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Ministerial statement on Monday, 22 June 2026, in the House of Commons, led by David Lammy.


G7 Summit

Statement on the G7 Summit.


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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
788 cc27-42 
Session
2026-27
Department
Deputy Prime Minister
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
David Lammy | 788 cc27-9 (Link to this contribution)

I am making this statement on behalf of the Prime Minister. I spoke earlier today on the Prime Mi...

Lindsay Hoyle | 788 cc29-30 (Link to this contribution)

Extra time was given because I thought we would have a lot more on the G7; I did not know the sta...

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Kemi Badenoch | 788 cc30-1 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Deputy Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement. He is right when he says th...

David Lammy | 788 c31 (Link to this contribution)

This is the first occasion that I have been opposite the Leader of the Opposition. We are actuall...

Fleur Anderson | 788 c32 (Link to this contribution)

I echo the Deputy Prime Minister’s praise for the Prime Minister’s success in restoring the UK’s ...

David Lammy | 788 c32 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, yes and yes. My hon. Friend will be pleased that this issue was discussed at the G7 leaders’...

Lindsay Hoyle | 788 c32 (Link to this contribution)

I call the leader of the Liberal Democrats.

Ed Davey | 788 cc32-3 (Link to this contribution)

I start by recognising the courage it took for the Prime Minister to make his statement today. Po...

David Lammy | 788 c33 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the manner in which he put his remarks and for...

James Naish | 788 c33 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Deputy Prime Minister for his update on a range of issues from the G7 summit. Could h...

David Lammy | 788 c33 (Link to this contribution)

I pay tribute to the Foreign Secretary, the Prime Minister and our National Security Adviser for ...

Oliver Dowden | 788 c34 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Deputy Prime Minister share my concern, and that of many of my constituents, about eleme...

David Lammy | 788 c34 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question. We have sanctioned the entirety ...

Meg Hillier | 788 c34 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad that the Deputy Prime Minister reiterated support for Ukraine, but for that we need the...

David Lammy | 788 c34 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend will be reassured that defence, and increased defence spending across the G7, was ...

Ben Obese-Jecty | 788 c34 (Link to this contribution)

The Deputy Prime Minister mentioned the meeting between the Prime Minister and Sanae Takaichi, th...

David Lammy | 788 c34 (Link to this contribution)

I recall being in Japan as Foreign Secretary and discussing that deal, and I was pleased to see t...

Stella Creasy | 788 c35 (Link to this contribution)

After decades of Conservative Governments who preached isolation on the international stage, the ...

David Lammy | 788 c35 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her leadership on these issues. I assure her that the summit ...

Richard Foord | 788 c35 (Link to this contribution)

A week ago, the Prime Minister said that the UK would support the deal between the United States ...

David Lammy | 788 c35 (Link to this contribution)

Of course, HMS Dragon should be ready for any mission to secure the strait of Hormuz, with the ad...

Rushanara Ali | 788 c35 (Link to this contribution)

May I also associate myself with my right hon. Friend’s remarks about the Prime Minister and his ...

David Lammy | 788 c35 (Link to this contribution)

We strongly welcome the ceasefire but recognise that it is fragile. It must be fully implemented,...

Alec Shelbrooke | 788 c36 (Link to this contribution)

I really am quite impressed that the Deputy Prime Minister knows more about defence spending than...

David Lammy | 788 c36 (Link to this contribution)

We have been very clear about the red lines in our manifesto and about delivering on our promise ...

Kerry McCarthy | 788 c36 (Link to this contribution)

I, too, want to echo the tribute that my right hon. Friend has paid to the Prime Minister. There ...

David Lammy | 788 c36 (Link to this contribution)

I am proud that we took historic steps to recognise the Palestinian state. We oppose settlements ...

Robert Jenrick | 788 c36 (Link to this contribution)

The Deputy Prime Minister has just said that we are all in the Prime Minister’s debt. Well, that ...

David Lammy | 788 c36 (Link to this contribution)

Reform is in no position to ask questions or make demands when its leader is refusing to own up a...

Janet Daby | 788 c37 (Link to this contribution)

I also echo the Deputy Prime Minister’s remarks about the Prime Minister and his service to our c...

David Lammy | 788 c37 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We all want to see peace maintained in the middle east, and w...

Greg Smith | 788 c37 (Link to this contribution)

The Deputy Prime Minister was right to say that Iran must never be allowed to get a nuclear weapo...

David Lammy | 788 c37 (Link to this contribution)

I have stood at this Dispatch Box and discussed these issues over several years. I remember negot...

Steve Race | 788 c37 (Link to this contribution)

I join the Deputy Prime Minister in paying tribute to the exceptional work of the National Crime ...

David Lammy | 788 c37 (Link to this contribution)

Let me thank again the Royal Marines and National Crime Agency officers for their bravery and pro...

Pete Wishart | 788 c37 (Link to this contribution)

About the only thing of note and real consequence in the statement was the Deputy Prime Minister’...

David Lammy | 788 c38 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is right: the Leader of the Opposition and her party delivered a botched Brexi...

Bradley Thomas | 788 c38 (Link to this contribution)

Last week at Prime Minister’s questions, I raised the serious topic of the impact of steel tariff...

David Lammy | 788 c38 (Link to this contribution)

Protecting primary steel production, which is critical to UK national infrastructure, is the No. ...

Liz Saville Roberts | 788 c38 (Link to this contribution)

Diolch yn fawr iawn, Madam Dirprwy Lefarydd. Ten years on, Brexit has cost the Welsh economy £4 b...

David Lammy | 788 c38 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Lady and I have discussed these issues—indeed, we did so before we came into Gover...

Mark Pritchard | 788 cc38-9 (Link to this contribution)

Can I say to the Deputy Prime Minister that he is looking even more prime ministerial than he did...

David Lammy | 788 c39 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question—I expect to be here for a few days yet...

Monica Harding | 788 c39 (Link to this contribution)

We have been waiting for the UK-EU reset for two years, and today we have just more warm words af...

David Lammy | 788 c39 (Link to this contribution)

I am proud of the work we have done to reconnect with the European Union. Alongside the Minister ...

Harriet Cross | 788 c39 (Link to this contribution)

The Deputy Prime Minister mentioned in his statement an £18 billion investment from Japan. What h...

David Lammy | 788 c40 (Link to this contribution)

I just remind the hon. Lady that in the past decade, 70,000 jobs were lost in the North sea becau...

Ellie Chowns | 788 c40 (Link to this contribution)

The G7 summit took place in a country in the grip of an extreme heatwave—a heatwave that is now h...

David Lammy | 788 c40 (Link to this contribution)

It is great to hear the Greens talking about climate again, frankly—more, more, more! I am very p...

Lincoln Jopp | 788 c40 (Link to this contribution)

This is a joke, right, Madam Deputy Speaker? We have got the Deputy Prime Minister here giving a ...

David Lammy | 788 c40 (Link to this contribution)

Despite the repartee, the hon. Gentleman is well aware that in our constitutional system, just as...

Jess Brown-Fuller | 788 c40 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese ...

David Lammy | 788 c41 (Link to this contribution)

Ben-Gvir’s words are reprehensible and of course I condemn them. I was very proud to sanction him...

Al Pinkerton | 788 c41 (Link to this contribution)

The Government lauded the EU-UK reset deal as potentially delivering a modest yet none the less m...

David Lammy | 788 c41 (Link to this contribution)

I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that I expect that the EU summit will happen as quickly as po...

Jeremy Corbyn | 788 c42 (Link to this contribution)

There are massive death tolls in the wars in Ukraine, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

David Lammy | 788 c42 (Link to this contribution)

The G7 was a great act of diplomacy and I commend President Macron for a successful G7 summit. In...

Danny Kruger | 788 c42 (Link to this contribution)

Some 10 years on from the Brexit referendum, the Government want to align more closely with the E...

David Lammy | 788 c42 (Link to this contribution)

We must always do what is right for the country. I do not recognise the either/or that the hon. G...

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Armed conflict Immigration controls France India Japan Lebanon Gaza Conferences Treaties Israel Trade agreements Iran West Bank Middle East Ukraine Jerusalem USA Sanctions Russia G7 UK relations with EU Israeli settlements Ceasefires Strait of Hormuz
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