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HANSARDTopical QuestionsWas the Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team informed by Downing Street of the former Transport Secretary’s conviction before she was appointed as a Minister of the Crown?05 Dec 2024HANSARDGovernment’s Five MissionsThe right hon. Gentleman is right: as the holder of two shadow portfolios, I get double the money. [ Laughter. ] I am sorry not to hear an explanation for why the Prime Minister…05 Dec 2024HANSARDGovernment’s Five MissionsIt is a pleasure to face the right hon. Gentleman across the Dispatch Box for what I believe is the first time. I am pleased to see three members of the Cabinet on the Front…05 Dec 2024HANSARD Plan for Change: Milestones for Mission-led GovernmentI thank the right hon. Gentleman for advance sight of his statement. It was very nice to receive it only 12 hours after T he Times , although I must say that I received the policy…05 Dec 2024HANSARD Northern Ireland: Legacy of the TroublesI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement, for giving an oral statement on this very important subject, and for scheduling the statement at such a time as…04 Dec 2024HANSARDBudgetI associate Conservative Members with the remarks that the Under-Secretary of State made about Ken Reid; he will be very much missed. A belated happy birthday to the Secretary of…27 Nov 2024HANSARDBudgetAnd, I hope, conversations with the Secretary of State. He will know that the make-up of farming in Northern Ireland is slightly different from that in the rest of the UK: there…27 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsPerhaps the right hon. Lady thinks that everyone came to London yesterday to thank the Government. Let us look at the facts. A typical mid-size, 360-acre family farm in the…20 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsI understand why the right hon. Lady does not want to answer questions about the terrible choices the Government have made. It is because the truth is ugly. The truth is that this…20 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsThis is just another part of the Budget that is unravelling. Everyone here and all the farmers at home will have heard that there was no guarantee there. We know what that means:…20 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsWe have already talked about Ukraine. It was Ukraine and covid that drove up inflation, but this Government are doing it to the British people. High tax, high inflation, low…20 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsThank you very much, Mr Speaker. I am very happy to associate myself and the official Opposition with the right hon. Lady’s remarks about Ukraine. Democracies must stand together.…20 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsFirst, we had above-inflation pay rises for the unions. Then we had a Budget that the OBR said was going to push up inflation. This morning, we had City economists—real…20 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsWell, I thank the right hon. Lady for her standard charm. The truth is that the Government are not doing anything to bring down inflation; this Government are stoking inflation.…20 Nov 2024HANSARDDraft Terrorism Act 2000 (Alterations to the Search Powers Code for Northern Ireland) Order 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. Hon. Members will be disappointed to hear that I do not intend to detain them for long. We support this order. As…19 Nov 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe point that we are making through our amendments is that the Labour party is undermining a key facet of the upper House: scrutiny. We are talking about a body of 88 hereditary…12 Nov 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillAs ever, wisdom from the Deepings. The truth is that this will not make the upper House a better Chamber for scrutiny. All it will do is remove some of the Labour party’s…12 Nov 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillIt is very generous of the hon. Gentleman to say that the Prime Minister will create 40 peers at his command—I had no idea that the hon. Gentleman’s career was progressing at such…12 Nov 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillWhat would you give him?12 Nov 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI am delighted to hear that the hon. Gentleman has married so well. Of course, life peers do a fantastic job of scrutiny—they do so every day, and I enjoy reading their lordships’…12 Nov 2024