Lincoln Jopp MP: speeches 2025

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2 Dec 2025 · Catapults and Antisocial Behaviour · Hansard source
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I thank the hon. Member for bringing her personal experience as a police officer to this debate. I thank her for her service. These new catapults have awesome power, and could easily take out your eye, Sir Desmond, or indeed other hon. Members’ eyes, and cause life-changing injuries. In fact, in my time in the army, in riots in Northern Ireland, I had them used against me; they were a gateway weapon for kids who would later graduate to the coffee jar bomb and the nail bomb.
2 Dec 2025 · China: Threat to UK Interests · Hansard source
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I thank the Foreign Secretary for that answer. There is a rumour going round Whitehall that the Foreign Secretary is not the Foreign Secretary, and that the real Foreign Secretary is Mr Jonathan Powell. That could not possibly be the case, of course, because it would make a mockery of the ability to hold the Foreign Secretary to account. Can the Foreign Secretary demonstrate that she really is in charge by telling us the precise instructions that she gave Mr Powell before he met the Chinese Foreign Minister four days ago?
2 Dec 2025 · China: Threat to UK Interests · Hansard source
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8. What assessment she has made of the level of threat that China poses to UK interests.
1 Dec 2025 · Office for Budget Responsibility Forecasts · Hansard source
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When did the Chancellor first brief her Cabinet colleagues on the realities of the OBR forecast?
1 Dec 2025 · SEND: Funding · Hansard source
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On 16 June I asked the Secretary of State what she understood to be the drivers behind the phenomenon of the exponential rise in the number of children with special educational needs. She replied: “My Department, and the Department of Health and Social Care, are keen to understand…the drivers”. —[ Official Report , 16 June 2025; Vol. 769, c. 11.] May I ask what work the Secretary of State has done in the intervening six months, and what she understands better today than she did on 16 June?
1 Dec 2025 · Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Peru) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Romania) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Andorra) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Portuguese Republic) Order 2025 · Hansard source
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Sir Chair.
1 Dec 2025 · Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Peru) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Romania) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Andorra) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Portuguese Republic) Order 2025 · Hansard source
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Will the Minister give way?
1 Dec 2025 · Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Peru) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Romania) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Andorra) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Portuguese Republic) Order 2025 · Hansard source
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I have just been checking my notes, and I think that the Minister may have inadvertently referred to you, Sir Desmond, as “Mr Swayne”. I thought it might be good to offer him the opportunity to correct the record, and show that he did not mean any disrespect to the Chair.
1 Dec 2025 · Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Peru) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Romania) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Andorra) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Portuguese Republic)) Order 2025 · Hansard source
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Sir Chair.
1 Dec 2025 · Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Peru) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Romania) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Andorra) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Portuguese Republic)) Order 2025 · Hansard source
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Will the Minister give way?
1 Dec 2025 · Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Peru) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Romania) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Andorra) Order 2025 Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Portuguese Republic)) Order 2025 · Hansard source
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I have just been checking my notes, and I think that the Minister may have inadvertently referred to you, Sir Desmond, as “Mr Swayne”. I thought it might be good to offer him the opportunity to correct the record, and show that he did not mean any disrespect to the Chair.
27 Nov 2025 · Right to Trial by Jury · Hansard source
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I thank the Minister for coming to the Chamber to answer this urgent question. I have taken note of what she has said and, if I may, I will quote it back to her: “a swift and prompt trial is a fundamental ingredient of fairness”, a three to four year delay is “deeply demoralising”, and “justice delayed is justice denied”. How does she square that position with her support for the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill?
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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Who knew?
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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Does the hon. Member acknowledge that whether parents get their money from income or from benefits, the Government, having inherited 2% inflation, have taken it up to 3.6%, which reduces the value of that pound in parents’ pockets?
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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The hon. Gentleman is being very generous with his time. I am a bit confused by his answer to my last intervention. Why was it a bad idea to lift the two-child benefit cap when the SNP suggested it, but a good idea now that his Chancellor suggests it?
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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You’re in charge.
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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For the record, why did the hon. Member vote against lifting the two-child benefit cap when the SNP proposed it earlier?
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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I completely agree with my right hon. Friend about the inherent contradictions. Would it be fair to characterise this Budget as the left hand not knowing what the further left hand is doing?
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way a second time. The Chancellor said on Sky News, “It’s on me now.” I would be grateful if he could set a date for when this Government are going to take responsibility for the country. I have plenty of things I could be doing in Spelthorne, so I will go away and come back when he is prepared to be accountable and take responsibility for the state of the nation under this Government.
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way. What is his message to the people who have been made unemployed since the Labour party came to power?
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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Does my hon. Friend share my concern that we have lost, I believe, 90,000 jobs from the hospitality industry just since the last Budget? While I do my bit to try to save the British pub industry on my own, does he worry, as I do, that today’s Budget will just make it harder and harder for hospitality?
26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source
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No one can doubt the hon. Member’s commitment to the people of Oldham. He is being very loyal to the Chancellor and her Budget. I have a simple question: if unemployment goes up in his constituency from today, before the local elections next year, will he resign?
24 Nov 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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Is Surrey going to get a mayor?
24 Nov 2025 · Ministerial Code · Hansard source
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I will try to speak really slowly and ask not multiple questions but just the one. How much cash did David Kogan give the Prime Minister?
20 Nov 2025 · International Men’s Day · Hansard source
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Very good!

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