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HANSARDResignation Honours ListsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. What nicer way to spend one’s 28th birthday? Alas, I am not 28.07 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very happy to look again at the hon. Lady’s work. Our general belief is that it is our actions in this place and outside it as elected representatives that will restore trust…07 Sept 2023HANSARDResignation Honours ListsWe discussed this at length on 22 June, when it was said that if the hon. Lady were to look at the resignation honours list of the former right hon. Member for Uxbridge and South…07 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI hope the hon. Gentleman is not suggesting that people can only vote if they have a passport or driver’s licence. If he does not know that that is untrue, he now does. We have…07 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs ever, my hon. Friend has his finger on the pulse. I was lucky enough to be on a work trip to Edinburgh and Glasgow just before the summer break, and all the people I met there…07 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady will know, because she sat on the Procurement Bill Committee, that we have a new procurement regime coming in, but in the case she refers to it is my understanding…07 Sept 2023HANSARDResignation Honours ListsIt is a long-standing convention, under successive Governments, that outgoing Prime Ministers can draw up a resignation honours list. Any names proposed are subject to the usual…07 Sept 2023HANSARDPublic Procurement: Value for MoneyI would be very happy to meet my hon. Friend about this and other issues. She will know that the Procurement Bill means we are now looking at the most advantageous tender, which…07 Sept 2023HANSARDBorder Target Operating Model: Food PricesI welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his spot and I look forward to debating with him on this and other issues. I do not quite accept his categorisation of us as sneaking out a…07 Sept 2023HANSARDArtificial IntelligenceI can assure the hon. Gentleman that they have. I can see he is new to the brief and he has some reading to do. [Interruption.] He has been moved from his previous brief to this…07 Sept 2023HANSARDArtificial IntelligenceThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point, as one potential risk of AI is that it displaces employment. However, across Government we are looking at the risks and opportunities.…07 Sept 2023HANSARDArtificial IntelligenceMy hon. Friend asks a pertinent question. The Cabinet Office, which is home to the Government Digital Service and the Central Digital and Data Office, takes a lead role, along…07 Sept 2023HANSARDBorder Target Operating Model: Food PricesI was trying to glimpse the British border target operating model within that question. The Government have taken a range of measures in order to help bring down the cost of…07 Sept 2023HANSARDArtificial IntelligenceI welcome the hon. Gentleman to his place and look forward to debating these and other issues with him in future. He will be delighted to hear that over the past three years the…07 Sept 2023HANSARDBorder Target Operating Model: Food PricesIn April, the Government published a draft British border target operating model and on 29 August we published our final border target operating model, confirming its introduction…07 Sept 2023HANSARDBorder Target Operating Model: Food PricesThe hon. Lady is right that we have pushed the date back several times, first because of covid, secondly because of Ukraine and thirdly to ease the pressure of the cost of living…07 Sept 2023HANSARDBorder Target Operating ModelThe Minister of State, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, has today made the following statement: On 29 August 2023, the Government published the final border target operating model…04 Sept 2023HANSARDDepartmental UpdateThe Minister of State, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, has today made the following statement: I would like to update hon Members on the main items of business undertaken by my…20 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Official Statistics Order 2023I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Official Statistics Order 2023. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. The order updates the list…18 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Official Statistics Order 2023We have had a wide-ranging and engaging debate. In answer to the question from the hon. Member for Vauxhall about the Natural Environment Research Council, as I said in my…18 Jul 2023