Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Claire Young Excerpts
Thursday 23rd April 2026

(1 day, 13 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Satvir Kaur Portrait The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Satvir Kaur)
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The Government have taken robust action through our Public Sector Fraud Authority. There is a huge amount of work being done. In fact, last year we saved the public purse more than £7.5 billion. A lot has been done, but there is lots more to do, and I am happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss that further.

Claire Young Portrait Claire Young (Thornbury and Yate) (LD)
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Happy St George’s day, Mr Speaker. A business I met recently raised concerns about grid resilience to Chinese sabotage. Given the precedent set on Huawei and 5G, what steps is the Cabinet Office taking to exclude high-risk Chinese components from our critical energy infrastructure?

Dan Jarvis Portrait Dan Jarvis
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If the hon. Member would like to write to me, I would be happy to look at the details of what she has raised. She will understand that I do not want to get into the detail of it now, but I give her an assurance that we look very carefully at all these matters and take decisions in our national security interests.