What measurements do you have in place post or during that campaign to s…” | 67 |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1231) “We did, right at the beginning.” | 6 |