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HANSARDRestoration and Renewal of the Palace of WestminsterSeptember 2016, January 2018, July 2020, and here we are again today. Members of the public might think that everything that can possibly be said about restoration and renewal has…20 May 2021HANSARDA Brighter Future for the Next GenerationMadam Deputy Speaker: “When we’re born, our mothers show us compassion. This is a natural response without which we wouldn’t survive.” Those are the words of the Dalai Lama in…13 May 2021HANSARD InsolvencyFirst, I commend the Government on the UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 and for putting in place, at such speed, both temporary and permanent measures at such a…28 Apr 2021HANSARD Business of the HouseMay I add my deep condolences to the lovely hon. Member for North Tyneside (Mary Glindon)? Will my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House set out what assessment he has made of…22 Apr 2021HANSARD House Standards System: Confidentiality and SanctionsMay I start by welcoming this report from the Standards Committee? It definitely clears up a number of loose ends from the original work on the ICGS and demonstrates the benefits…21 Apr 2021HANSARD Speaker’s StatementFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. There are few people in politics you can consider a real friend, but Cheryl Gillan was exactly that: a real friend to so many people in…13 Apr 2021HANSARDHis Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman)—what a lovely and fitting tribute he paid. I too pay tribute on behalf of my constituents to the…12 Apr 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I urge my friends in BEIS to think again about weddings? It is simply not logical and not fair that where venue organisers can arrange safe social distancing, we continue to…23 Mar 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe appalling events of recent days have caused great anger and anxiety. My inbox has many emails calling for curfews on men and many others calling for greater understanding that…15 Mar 2021HANSARD Business of the HouseMy right hon. Friend will see that the restoration and renewal sponsor body’s latest report, out today, recommends exactly the same as the report in 2014 and the report in 2016,…11 Mar 2021HANSARD International Women’s DayToday, I feel pretty angry and sad: angry that women walking home in the dark have to be scared of the person walking closely behind them, and sad because for far too many women,…11 Mar 2021HANSARD International Women’s DayI completely agree with my right hon. Friend, and I absolutely agree with everything she said in her remarks. During my time in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial…11 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationI am full of praise for the Chancellor’s work to protect jobs and businesses as we emerge from lockdown, and I support the measures he announced in the Budget, but I also urge him…09 Mar 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend has taken a strong personal interest in the tragic story of my constituent, Harry Dunn, so will he please continue to do everything in his power to reassure…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19I have a great deal of sympathy with what my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest West (Sir Desmond Swayne) just said. I applaud the Government and everybody who has been…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19rose—22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19Does my hon. Friend see, as he is hearing from our hon. Friends here in the Chamber, that setting out the very earliest dates assumes there is no harm caused by the continued…22 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I start by congratulating my right hon. Friend on his new job? I very much enjoyed working with him in what is now his Department, and I wish him well. I have constituents who…09 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsIs my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the early years healthy development review that is under way? Can he tell me what support is available to new babies and their mothers…02 Feb 2021HANSARD Domestic Abuse and Hidden Harms during LockdownI know that my hon. Friend is aware that lockdown has been so challenging for new families with small babies; in certain tragic cases, it has been deadly to those babies and…14 Jan 2021