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HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for Meriden.21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI pay tribute to the right hon. Gentleman, who is the spokesman for the House Commission and has supported the work to get this Palace restored. He is right to point to the work…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI completely agree with the hon. Gentleman; he makes a very good point. We of course recognise the needs of the poorest in our society, and as a Government and a Parliament, we…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI hope I can assure the hon. Lady that the outline business case will be the project outline. The Estimates Commission will lay the annual estimates to the House for it to reject…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI think my right hon. Friend will garner a lot of sympathy across the House for his view. Again, we are trying to keep the scope of the Bill very narrow. It is merely to…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI certainly hope, and I think all of my right hon. and hon. Friends hope, that my hon. Friend will be here when we come back to this place. He is extremely young, and I am sure he…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI am only just warming up—I have hours to go. But the hon. Gentleman makes a serious point. The question whether to take planning into the Bill was certainly considered, but…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for his work on the House of Commons Commission. He certainly worked very closely with the other…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI am slightly disappointed to hear the right hon. Lady’s intervention. This Bill is about setting up a Sponsor Body and a Delivery Authority to restore the Palace of Westminster,…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his contribution to the Joint Committee. As I said to him outside the Chamber, I will happily look at any proposal that he wants to put…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillMy right hon. Friend makes an absolutely vital point. First, in planning its consultation the Sponsor Body—as I have mentioned, made up of seven parliamentarians and five external…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI want to make a bit of progress, then I will give way again. I also want to acknowledge the right hon. and hon. Members who, like myself, arrived at this issue with a degree of…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI shall make a bit more progress, if the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me. However, in formulating the governance arrangements, it has been essential that Parliament as the…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI give way to the spokesman for the House of Commons Commission.21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising that point, because of course this project is a parliamentary project; it is not a project for Government. Very specifically,…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI think I can give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. In essence, the Estimates Commission will be made up of parliamentarians, with lay member support, and those estimates will…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, but I will still respond to the hon. Member for Dundee East (Stewart Hosie) specifically on his point.21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillThis is a matter for the House to decide. I am talking about seven parliamentarians, because that is what is currently on the shadow Sponsor Body. It is, of course, for the House…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillI always love the hon. Gentleman’s banter, but I must gently point out to him that the hon. Member for Dundee East (Stewart Hosie) is a member of the House of Commons Commission,…21 May 2019HANSARDParliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) BillFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I can say that I am very sympathetic to my right hon. Friend, and I am afraid I do not have an answer, but I will pursue this…21 May 2019