Arctic Security

Debate between Alan Gemmell and Nusrat Ghani

Monday 19th January 2026 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker]

Order. Colleagues need to shorten their questions. Many Members want to get in, and that will depend on the length of your questions.

[Alan Gemmell (Central Ayrshire) (Lab)]

I thank the Foreign Secretary for setting out the UK’s position that the future of Greenland is for the people of Greenland and the Danes to decide. It is not right that one of our closest and oldest allies is threatening us with economic sanctions, so I have two questions for the Foreign Secretary. First, how will she explain to the US Administration our interests and our actions at this time, and stop the sanctions and resolve the situation? Secondly, building on the excellent question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (Dame Chi Onwurah), might the Foreign Secretary take an interest in the Franco-British fast jet replacement programme and a company called Aeralis, so that we do not have to rely on an American solution?

Illegal Migrants: Unknown Whereabouts

Debate between Alan Gemmell and Nusrat Ghani

Tuesday 9th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Alan Gemmell (Central Ayrshire) (Lab)]

Is that allowed?

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

Order. We do not need commentary from a sedentary position. I remind Mr Lowe that we do not accuse other Members of misleading the House, so please refrain from using such terms and please check your language.

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[Madam Deputy Speaker]

Mr Lowe, we spoke about this earlier. We do not accuse each other of misleading and we do not accuse each other of lying. There are different ways of framing such questions—

[Alan Gemmell]

You have a responsibility to be an adult!

[Madam Deputy Speaker]

Order. If I needed the hon. Member’s help, I would have asked for it.

Mr Lowe, this is a very serious subject. We have to make sure that our language is appropriate and serious. I will now call the Minister, and no doubt you will want to intervene on him, but please keep your language in check.

UK Infrastructure: 10-year Strategy

Debate between Alan Gemmell and Nusrat Ghani

Thursday 19th June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

I am hoping that the next question will be as entertaining as his constant chuntering. I call Alan Gemmell.

[Alan Gemmell (Central Ayrshire) (Lab)]

Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is very nice to finally be recognised by the Chair.

Does the Minister agree that this approach to investment is fundamentally different from the Conservative chaos that led to crumbling schools, hospitals and roads, and light-years away from that of the SNP Government, whose profligate waste of public money has led to a £1 billion ferry fiasco in Ayrshire?

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

Debate between Alan Gemmell and Nusrat Ghani

2nd reading
Tuesday 15th October 2024 Commons Chamber

[Alan Gemmell (Central Ayrshire) (Lab)]

rose—

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

Order. Just before the intervention is taken, I must mention the reference to “you”. Surely you are not responding to a question that I have just asked; you are speaking to the Chair. Please continue, Sir Ashley.

[Sir Ashley Fox]

I am happy to give way to the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Alan Gemmell).