Youth Programmes and Girlguiding

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall am 4:00 pm ar 19 Medi 2023.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Chair, Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament 4:00, 19 Medi 2023

I have been watching this developing disaster with increasing horror. The reason that may lie behind some of it appears to be a disastrous venture into property investment. Does my hon. Friend know about the headquarters of the girl guides, which spent millions on itself, and millions more on a hotel venture that went bust, owing unpaid rent to the girl guides of nearly £2.8 million? All that is alleged to be completely unconnected to the decision to close the overseas activities and the training and activity centres, one of which, Foxlease, is in my constituency. This reminds me of the Black Knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, with the exception that it is cutting its own limbs off and not waiting for other people to do it.