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Jamie Stone

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Foreign Fighters and the Death Penalty
Thursday 11th October 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sam Gyimah Portrait Mr Gyimah
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The final sale price will be determined by market conditions, but it makes a lot of sense in terms of the time and the value of money for the Government to capture those assets now.

Jamie Stone Portrait Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) (LD)
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Surely now, like at no other time, we should be educating our country as best we can for the future, particularly in view of the uncertain times ahead. Does the Secretary of State not agree that this House has the right to demand that all the money thus received is spent on education and only education?

Sam Gyimah Portrait Mr Gyimah
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I thank the hon. Gentleman for that promotion, but I am not the Secretary of State. If he is willing to lobby the Treasury on my behalf, I would be delighted if all this money were to be spent on education.

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