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HANSARD Social SecurityMy hon. Friend is making a powerful, emotive speech and quite rightly talking about some of the impacts on pensioners. Does she agree that those are exactly the impacts that…10 Sept 2024HANSARDBudget Responsibility BillMy hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech on the importance of being responsible with our public finances. Much of the Bill is concerned with responsibility and transparency.…04 Sept 2024HANSARDBudget Responsibility BillWill the Minister give way?04 Sept 2024HANSARDBudget Responsibility BillThe Minister can answer this briefly as well. Could he confirm that he has no plans to change the fiscal rules?04 Sept 2024HANSARDBudget Responsibility BillIt is a delight as ever to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ghani. I congratulate the hon. Member for Loughborough (Dr Sandher) on his maiden speech and his kind comments about…04 Sept 2024HANSARDBudget Responsibility BillOf course, the legislation does not fetter previous Governments, but it would fetter the discretion of the hon. Lady’s own Front Benchers. In that context, does she not have the…04 Sept 2024HANSARDBudget Responsibility BillIt is good to have a proper debate. I certainly think that if we want and seek good government—which, like the human condition, is not a perfect state, but a state that we should…04 Sept 2024HANSARDBudget Responsibility BillAs ever, the hon. Member makes an important and weighty contribution. He is exactly right about the direction of travel. On both sides of the House, we will all find our own…04 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesYes. The exascale investment was being delivered through UK Research and Innovation, an enterprise that receives nearly £9 billion every single year and that, under our manifesto,…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI could not be happier to debate that topic, but I am very conscious of the number of Members who, I was told, are trying to make their maiden speeches, and I think it is the…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI hope that the hon. Gentleman will have a chance to speak about exactly that subject later. However, it is critical and, I think, a point of commonality across the House that we…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI have finished making my points on this subject, and I am happy to move on in the interests of the debate.02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI accept that we have strayed some way from the important topic that the Secretary of State came here to talk about tonight. Much as I would enjoy continuing this discussion with…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesThe last Government did not do that; it was an independent institute that had multiple sources of funding. As the Secretary of State and his Ministers will discover, funding of…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. On behalf of those of us on the Conservative Benches, I welcome you to your place. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesMy right hon. Friend has made an important point, and he is right: this is a director general-level appointment in the civil service, second only to that of the permanent…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will make some progress. I understand that colleagues will want to move on to other points, but this is a very important point. Once this…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesThe Secretary of State will understand that at any point in time, a Department may go through a triennial spending review, although actually the triennial spending review had not…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Building HomesYou are just reading! You are supposed to be answering the questions, not just reading out what has been written for you to read.30 Jul 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsFunding councils must be accountable for their own individual decisions. My hon. Friend no doubt reflects the concern of his constituents, who expect, in return for our record…22 May 2024