Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Thursday 26th February 2026 Commons Chamber

[Lincoln Jopp]

I thank the Secretary of State for that answer. In Spelthorne, we love our sport. I was playing walking cricket last week with the cricket club. I have been in the ring at the boxing academy and I have been to the dance academy. We also have Spelthorne FC, Staines & Lammas FC and Ashford Town (Middlesex) FC. I am inviting my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor (Jack Rankin) to come and watch Windsor and Eton play against my Ashford Town (Middlesex) team, and we look forward to a fantastic game. However, the jewel in our crown is the year 11 girls football team at Thamesmead school, which is in the last 32 of the country. Will the Minister wish them the huge amount of success that we all hope they will achieve when they play the Beacon academy from Kent—

[Mr Speaker]

Come on, finish! I call the Secretary of State.

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[Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)]

St Nicholas church in Shepperton in my constituency made an application under the listed places of worship scheme to get £16,000 of VAT back on essential repairs that it has made. It got an auto-reply saying that the scheme has been used up and that there is no money left. On behalf of the Church Commissioners, will the hon. Member entreat the Government to look again at that application and see whether the VAT can be reclaimed?

[Mr Speaker]

I am not quite sure that question is relevant, actually.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Monday 2nd February 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

On his birthday, I call Lincoln Jopp.

[Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)]

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Whose job is it to protect and enhance the moral component of fighting power?

British Indian Ocean Territory

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Wednesday 28th January 2026 Commons Chamber

[Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Who are you giving way to, Minister? Three Members think it is them.

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Monday 26th January 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Mr Tice, thank you.

[Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)]

Last time I checked, there were 404 Labour MPs. Why does the Minister think that his Whips could not come up with a single Back Bencher to come to the Chamber and support his position today?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Wednesday 17th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Gareth Snell.

[Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

I didn’t realise you had changed your name to Gareth Snell, Mr Jopp. I know you are due to be called, but I have to take two questions from each side to get the political balance.

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[Mr Speaker]

I call the shadow Minister—welcome!

[Lincoln Jopp]

Last night in the Strangers Bar, I bumped into a very influential Labour Back Bencher who told me with great authority that digital ID simply is not going to happen. That is good news, of course, because it is going to 1.8 billion quid we have not got, and it is deeply unpopular in the country. Why does the Secretary of State not give us all an early Christmas present and simply announce that she is ditching the policy today?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Wednesday 12th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I welcome to the Gallery the Canadian Speaker and the Ministers who are with him today.

[Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)]

Q1.   If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 12 November.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Wednesday 16th July 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. If this carries on, there will be no more. Come on, Lincoln Jopp.

[Lincoln Jopp]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Following the magnificent success of the England cricket team earlier this week and the triumphal return of Mr Jofra Archer, does the Prime Minister agree that what he needs from his Ministers over the next 12 months is more pace and less spin?

United States Film Tariff

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Wednesday 7th May 2025 Commons Chamber

[Chris Bryant]

The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I have already had discussions on other matters relating to the creative industries with Members of the Executive in Northern Ireland, and I think I have another call next week, so I will of course make sure they are consulted. He makes a very good point about tourism. An awful lot of tourists who come to the UK want to see the places where some of their favourite movies and television series were made. That is one of the things that VisitBritain is capitalising on at the moment with its “Starring GREAT Britain” campaign.

[Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)]

I very much enjoy discussing the British film industry, because Members across the House stand up and say that they have the Hollywood of Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire and everywhere else. I am blessed in Spelthorne to have Europe’s biggest film studios and the second biggest in the world in Shepperton—interestingly, it is second not to Hollywood but to China. There is a certain amount of nervousness in Spelthorne as a result of the posting on Truth Social that the Minister has come here to talk about. I agree with him that it is incredibly difficult logistically and technically to unpick the US-UK intellectual property in a film, and I think it will prove to be so. I therefore commend him for his considered run at this; I think it is the right thing to do.

A couple of weeks ago I visited Cineco, one of our many British film support companies, which makes sets and props. One point it made on skills is that the apprenticeship model does not work terribly well for industries that have so many freelancers and such lumpy work schedules. As a sidebar to the Minister’s meeting with industry leaders tomorrow, would he please raise and discuss that with industry leaders?

[Mr Speaker]

Another “Lawrence of Arabia” question.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lincoln Jopp

Wednesday 30th October 2024 Commons Chamber

[Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)]

Q13.   First we had the embarrassment of the Labour party being sued by the Trump campaign. Then we had the national capitulation—[Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Let me hear the rest of the question, please.

[Lincoln Jopp]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Then we had the national capitulation of the Government over the sovereignty of the Chagos islands, and now we have had the personal humiliation of the Prime Minister at the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit, all of which begs the question: how on earth does the Foreign Secretary still have the full confidence of the Prime Minister?