Dan Jarvis

Labour — Barnsley North

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• While I have huge respect for the right hon. Gentleman, I must say that he did not really answer the question. It is not
• I appreciate that the Minister cannot talk about security matters, so I shall try to broaden the question, and will hope
• May I first send our condolences to those who were killed in Poland? I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingf
• The threat that this country faces from hostile state actors is of grave concern to Members and parties on both sides of
• Mr Speaker, I know you take the safety of Members of this House very seriously. These revelations are deeply alarming an
• Members across this place know personally about espionage risks to our democracy, and I know that that is true of the sh
• The evidence that China poses a threat to our national security and democracy is clearly overwhelming. We have spent a l
• The Minister must now recognise the scale and sophistication of the Chinese Communist party’s efforts to undermine our c
• Our colleague, the Chairman of Ways and Means—I notified her that I was going to mention her—is sanctioned by China. She
• While it is unacceptable that Members of this Parliament are under constant hostile threat from foreign states, it is al
• Every Member of this House should be concerned about this affront to democracy, because the threat from China is incredi
• The targeted harvesting of phone and financial records appears to be part of a co-ordinated campaign of transnational re
• To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the UK Resilience Academy is scaling its training capacity for local res
• To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what systems are in place to identify and apply lessons learned from interna
• To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what post-incident review framework is triggered when an incident impacts mu
• To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how international benchmarks are used to evaluate the UK's progress on natio
• To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what her timeline is for publishing the findings of the review into the Civi
• To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how non-governmental organizations and think tanks are consulted during revi
• To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has been made of the extent to which the Be Ready campaign d
• Dyb, dyb, dyb!
• Be prepared.
• I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement, and join him in sending my condolences to the families of the t
• I commend my right hon. Friend and the Government for starting this national conversation. Given the extreme heat during
• Storms can strike anywhere at any time, as I found out last week. In many of our communities, neighbours and volunteers
• I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. Let me place on record our thanks to the emergency services, vo
• I thank the Security Minister for his statement on this vital topic, and welcome the much-delayed start to the national
• In the early 1980s, along with other enthusiasts, I set up the National Council for Civil Defence, and worked with Willi
• I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Will he join me in praising Ben Brook, the chief fire officer in Warw
• If rule No. 1, as far as resilience is concerned, is “be prepared”, does the Minister agree that rule No. 2 should be “h
• Tinned food is key to being prepared for an emergency, as it can be eaten when there is no power to cook it. Does the Mi
• Our subsea infrastructure is incredibly important; we know from recent reports that the Russians have been sniffing arou
• In my constituency of Henley and Thame, Greener Henley has already sprung into action and is seeking community champions
• Madam Deputy Speaker, you and I spent many hours in meetings managing the disastrous fallout from South East Water’s out
• We all know that at points of emergency, such as power outages and so many other things, mobile networks are incredibly
• I welcome the Minister’s statement. He will know very well that the “Protecting What Matters” strategy, which was announ
• Laying in three days’ supplies in the Northern Isles is what we do if we are confident that we are having a mild winter.
• I want to raise the issue of water outages, which I know you have also been working on in Sussex, Madam Deputy Speaker.
• The Security Minister and Cabinet Office Minister knows that I have a huge amount of time for him, but I want to slightl
• Just a few weeks ago, I hosted an event in Parliament with ambassadors from Denmark, Norway, Estonia and Finland on this
• The Minister will know from our many conversations my concerns around the threats we face from foreign states and terror
• The area I represent has the biggest river system in the UK and some of the most inclement weather in the UK, so my cons
• I thank the Minister for his statement and I welcome the Be Ready announcement. I have friends in Valencia who were impa
• In rural South Shropshire we face flooding and power cuts every year, so I welcome this campaign. However, I do not beli
• I welcome the statement and I support the Be Ready campaign. The Committee heard from the fire and rescue service, which
• Flooding in Somerset is a huge issue. One of the care homes in my constituency flooded last year within seconds. Yes, th
• As a Cornish MP, I can tell the House that we had 18,000 off-grid again this weekend with Storm Austen. We all worked to
• In any emergency, communication is key. In answering the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Stone, Great
• I welcome the Government’s serious approach to civil preparedness. I want to push back slightly against some Members on
• The United Kingdom is arguably already in a state of hybrid war against our adversaries. Does the Minister anticipate a
• I pay tribute to the men and women of Scottish and Southern Electricity, who are out there right now reconnecting the ho

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