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Division Votes
15 May 2024 - Criminal Justice Bill - View Vote Context John Spellar voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 148 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 171 Noes - 272
15 May 2024 - Criminal Justice Bill - View Vote Context John Spellar voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 147 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 275

Speeches
John Spellar speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions John Spellar contributed 1 speech (112 words) Monday 20th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Defence
John Spellar speeches from: Public Procurement John Spellar contributed 12 speeches (2,118 words) Monday 13th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office

Written Answers
Parliamentary Estate: Telephone Systems Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley) Wednesday 15th May 2024 Question To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, for what reason the Polycom phone system malfunctioned on 9 May 2024. Answered by Charles Walker I am sorry that the right hon. Member and all colleagues continue to experience inconvenience in telephony services which are currently below standard. The latest issue with handsets underlines the need for the solution which the Parliamentary Digital Service is implementing later this year. Polycom devices need to communicate with an external supplier to register the device and make/receive calls. Each device communicates with one of two external servers. One of the servers experienced issues on Thursday 9 May and any device that attempted to connect to this server was impacted by the outage. Polycom phones communicating with the working server did not experience an outage. The first report the Digital Service received of handsets not working was at 12.13pm on Thursday 9 May. The team declared a major incident shortly afterwards and service was restored at 9.46am on 10 May. The Voice Programme is upgrading and replacing the existing telephony infrastructure and when implemented, handsets will have 99.999% reliability of connecting.

Written Answers

Parliamentary Estate: Telephone Systems
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Wednesday 15th May 2024

Question

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, for what reason the Polycom phone system malfunctioned on 9 May 2024.

Answered by Charles Walker

I am sorry that the right hon. Member and all colleagues continue to experience inconvenience in telephony services which are currently below standard. The latest issue with handsets underlines the need for the solution which the Parliamentary Digital Service is implementing later this year.

Polycom devices need to communicate with an external supplier to register the device and make/receive calls. Each device communicates with one of two external servers. One of the servers experienced issues on Thursday 9 May and any device that attempted to connect to this server was impacted by the outage. Polycom phones communicating with the working server did not experience an outage.

The first report the Digital Service received of handsets not working was at 12.13pm on Thursday 9 May. The team declared a major incident shortly afterwards and service was restored at 9.46am on 10 May.

The Voice Programme is upgrading and replacing the existing telephony infrastructure and when implemented, handsets will have 99.999% reliability of connecting.

John Spellar mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill 12 speeches (3,333 words) 3rd reading Friday 17th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Member for Warley (John Spellar) for participating in the Bill Committee. - Link to Speech
Public Procurement 45 speeches (9,251 words) Monday 13th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Friend the Member for Warley (John Spellar). - Link to Speech 2: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) Member for Warley (John Spellar) gave an excellent speech and referred to Churchill’s wonderful phrase - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 29th May 2024 Report - Third Report - The House of Commons standards landscape: how MPs’ standards and conduct are regulated Committee on Standards Found: Mr John Spellar 3R 2003–0411 Feb 2004Failure to register benefit from a trade union.
Thursday 23rd May 2024 Formal Minutes - Defence Sub-Committee Formal Minutes 2023-24 Defence Sub-Committee Found: Lewell -Buck, in the Chair Richard Drax Mark Francois Jesse Norman Sir Jeremy Quin Gavin Robinson John
Thursday 23rd May 2024 Formal Minutes - Defence Committee Formal Minutes 2023-24 Defence Committee Found: Spellar Derek Twigg R obert Courts having resigned as Chair¹, John Spellar was called to the chair
Tuesday 14th May 2024 Oral Evidence - Latvian Ministry of Defence Defence in the Grey Zone - Defence Committee Found: Spellar; Derek Twigg.
Monday 13th May 2024 Oral Evidence - NATO Defence in the Grey Zone - Defence Committee Found: ; Sarah Atherton; Richard Drax; Mark Francois; Kevan Jones; Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck; Jesse Norman; John

Bill Documents
May. 24 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 24 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 23 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 23 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 22 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 22 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 21 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 21 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 20 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 20 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 17 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 17 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 16 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 16 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 15 2024 Consideration of Bill Amendments as at 15 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 14 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 14 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 13 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 13 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John
May. 10 2024 Notices of Amendments as at 10 May 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Karen Buck Tim Loughton Andy Slaughter Sir Stephen Timms Charlotte Nichols Ms Diane Abbott John

Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Jul. 04 2024 Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street Source Page: Dissolution Peerages 2024 Document: Dissolution Peerages 2024 (webpage) News and Communications Found: The Rt Hon John Spellar PC - Lately Member of Parliament for Warley and formerly Comptroller of the Household