Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Jul 2021
International Aid: Treasury Update
"Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?..."Lord Harper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Jul 2021
International Aid: Treasury Update
"I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way. I agree with him about keeping promises, and Conservative Members were also elected to keep fiscal promises to reduce our debt and not to borrow for day-to-day spending. I hope in his remarks he will set out, …..."Lord Harper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Jul 2021
International Aid: Treasury Update
"Can I just pick the right hon. Gentleman up on that point about other areas of expenditure? The Treasury and the Chancellor have set out these tests—promises that are in our manifesto, and which we mean to keep. The comprehensive spending review is taking place this year, and it seems …..."Lord Harper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Jul 2021
International Aid: Treasury Update
"I have listened very carefully to the speeches in this debate, and many of them focused on our manifesto promise on aid spending. That is entirely correct but, as I said in one of my interventions, we also made a commitment not to borrow money for day-to-day spending and to …..."Lord Harper - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 12th July 2021
Asked by:
Lord Harper (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2021 to Question 25746 on the resignation of the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to commission the Director General of the Propriety and Ethics Team in the Cabinet Office to investigate and report to him on matters on the conduct of Government Ministers.
Answered by Boris Johnson
Paragraph 1.4 of the Ministerial Code sets out the process for investigating alleged breaches of the Code.
Written Question
Tuesday 6th July 2021
Asked by:
Lord Harper (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, what steps he (a) took on 25 June 2021 and (b) has taken subsequently to establish the facts on the matters which led to the resignation of the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 26 June 2021.
Answered by Boris Johnson
My Rt Hon Friend the Member for West Suffolk wrote to me on 26 June 2021, offering his resignation as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. I replied the same day accepting his resignation. These letters are a matter of public record.
Written Question
Tuesday 6th July 2021
Asked by:
Lord Harper (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, whether he (a) directly or (b) indirectly commissioned the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests to investigate and report on the matters which led to the resignation of the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 26 June 2021.
Answered by Boris Johnson
My Rt Hon Friend the Member for West Suffolk wrote to me on 26 June 2021, offering his resignation as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. I replied the same day accepting his resignation. These letters are a matter of public record.
Written Question
Tuesday 6th July 2021
Asked by:
Lord Harper (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, whether he (a) directly or (b) indirectly commissioned the Director General, Propriety & Ethics, Cabinet Office to investigate and report on the matters which led to the resignation of the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 26 June 2021.
Answered by Boris Johnson
My Rt Hon Friend the Member for West Suffolk wrote to me on 26 June 2021, offering his resignation as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. I replied the same day accepting his resignation. These letters are a matter of public record.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jun 2021
Security of Ministers’ Offices and Communications
"On the use of private emails for Government business, will the Minister confirm the legal position under the Freedom of Information Act? My understanding is that if a public authority—the Secretary of State clearly is a public authority—uses a private email for Government business, that private email and those emails …..."Lord Harper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jun 2021
G7 and NATO Summits
"In the Prime Minister’s statement, he refers to the G7 combining our strength to defeat covid. Would it not be more accurate to say that we need to make sure we can vaccinate the world to protect people, but then we need to learn to live with what will be …..."Lord Harper - View Speech
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