Rory answered questions in the House of Commons on 23 October 2015 on the subject of recent floods.

Elizabeth Truss MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, George Eustice MP, Minister of State for Farming, Food and the Marine Environment, Rory Stewart MP, Under-Secretary of State for Environment and Rural Affairs, and Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Lords Spokesman for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs appear before the […]

Elizabeth Truss, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Rory, in his capacity as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, answered Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Questions in the House of Commons today. Watch it here:

Rory Stewart: One of the most disturbing scandals has been the infection of thousands of people across the nation with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood. Today Lord Penrose publishes a report that follows nearly 25 years of campaigning by Members on both sides of this House to address the scandal. Will the Prime […]

I should like to begin by talking about the House of Commons Defence Committee’s report. The key element in the report, and in what I hope will be my relatively brief remarks, is that Russia poses a significant and substantial threat to Europe. That argument has been made in great detail by the Defence Committee […]

Transcript: Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border, Conservative) I will try to speak quite briefly. I pay a huge tribute to everyone involved for the way that this debate has been conducted. There has been a very good debate in the House of Lords, some very serious work by the Defence Committee since 2005 and […]

Transcript: Rory Stuart (Penrith and The Border, Conservative) It seems to me that the challenge in relation to the Chilcot inquiry is our inability in Britain to come to terms with failure, our inability to come to terms with what exactly went wrong with Iraq, and our inability to reform. As a result of all […]

Transcript: Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border, Conservative) It is a great privilege to follow John Woodcock, who gave an extremely eloquent, entertaining and serious speech. I will try to speak briefly. The great challenge here is to try to work out, after nearly 60 or 70 years of this debate, what new there is […]

Written Transcript: Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border, Conservative) Members of the House have laid out, with enormous ingenuity, the complexity of this situation; we have heard about everything from Turkey almost to Turkmenistan. In the end, however, this is a relatively simple motion and we should support the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister […]

Written Transcript: Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border, Conservative) We gather here today on the eve of a vote in Scotland that could tear the United Kingdom apart after 300 years together, and the question for us—whether in Scotland or in foreign policy—is: are we proud of ourselves? Are we serious? We look around the […]