Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Gregory Stafford

Thursday 23rd April 2026 Commons Chamber

[Gregory Stafford]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

[Mr Speaker]

Is it relevant to these questions?

[Gregory Stafford]

Yes.

[Mr Speaker]

Come on then, let’s hear it.

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[Gregory Stafford]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister said that he did not have the information to hand but did not indicate whether he was going to let me know what the answer was when he did have that information to hand. If the Chief Secretary does not provide me with a written answer to that question, what opportunities do I have in this House to get him to answer it?

[Mr Speaker]

I think we are trying to prolong an argument that you have already had. I do not think we need to worry, because I know you have the ability and certainly the time to pursue it in every manner possible.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Gregory Stafford

Tuesday 24th February 2026 Commons Chamber

[Chris Bryant]

I heard that.

[Gregory Stafford (Farnham and Bordon) (Con)]

He wants your job! [Laughter.]

[Mr Speaker]

Keep going, Chris.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Gregory Stafford

Tuesday 24th February 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I have spoken before about trying to drag in a supplementary question that is not relevant to the main question. I call the shadow Minister and welcome him to the Dispatch Box for the first time.

[Gregory Stafford (Farnham and Bordon) (Con)]

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker.

Seven months ago, the NHS 10-year plan promised a maternity taskforce. May I ask the Minister how many times it has met?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Gregory Stafford

Monday 25th November 2024 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. It is the Back Benchers who do not get in.

[Gregory Stafford (Farnham and Bordon) (Con)]

T4. Transnational repression by Iran, China, Russia and other unfriendly nations continues to be writ large on diaspora populations in this country. What is the Government’s strategy on transnational repression, and will the Home Secretary reintroduce the last Government’s defending democracy taskforce to monitor incidence?

Point of Order

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Gregory Stafford

Monday 9th September 2024 Commons Chamber

[Gregory Stafford (Farnham and Bordon) (Con)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. On 29 July, during a statement on public spending and inheritance, in response to my question about the effect that the scrapping of a new hospitals programme will have on Frimley Park hospital, which serves the northern part of my constituency, the Chancellor of the Exchequer responded:

“My right hon. Friend the Health Secretary will meet all those with affected hospitals—including those affected by RAAC—to ensure that we can as quickly as possible address the challenges”.—[Official Report, 29 July 2024; Vol. 752, c. 1065.]

Since then, I have had no contact from either the Health Secretary or the Chancellor. I seek your guidance, Mr Speaker, on how I can secure that meeting, and whether you have any advice for Ministers when making promises in this House on behalf of their colleagues?

[Mr Speaker]

I assure the hon. Member that I have absolutely no responsibility for Ministers, and neither would I want to have it. The message has gone out loudly. He has put it on the record, and I am sure that it has been noted by those on the Treasury Bench. If things do not happen, I say to the hon. Member—whose brother would, I am sure, also give him some good advice—that he can go to the Table Office. Many options are open to him to pursue the matter, but I am sure that the message has been heard.