Lindsay Hoyle MP: speeches 2025

Speeches

• 2 Jun 2025 · Government Announcements · Hansard source

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  I call the Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Government Announcements · Hansard source

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  I thank the Secretary of State for that, and I am sure that Members will receive their copies as we speak.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Speaker’s Statement · Hansard source

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  Before we come to the next piece of business, I will make a brief statement. This morning, the Government published the strategic defence review. The Prime Minister made a speech and held a press conference in Glasgow, in addition to other media appearances. That follows several days of media briefing. I am disappointed that, once again, the Government appear to have breached the principle set out in paragraph 9.1 of the “Ministerial Code” that “When Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament.” I recognise that the timing of policy announcements is not always wholly within the Government’s control. There may be a need to co-ordinate announcements on international trade with trading partners, for example, or announcements may be delayed by last-minute legal intervention. The announcement of the SDR, however, was wholly at the Government’s discretion, so it is highly regrettable that Ministers have chosen, once again, to hold a major media event before coming to the House. That shows complete disregard for the House and for hon. Members. I note that Ministers, when they were in opposition, were not slow to complain when previous Governments made major policy announcements outside Parliament. In fact, the SDR was due at Easter, so I am sure that a day would not have mattered. I am not responsible for compliance with the ministerial code, which is a matter for the Prime Minister—it is the Government’s code, not the House’s code—but I regard this as a particularly blatant breach. I have invited the hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) to consider whether the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee might usefully inquire into the matter. Ministers are elected as Members of Parliament first, before they get their ministerial roles, so they should recognise the importance of the House. It is amazing that, in opposition, Members think that everything should be discussed on the Floor of the House, but when they are in government, their memories are short on that point. I have been here through many SDRs. In fact, in one of the major SDRs with Lord Robertson, we did not even know the effect on everybody’s constituency until it was read out from that Dispatch Box. What has changed? I will tell you what has changed: the disregard for Members who sit on the Back Benches. I am here to defend those on the Back Benches, so please, I hope we have no more of this. All I would say is that it is the Government’s ministerial code. They should be ashamed of not enforcing it.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Violence against Women and Girls · Hansard source

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  I call shadow Minister Katie Lam.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Strategic Defence Review · Hansard source

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  I call the Chair of the Treasury Committee.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Strategic Defence Review · Hansard source

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  I call the Chair of the Select Committee.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Strategic Defence Review · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Secretary of State.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Strategic Defence Review · Hansard source

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  I call the Father of the House.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Strategic Defence Review · Hansard source

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  Order. Please! It has not been a good day so far, and I do not want any more interruptions.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Neighbourhood Policing · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Minister.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Neighbourhood Policing · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Qualifying Period for Settlement · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 2 Jun 2025 · Illegal Working · Hansard source

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  I call the Father of the House.

• 2 Jun 2025 · UK Visas and Immigration: Processing Times · Hansard source

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  Order. Can I just say to the shadow Minister that we have a lot of Members to get in—I want to get to Question 15 on the Order Paper—and I need her help to do so?

• 2 Jun 2025 · UK Visas and Immigration: Processing Times · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Minister.

• 2 Jun 2025 · UK Nuclear Deterrent · Hansard source

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  Don’t worry: The Sunday Times did it for us.

• 2 Jun 2025 · UK Nuclear Deterrent · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Secretary of State, James Cartlidge.

• 22 May 2025 · A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project · Hansard source

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  Let us come to Minister Greenwood, even though I have been tempted to say that I hope it is not another 22 years before we discuss this again with a Campbell-Savours.

• 22 May 2025 · Lower League Football Clubs: Funding · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Secretary of State.

• 22 May 2025 · School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations · Hansard source

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  I call the Chair of the Education Committee.

• 22 May 2025 · School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Secretary of State.

• 22 May 2025 · School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations · Hansard source

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  Order. I have granted the urgent question, so please will Members on the Opposition Front Bench wait for the Minister to finish her answer. I do not want you, Ms Trott and Mr O’Brien, to be a bad example of this school class.

• 22 May 2025 · School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations · Hansard source

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  I think you have just corrected the record; that is not a point of order. We can leave it at that, unless the Minister wants to come in.

• 22 May 2025 · School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations · Hansard source

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  Is it relevant to this UQ?

• 22 May 2025 · School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations · Hansard source

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  Order. This is like having a second statement. The answers are getting longer and longer, but I have to get through this urgent question as we have a lot of other business. It is important that questions are answered quickly, but also that the rest of the questions are asked. We will now have a good example of a brief question from Laurence Turner.