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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Nov 2025
China Espionage: Government Security Response

"Does the Minister consider that China represents a current threat to this country? Will he also expand on the work his officials are doing with the Members and Members’ Staff Services Team to remove potential security weaknesses, not just from this building but from MPs’ constituency offices and our homes?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Oct 2021
Speaker's Statement

"I rise to make two points, about James and the work he did and about James as a friend.

I followed James in two ministerial positions. I took over from him as Minister with responsibility for modern slavery when he became the Minister for security and immigration, and then I …..."
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Written Question
Ports: Personal records
Monday 21st September 2020

Asked by: Karen Bradley (Conservative - Staffordshire Moorlands)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what financial provision he is making available to ensure that there is adequate (a) infrastructure and (b) staffing in place to enable exit checks to be carried out at all UK ports from 1 January 2021.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

On 12 July, the Government announced a £705 million funding package for border infrastructure, staffing and IT to ensure GB border systems are fully operational when the UK takes back control of its border after the end of the transition period.

The £705 million will be split between £470 million for port and inland infrastructure and £235 million for new staff and IT systems. Further details will be set out in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Sep 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Many of us in this House will know the value of community hospitals in our constituencies, with none more valued than Leek Moorlands Hospital in my constituency. A consultation has recently been undertaken on the provision of healthcare in north Staffordshire, and there is understandable concern about the future of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Jul 2019
Priorities for Government

"I welcome my right hon. Friend to his place as Prime Minister and welcome the optimistic tone that he used in his opening statement. He has set out his priorities for Government, but will he consider two others? The people of Northern Ireland have been without a Government for two …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"I hope, Mr Speaker, you will allow me a slight indulgence at the beginning of proceedings to wish the hon. Member for Ealing North (Stephen Pound) a very happy birthday. Today is, I believe, the feast day of St Thomas, but none of us is in any doubt about the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"I agree wholeheartedly with the hon. Gentleman. He is absolutely right in the way he describes how the 2021 anniversary should be marked. I reflect on the work by the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson) on the world war one commemorations, which had an inclusive …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"That is a matter for my colleagues in the Cabinet Office, who will have heard my hon. Friend’s question. He will know that we are changing the date of the early May bank holiday next year to mark VE-day. Perhaps they would want to consider using the subsequent bank holiday …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"I absolutely agree with the hon. Lady. We should all reflect on the words that she quoted. She will be pleased to know that, at the last meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office raised exactly those points with his Irish …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"There has been significant engagement over the past nine weeks with the political parties in Northern Ireland, considering a range of important and difficult issues. Progress has been made, but there are a number of areas of disagreement between the political parties...."
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