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HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. This passport chaos is, to borrow the phrase used recently by one Minister, “absolutely godawful”. The scale of the delay really is quite…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogI have a constituent who had three attempted deliveries from TNT, but he was not informed and did not receive the passport, which was returned to Peterborough. As far as I know,…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogWill the Minister give way?14 Jun 2022HANSARD Asylum Seekers: Removal to RwandaIf the Minister finds it so offensive that my colleague calls the Tory Rwanda scheme “state-sponsored trafficking”, what else would he call the act of shipping vulnerable people…13 Jun 2022HANSARDGovernment Food StrategyMissing from this strategy is food security for our very youngest citizens—those who require infant formula. We only need to look to the United States to see how precarious the…13 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Gross Domestic ProductIt is interesting that the Minister talks about the covid testing scheme. Is it perhaps the case that the covid testing scheme is artificially inflating GDP, rather than the…13 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt was really interesting to hear the Secretary of State palm off the detail of the tax on electricity generators to the Chancellor, because the Chancellor could not answer many…07 Jun 2022HANSARDFootball Index CollapseI am glad to have the opportunity to speak in this debate on behalf of a number of constituents who were affected by the Football Index scandal—in particular, two gentlemen called…07 Jun 2022HANSARDChampions League Final: ParisI thank the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne) for asking this UQ. My Liverpool-supporting constituent Amy Shimmin travelled to what was her third European football…06 Jun 2022HANSARD Asylum Reception Centre: Linton-on-OuseI very much support the debate that the hon. Gentleman has brought forward. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on immigration detention, I have visited the Napier site…24 May 2022HANSARD Asylum Reception Centre: Linton-on-Ouserose —24 May 2022HANSARD Asylum Reception Centre: Linton-on-OuseI appreciate the Minister giving way. Will he explain exactly how people will get legal support on site in a village in the middle of nowhere? Would he not be better to go back to…24 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthToday is National Numeracy Day and there will be a lot of figures flying about this afternoon. It often makes me think that it would be helpful in this place if we were allowed to…18 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthThere are multiple benefits to Scotland being independent, and the greatest one would certainly be not having to live with policy choices made by this Government, for whom none of…18 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthI will certainly give way to the right hon. Gentleman if he can explain why there is a benefit of Brexit when we see only economic harm.18 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthMy hon. Friend makes an interesting suggestion because, of course, Northern Ireland has benefited from that. Investment in our communities has taken a direct hit from the loss of…18 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthIf the hon. Member would like to explain to me why Scotland deserves less now than it had before Brexit, I will take his intervention.18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsI know from both my own case work and my work as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on immigration detention that the Home Office decision-making process is often flawed…18 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthThat goes to my point that we can make all kinds of statistics show all kinds of things. But what we hear from food producers in Scotland is that it is very difficult for them to…18 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthThe right hon. Lady makes an excellent point. The Scottish National Investment Bank is already up and running, but there is nothing from the Government on how that will interact…18 May 2022