Speeches by Murray.

“Thank you very much. To continue on the contracts, when customers enter a contract with you, what information do you provide them about the resilience arrangements that are in place? Also, do you consider it to be part of your social obligation as a provider to make sure that the customers understand the conditions tha…”

“You have mentioned that the power backup to mobile sites is in Ofcom’s field of vision at the moment. It is considering whether it needs to further assess a requirement for sites to be backed up for four hours. Is that currently part of Ofcom’s guidance, that they do have to have this four-hour power backup?”

“Telephones or—”

“I am very interested to hear you all talking about the competitive environment in terms of providing the infrastructure. I absolutely hear what you say, but I would like to hear what you think about the competitive environments for your customers. Under your obligation to provide resilience, is there a clause in the co…”

“Thank you. Will your customer communications ensure that your ability to deliver resilience will be included in communications going forward?”

“Does the hon. Lady agree that UK production in the North sea can never put us in a position like Norway, because Margaret Thatcher gave away our oil industry to private companies and we have no sovereign fund?”

“The development of the nuclear site at Wylfa in Wales is set to bring thousands of jobs and revitalise the local community. A similar site near my constituency would play an enormous role in the shift away from oil and gas towards energy independence and bringing costs down. Will the Leader of the House ask the Ministe…”

“I would like to ask Professor Hopgood and Professor Turney about the Defence Universities Alliance. What is your assessment of this planned alliance, and have you had any engagement through your organisations with the Ministry of Defence?”

“We heard earlier about the reticence of people to move into defence education, but we have also seen the launch of defence-focused undergraduate degrees at the University of Hereford. Do you think that creates a need or an opportunity for Scottish universities to develop similar programmes? I think this ties us into th…”

“It is good to hear it being highlighted how defence industry spending can benefit other industrial sectors, and how investing in the defence sector can benefit growth generally at the same time. £20 million of the £182 million UK Government Defence Skills Package will be spent in the devolved nations of Scotland, Wales…”

“Do you feel that the UK Government should be doing more?”

“Where do you think that that money should be spent to best benefit Scottish needs?”

“I believe I can. I apologise for that mistake. I will go and make sure I get those names.”

“Yes, I am very comfortable with that.”

“Yes, I think so. Now?”

“Thank you to the Committee for the opportunity to present this application for a debate. We have recently marked 30 years since the Nolan principles were laid out. They were established following a number of scandals in the early 90s and were designed to set high ethical standards to ensure integrity, accountability an…”

“On 23 February, the Cabinet Office confirmed that hardship loans would not be available to dependants or surviving spouses of civil service pension scheme members. That left one of my constituents alone, with two children and just one income after sadly losing their partner. Can the Minister explain how much it would h…”

“11. What estimate he has made of the cost of the civil service pensions recovery plan.”

“I absolutely agree. We have a real opportunity with Great British Energy, in the current environment, to take advantage of what the commercial companies are offering with regard to reducing costs for individual homeowners and to use digital technology to ensure that community energy generated into the grid benefits the…”

“Given that the total pricing structure by suppliers is including the cost of the debt, going forward debt prevention would seem to be a sensible thing to do in the total system that might not necessarily put costs up for everybody if the suppliers were pricing in a way that included a social tariff. Is that part of the…”