Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:41 am on 4 September 2025.
Wera Hobhouse
Liberal Democrat, Bath
10:41,
4 September 2025
May I express my sympathy? No woman in this place will not feel deeply horrified and touched by what we have just heard.
I will not invite the Leader of the House to visit Portals paper mill in my Constituency, although she should because it is an amazing company that is 300 years old and manufactures security-grade paper. It produces passports for countries across the world, but absurdly not our own, which are produced by a French company abroad. May we have a statement from the Home Office on the security implications if future contracts do not require primary production and personalisation of UK passports to take place here in the UK?
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