Roger Gale MP: speeches

Speeches

• 26 Jun 2025 · Armed Forces Day · Hansard source

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  That is not a point of order for the Chair, but I think it is helpful to have the record corrected.

• 26 Jun 2025 · Armed Forces Day · Hansard source

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  I call the SNP spokesperson.

• 26 Jun 2025 · Armed Forces Day · Hansard source

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  Order. I am conscious that some Members arrived after the start of the debate. Ordinarily, that would preclude them from speaking, but I understand that the Prime Minister’s statement has slightly thrown our timings. My intention is therefore to accommodate all those in the Chamber who wish to speak, but inevitably those who arrived late will have to take their turn. I call the shadow Minister.

• 25 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport · Hansard source

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  I call the Minister.

• 25 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport · Hansard source

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  I call Ruth Cadbury to wind up.

• 25 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesman.

• 25 Jun 2025 · Haemochromatosis Screening · Hansard source

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  Briefly, Mr Shannon.

• 24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Hansard source

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  The debate will be opened by a member of the Health and Social Care Committee, Paulette Hamilton.

• 24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Hansard source

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  Order. It will not have escaped Members’ notice that we are playing “beat the clock” this afternoon. There is another debate to follow, with a very large number of speakers, and we are going to have to try and split the time between two debates. That means two things. First, after the next speaker I will impose a limit of three minutes on every speaker. The Liberal Democrat Front Bencher has agreed to cut her speech to six minutes and the other two Front Benchers have agreed to cut theirs to eight minutes, with no interventions. Secondly, it is up to Members, but if they intervene, we will not get through this, or else some Members will not be called—and it may be that Members who have spoken in earlier debates will not be called at all.

• 24 Jun 2025 · National Security Strategy · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 24 Jun 2025 · National Security Strategy · Hansard source

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  I call the Chairman of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy.

• 24 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Hansard source

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  Order. I call Liz Jarvis.

• 24 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Hansard source

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  Order.

• 24 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Hansard source

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  Order. I am sorry to have had to be a little brutal, but we managed to get everybody in. We are, however, 10 minutes over time, so if Front Benchers exercised a little discretion, that would be helpful. I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 24 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Hansard source

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  Order.

• 23 Jun 2025 · Points of Order · Hansard source

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  Order. [ Interruption. ] Order! That said, I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has given the Foreign Secretary notice of his intended point of order, but I think that that is a matter that he will have to raise with the Foreign Secretary himself. The hon. Gentleman will understand that the Chair cannot answer for Ministers, but he has made his point.

• 23 Jun 2025 · Points of Order · Hansard source

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  The shadow Secretary of State has placed his view on the record. He will understand that that is not a matter for the Chair any further, but I hope that whatever lessons need to be learned will have been learned, and I am sure that, on both sides of the House, that is correct.

• 23 Jun 2025 · Points of Order · Hansard source

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  First, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman did not wish to imply that the Foreign Secretary was deliberately misleading the House. [ Interruption . ] That said—

• 23 Jun 2025 · Points of Order · Hansard source

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  I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of his point of order. May I first express my sympathy to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) and his family? I take it that the hon. Member for South Antrim (Robin Swann) notified the hon. Member that he intended to raise the matter in the Chamber today.

• 23 Jun 2025 · Points of Order · Hansard source

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  I thank the Secretary of State for his point of order and for placing that on the record.

• 23 Jun 2025 · Points of Order · Hansard source

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  I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of his point of order. It will not surprise him to know that I did not attend the Labour party conference in 2022. The King’s Speech announced that the Government would deliver their manifesto commitment to implement a Hillsborough law by introducing legislation to introduce a duty of candour for public servants. It is, as the hon. Gentleman will understand, up to the Government to decide how they go about preparing legislation, and that includes whom they consult and when. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will play a major part in the scrutiny of the legislation when it is presented to Parliament.

• 23 Jun 2025 · Points of Order · Hansard source

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  Thank you. As the hon. Member will know, pairing is not a matter for the Chair; it is an arrangement between hon. Members individually and their Whips—and of course I could not possibly comment any further on that. However, the circumstances under which a Member is eligible for a proxy vote do not at present include family bereavement. If it wished to do so, the House could change that, but I am not able to do so on my own account. I understand, however, that the Procedure Committee has been conducting a review of these arrangements, which might include matters such as pairing.

• 23 Jun 2025 · UK Military Base Protection · Hansard source

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  Order. As is the custom, the Minister’s statement will be circulated to both sides of the House, but before we proceed, Members will notice that it will not be complete, in the sense that the Minister delivered a preamble prior to going into what will be circulated. That was to try to reflect the fast-moving nature of the situation. I understand that, courteously and properly, the Front Benchers have been informed of that. I hope that everybody understands that and will make allowances for it. I call the shadow Secretary of State.

• 23 Jun 2025 · UK Military Base Protection · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesman.

• 23 Jun 2025 · UK Military Base Protection · Hansard source

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  Order. As it is Armed Forces Week, it is entirely appropriate for the Chair to have allowed the Minister to respond to that question, even though it was not strictly in line with the statement. But from now on, given the time that we have available, we have to come back to the statement itself.