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6 July 2026

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Linked oral questions and ministerial statements cover defence posture, deportation powers in grooming gang cases, foreign influence and electoral finance, police leadership reforms, and failures in Civil Service pension administration, with MPs probing legal powers, enforcement, accountability and options for legislative or contractual change.

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Ministerial questions and statements — defence, Home Office, pensions

34:06

Oral questions — defence posture and deportation powers

34:06

Defence Questions — Russia, capabilities and veterans

34:06

Defence Questions opening, Russia and NATO posture

34:06

Defence Questions opening and Russian threat

34:06

Opening tributes and start of Defence questions

34:06

Russia hybrid threats and counter-drone capabilities

36:05

Russian naval provocation, shadow fleet and NATO posture

39:15

NATO spending, Defence Plan and Ukraine support

41:55

NATO spending targets and Defence Investment Plan funding gap

41:55

Support for Ukraine and tightening sanctions on Russian energy

46:39

Veterans policy, housing and Troubles legacy

48:05

Operation Valour and veteran homelessness measures

48:05

Operation Valour — launch, centres and field officers

48:05

Operation Valour — housing, healthcare and compensation rules

51:01

Veteran homelessness — funding, housing access and Op Fortitude

53:09

Veterans services, mental health and Troubles legacy

01:09:35

MOD–NHS collaboration in Richmondshire: Catterick Integrated Care Centre

01:09:35

Veterans strategy, Operation Valour and mental health support

01:11:15

Northern Ireland Troubles legacy Bill and veteran protections

01:14:06

Naval capability, counter‑drone systems and Defence Investment Plan

55:07

Royal Navy surface fleet and counter‑drone capabilities

55:07

Royal Navy surface fleet — Type 23 drawdown and hybrid navy

55:07

Counter‑drone readiness — uncrewed systems and procurement reform

59:59

Defence funding, housing and Investment Plan

01:04:01

Defence funding and service accommodation delays

01:04:01

Russia threat and NATO eastern flank readiness

01:05:34

Defence Investment Plan funding, housing cuts and defence bonds

01:07:55

Arctic security, naval capability and defence investment

01:17:07

High North security, naval capability and defence industry

01:17:07

Cadet forces expansion, funding and support for sea cadets

01:19:22

Defence Investment Plan, NATO summit and Chagos funding question

01:21:39

Defence policy, spending and veterans’ issues

01:24:06

Veterans’ health, reserve forces and nuclear test legacy

01:24:06

Veteran blast injuries, Anglo-Dutch amphibious fleet and SSN-AUKUS numbers

01:24:06

Nuclear test veterans documentation and Army reserve training review

01:31:22

Defence spending framework, personnel welfare and nuclear enterprise

01:27:39

Defence spending metrics, family leave and nuclear enterprise value for money

01:27:39

Defence funding gap challenge, welfare and net zero, and Welsh industrial benefits

01:37:42

Defence questions — arms exports, asylum sites, veterans

01:33:25

Arms exports to Israel, Gaza operations and MOD site use for asylum

01:33:25

Veterans’ compensation, regional defence spend and accountability

01:39:09

Urgent Question — legal barriers to deporting grooming gang leader

01:43:47

Urgent question — legal barriers to deporting Shabir Ahmed

01:43:47

Urgent question — legal barrier to deporting Shabir Ahmed

01:43:47

Urgent question — legal barriers to deporting Shabir Ahmed

01:43:47

Urgent question follow‑up — cross‑party pressure for Ahmed’s deportation

01:48:56

Home Office and constitutional integrity — foreign influence and police leadership

02:07:53

Foreign influence review — ministerial statement and scrutiny

02:07:53

Ministerial statement and frontbench scrutiny

02:07:53

Ministerial statement — foreign influence and electoral finance reforms

02:07:53

Ministerial statement — Rycroft review and political finance caps

02:07:53

Ministerial statement — Electoral Commission powers, enforcement and online interference

02:13:31

Frontbench responses — donation caps and democratic security

02:17:39

Opposition response — consultation, retrospection and donation caps

02:17:39

Select Committee Chair — scope of candidate checks and democracy lead

02:23:11

Opposition response — donation bans, caps and cross‑government delivery

02:25:37

Foreign interference, political donations and enforcement

02:30:35

Foreign interference and political donations — detailed scrutiny

02:30:35

Crypto moratorium, social media duties and party consultation

02:30:35

Twitter/X, foreign‑owned platforms and residency‑linked donation caps

02:34:34

Donation caps, Rycroft enforcement and Reform-linked concerns

02:38:03

Reform UK donors, foreign billionaires and corporate shell routes

02:43:37

Implementation timeline, whistleblowers and stronger donor checks

02:48:28

Enforcement capacity, Russian‑linked interference and source‑of‑wealth rules

02:52:07

Home Office statement — police leadership reforms

02:56:57

Police leadership review — statement and scrutiny

02:56:57

Police leadership review — ministerial statement and frontbench reactions

02:56:57

Ministerial statement — Policing Leadership Commission report

02:56:57

Shadow Minister response — leadership culture, officer numbers and reform model

03:05:10

Backbench concern — frontline burden and bureaucratic reform

03:11:14

Liberal Democrat response — resources, misconduct and officer suicides

03:12:57

Police Leadership Commission — chief constables, structure and ethics

03:16:45

Chief constable appointments, PCC structures and leadership training gap

03:16:45

Disproportionate strip‑searching of black children and data gaps

03:21:36

Professional officer corps debate and military–police cross‑fertilisation

03:23:44

Police Leadership review — ethical standards and structural reform

03:25:44

Policing practice — discrimination, bureaucracy and external recruitment

03:34:29

Two-tier policing concerns, bureaucracy and external recruitment

03:34:29

Civil service pensions — Capita failures and future contracting

03:42:22

Government statement — Capita pension administration failures

03:42:22

Opening of statement and ministerial remit

03:42:22

Transition from policing to civil service pensions statement

03:42:22

Closure of Police Leadership statement and transition to pensions update

03:42:22

Minister — Capita collapse, sanctions and insourcing options

03:42:50

Minister — Capita failures and government sanctions

03:42:50

Civil Service pensions — Capita contract failure and backlogs

03:42:50

Government response — sanctions on Capita and future insourcing framework

03:47:42

Civil service pensions — Capita failures and accountability

03:52:19

Opposition response — accountability, compensation and debarment

03:52:19

Shadow Minister vs Minister — accountability, compensation and debarment

03:52:19

Shadow Minister — contract oversight failures and debarment questions

03:52:19

Shadow Minister — targeted questions on compensation and Capita’s future

03:55:02

Minister’s rebuttal — contract inheritance and compensation scheme

03:57:24

Capita procurement, risk management and service failures

03:58:50

Procurement failures, risk assessment and backlog timetable

03:58:50

Public Accounts Committee — procurement history and contingency planning

03:58:50

Liberal Democrat response — restoring confidence and bereavement backlog

04:01:07

Case-handling deficiencies, hardship evidence and interim support

04:04:06

MP case-handling, communications problems and emotional impact

04:04:06

Constituent hardship cases and demands to bring scheme in-house

04:07:13

Missed deadlines, financial support and legal anomalies

04:10:29

Civil service pensions — Capita contract, failures and insourcing debate

04:15:39

Capita contract accountability and insourcing options

04:15:39

Capita penalties, missed deadlines and insourcing options

04:15:39

Compensation from Capita profits and union‑backed insourcing review

04:19:25

Due diligence, value for money and outsourcing reform

04:25:16

Civil service pensions — Capita failures, hardship and insourcing options

04:27:36

Civil service pensions — hardship cases and competence of Capita

04:27:36

Deadlines, surge staffing and accountability for Capita leadership

04:33:07

Social contract, hardship loans and restoring trust

04:37:16

MP surgeries, insourcing prospects and future retirees’ assurances

04:40:43

Legislative and regulatory business — security, waste, compensation, skills levy

04:47:05

Commons handling of Lords amendments and shift to waste permitting

04:47:05

Commons consideration of Lords amendments

04:47:05

Introduction to Lords amendments and humanitarian safeguards

04:47:05

Opening of Lords amendments and Government case

04:47:05

Opening of Lords amendments on National Security (State Threats) Bill

04:47:05

Minister: humanitarian and journalistic safeguards in Lords amendments

04:47:30

Commons debate — humanitarian defence scope and risks

04:54:58

Shadow Minister: risks of humanitarian defence as state‑threat loophole

04:54:58

International Development Chair: defence vs exemption for humanitarian NGOs

04:58:59

Liberal Democrat support — Iran threats and humanitarian defence

05:04:36

Backbench scrutiny of humanitarian amendments and IRGC designation

05:10:33

Lords amendment outcome and move to waste permitting SI

05:19:40

Lords amendment 1 result and transition

05:19:40

Lords amendment 1 — division result

05:19:40

Division result on Lords amendment 1

05:19:40

Minister — new waste permitting framework

05:34:23

Minister — rationale for new waste permitting regime

05:34:23

Environmental permitting SI — Minister’s introduction

05:34:23

Minister — enforcement powers, funding and primary authority changes

05:46:29

Environmental Permitting SI — opposition scrutiny and ministerial response

05:55:14

Opposition frontbench and Conservative backbench concerns on SI

05:55:14

Shadow Minister — business costs, impact assessment and review

05:55:14

Backbench case study — South Elmsall illegal landfill and EA enforcement powers

06:00:38

Environmental Permitting SI — opposition cases and ministerial reply

06:10:21

Liberal Democrat response — backing SI but demanding tougher fly‑tipping enforcement

06:10:21

Backbench case studies — rogue landfill operators and community impacts

06:17:07

Minister’s wind‑up — costs, enforcement detail and SI approval

06:28:21

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme regulations — Commons scrutiny

06:37:02

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme — regulations and scrutiny

06:37:02

Minister — introduction and scheme design

06:37:02

Minister’s introduction and scheme roll‑out status

06:37:02

Infected Blood Compensation Regulations — Minister’s introduction and payment progress

06:37:02

Compensation design — ‘test and learn’ approach and community‑led scheme

06:41:35

Compensation scheme scope, regulatory changes and frontbench scrutiny

06:46:12

Scope of awards — spouses, wider family and carers’ recognition

06:46:12

Minister — consultation outcome and devolved engagement

06:49:38

Minister — exceptional loss, missing records and duty of candour

06:57:30

Opposition frontbench — support for IBCA reforms and demands on clarity, timetable and appeals

07:04:13

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme — Commons scrutiny

07:14:11

Opposition MPs — gaps in infected blood compensation scheme

07:14:11

Labour backbencher — pace of payments, evidential flexibility and unethical testing awards

07:14:11

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — carers’ compensation, impossible evidence demands and Hillsborough Law

07:17:31

Backbencher case study — disparities for deceased victims and affected families

07:24:13

Infected Blood Compensation Regulations — final Commons debate and approval

07:30:44

Infected blood compensation — SNP critique on pace, estates and duty of candour

07:30:44

Minister’s closing response and approval of Infected Blood Compensation Regulations

07:40:43

ECITB levy order — ministerial case and cross‑party scrutiny

07:45:12

ECITB levy order — ministerial case and cross‑party scrutiny

07:45:12

ECITB levy order — ministerial case and opposition scrutiny

07:45:12

Minister — ECITB levy order and framework

07:45:12

Industrial Training Levy Order 2026 — Minister: ECITB mandate and levy framework

07:45:12

Opposition spokesperson — ECITB levy support and industry skills gap

07:51:47

Opposition questions — workforce pipeline, grants and ECITB–CITB merger

07:55:20

Backbench MPs — apprenticeships, NEETs and regional skills

07:59:53

Labour backbencher — apprenticeships, NEETs and local opportunity in Portsmouth

07:59:53

Cross-party backing — apprenticeships across sectors and Liberal Democrat support

08:04:11

ECITB levy order — history, funding and union support

08:06:47

Labour MP — history and value of industrial training boards and ECITB levy

08:06:47

ECITB levy — connected competence, merger and worker voice

08:10:16

House late‑night business and committee changes

08:20:53

Late‑night House business — statutory instruments and committee changes

08:20:53

Late‑night House business — statutory instruments and committee membership

08:20:53

Procedural business — statutory instruments and committee membership

08:20:53

Late‑night delegated legislation and committee membership

08:20:53

Block of deferred and agreed motions on delegated legislation

08:20:53

Minister–MP exchange on HSIB reform

08:23:55

Minister–MP exchange on HSIB abolition

08:23:55

Minister–MP exchange on HSIB abolition

08:23:55

Dash review and HSIB abolition — Minister–MP exchange

08:23:55

Adjournment debate — Dash review and HSIB abolition

08:23:55

Adjournment debate — Dash review, HSIB abolition and CQC investigations

08:23:55

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House of Commons

6 July 2026

Mon, 6 Jul 2026 Actual start 14:00 House of Commons

34:06 - 34:59

Speaker 3

Before we begin, I'd like to pay tribute to Sir George Howarth, who died last week. Sir George was the Member of Parliament for Knowsley from 1986 to 2024. He held numerous posts on select committees in this House, was appointed a minister in the late 1990s, and was a later distinguished and long-serving member of the Panel of Chairs. I've got to say, George I knew. His father-in-law was the MP for Chorley.

And George had this commitment to come in. And we all had to go and work on his by-election. And tragically, George got a bad back, but we did have a big majority at the end of it. But of course, our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Julie and wider family and friends. He was a great politician, and it is another sad loss to this House.

Order, order. We start with questions. Secretary of State for Defence, Alex Burghart-Curtis.

34:59 - 35:01

Speaker 1

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Question number one, please.

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