Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster

The right hon. Gentleman knows that I am very critical of what the Commissions have done in this ...

I am happy to confirm that to the hon. Gentleman, who I know has taken a great interest in this p...

The Leader of the House has acknowledged that he is not an expert, and that most of us in this Ho...

I will come to that, but the hon. Lady is absolutely right. What we need to do is get on with thi...

Do we not also need some common sense and realism? Surely the priority is to do those works that ...

I honestly think we can do both. I think we can get to an understanding and a place where, with e...

One of the reasons why those of us who sat on the Joint Committee seven years ago—it is sad that ...

That is a little disingenuous. The cast-iron roof project, for example, was delivered in-house an...

Following on from my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling), it is cer...

That would require this House to change that model again if that were the case. That expertise wi...

On the staff team and the Sponsor Body, will the Leader of the House give a commitment that all o...

They are currently planned to TUPE across, and they will be taken across. Some of them have alrea...

May I try again?

Of course.

The Leader of the House keeps talking about how every Parliament has to be able to reform and cha...

The hon. Gentleman is wrong, in that we are changing the structures but he has to recognise that ...

Is it not the case that this project may never end, because as things go on breaking and evolving...

Where my hon. Friend is right is that it is a little bit like the Forth Bridge, in that there wil...

On the point of fire safety, could the Leader of the House confirm that the tens of millions of p...

Of course; it is absolutely vital. I hope that the hon. Lady will recognise that actually Notre D...

This is a critically important point. The Leader of the House has said that an outline business c...

That clearly would be the ambition—to try and get on with that as soon as possible, but there is ...

I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this timely debate on how we will govern the essential...

My hon. Friend talks about costs and we have heard about spiralling costs. The Sponsor Body has b...

My right hon. Friend is exactly right. We do not have to be expert builders to see that this is g...

In 2015, I was a member of the Public Accounts Committee, ably chaired by my hon. Friend the Memb...

I thank my hon. Friend for that question. She is right to raise it and to pay tribute to the work...

I thank my hon. Friend for her comments about the Public Accounts Committee. To be clear, the rol...

I completely support what my hon. Friend says. Why are we here? I have already mentioned my own v...

My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House is new to this. I recognise that both as a friend an...

The right hon. Gentleman is a fellow person who has been at this for seven years. We have already...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We went through all this seven years ago. It is hug...

Is not one of the difficulties that all the alternative places that we would have to go to in an ...

We have been around the houses on this. We had all the proposals, whether it was “Let’s build som...

Order. Before I bring in the SNP spokesperson, colleagues will see that we have at least nine mor...

First, I want to note an interest, in that I am on the sponsor board; I have been the SNP’s deleg...

I apologise to the hon. Lady for stopping her in full rant, but does she not appreciate that this...

Maintaining this building properly, making it safe and making it so it does not burn down is a ve...

What does the hon. Lady envisage this building would become? Would it just become an empty shell,...

Honestly, I do not really care: I am going to be out of here, the Scottish National party is goin...

Order. We will start with a seven-minute time limit.

7.43 pm

That was an interesting speech, although I am not sure that the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (K...

One of the problems is that lots of people advocate for having lots more of those individual proj...

The hon. Gentleman makes his point and we just have to learn to compromise. He mentions Mr Speake...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh). When he and...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to catch your eye in this debate. May I say stra...

It is four and a half years since we reached our decision and I think it has been said that it is...

Just to link that to the hon. Member’s earlier point, does he think there is much point in consul...

That is a very fair point. As I said, the decision has effectively been made.

Let us be hon...

This is a very disappointing debate because, as other hon. Members have said, we have been going<...

I will be quick, Madam Deputy Speaker. My contribution tonight is born of seven years of frustrat...

The building we are standing in today is more than a building; it is a symbol recognised the worl...

With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to conclude by thanking all hon. ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way at such a late stage. One of my concerns is that ...

The hon. Lady is right to draw attention to that. One of the fundamental problems is that, becaus...

I am happy to accept my right hon. Friend’s assurances that he will press ahead and ask the Deliv...

That message has been well and truly received, and I am grateful for the contributions that have ...

The amendments are not being pressed to a Division, so the question is the main question as on th...