Covid-19: NAO Report on Government Procurement

Order. Wind up the question, please.

This is a missed opportunity to support the local economy and workers. Instead, we have imports, ...

Order. I am not going to allow interventions that long in future. There are many people on the ca...

Thank you, Ms Eagle. I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Story after story has come forward i...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we were on daily calls at the time discussing the pandemic and...

I will move on because I want to go through the ways in which the system was set up. I will move ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I do not have time.

Despite the enormous sums being spent, PPE was still not making it ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will of course give way, as I have mentioned the hon. Gentleman.

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is making some important points. However, I will ju...

On that last point, I can say I certainly never made that accusation. My point would be that it i...

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No. In the words of The Sunday Times authors—

On a point of order, Ms Eagle. It is important to note that ever since the role of anti-corruptio...

That was not a point of order.

It remains completely inappropriate.

In the words of The Sunday Times authors,

“As th...

I shall begin by imposing a three-minute time limit on speeches, but I think it will have to go d...

It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Ms Eagle. I congratulate the hon. Member for L...

To listen to the hon. Member for North East Derbyshire (Lee Rowley), one would think everything w...

I am reducing the speaking limit to two and a half minutes in order to get everybody in.

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Thank you, Ms Eagle. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship.

I congratulate my h...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Eagle.

The NAO report raises serious ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Eagle. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for L...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No. The hon. Lady has made many interventions already. Let me tell Members here, on behalf of our...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Eagle. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Membe...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Eagle. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for L...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Dan Carden) for his excellent speech at ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Eagle, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the M...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Eagle. I thank my hon. Friend the Member fo...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Eagle, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the M...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Eagle, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the M...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Eagle. As one of the people who originally asked the...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Eagle. I add my own words of congratulation...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Eagle. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for ...

The hon. Lady is making a very serious allegation when she talks about cronyism, implying corrupt...

I thank the hon. Gentleman, my former colleague on the Select Committee, for his intervention. Cr...

We know that £1.5 billion of the money spent has gone to companies linked to the Conservative par...

I agree with my hon. Friend’s point. I repeat: with procurement happening so quickly, under emerg...

Minister, please leave a couple of minutes at the end for the response.

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It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Eagle. I thank the hon. Member for Liverpoo...

Will the Minister give way?

Will the Minister give way?

I am afraid I am really short of time. Forgive me; I want to get through the content.

As I ...

Will the Minister give way?

I am so sorry; I would really like to make progress.

We have also had to rapidly address a ...

Thank you, Ms Eagle, for chairing the proceedings, and I also thank colleagues across the House f...

Will Members please leave promptly by the exit door on the left while observing social distancing...