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HANSARDSouth Downs National Park: 10th AnniversaryI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, but I beg to differ. I do not want to turn this into a debate about taxation, but in my view it would be a simplification—business…12 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19My hon. Friend is making exactly the right point in thanking our dedicated health care professionals who, both in the length and the breadth of their contribution, have been very…12 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19It is a great pleasure to follow my friend and Sussex colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Sally-Ann Hart). Like her, I wish to speak for one group whose…12 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19rose —12 Jan 2021HANSARDSouth Downs National Park: 10th AnniversaryI thank my hon. Friend for his timely intervention and for touching on a topic that is of concern to many residents. I not only hold out the prospect of increased police numbers…12 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; I know he will want to make progress. One group is further away from receiving a vaccine: undergraduates who would otherwise be returning to…12 Jan 2021HANSARDSouth Downs National Park: 10th AnniversaryI thank my hon. Friend for making that point, as a fellow representative of a constituency that contains part of the national park and as someone with personal experience in the…12 Jan 2021HANSARDSouth Downs National Park: 10th AnniversaryIt is a pleasure to rise on behalf of us all in Parliament to commemorate the 10 years since the South Downs national park, our nation’s newest, was recognised with that status.…12 Jan 2021HANSARDSouth Downs National Park: 10th AnniversaryThe wart-biter bush cricket.12 Jan 2021HANSARDSouth Downs National Park: 10th AnniversaryIf the Minister will allow me, I will be very happy to mention dark skies. As she knows, I hosted an Adjournment debate as chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for dark…12 Jan 2021HANSARD Dark SkiesAs ever, my hon. Friend, with the varied experience that he brings to the House, makes an excellent point. Not only can hard-pressed local councils save money that they can…14 Dec 2020HANSARD Dark SkiesIt is good to see Members from across the country here this evening, representing their own dark sky places and reserves. It is an immense privilege to represent in this House…14 Dec 2020HANSARD Dark SkiesThe hon. Member makes an excellent point and anticipates one of the points I hope to get on to. The first of our recommendations concerns the Minister himself. As has been widely…14 Dec 2020HANSARD Dark SkiesI certainly agree with my hon. Friend. Although he did not invite me, I would be very willing to come and see the charms of first light, as it rises in the east off Lowestoft. For…14 Dec 2020HANSARD Dark SkiesMy hon. Friend is a doughty champion of her constituency and its virtues. I am encouraged to hear that they include dark skies. I agree with her that it is imperative that the…14 Dec 2020HANSARD Dark SkiesI thank the hon. Gentleman for his wise intervention. Indeed, mental health, like so many aspects of health, is affected by sleep deprivation caused by light exposure at the wrong…14 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s conversion to the zealous promotion of free enterprise and the cause of small businesses, but would he extend his support to any new taxation…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I do not know how familiar the hon. Gentleman is with the process by which the courts look at the definitions for judicial review, but one of the dangers of trying to write them…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Lady appears to be advancing two arguments simultaneously. On the one hand, I understand the argument about clarity, which is indeed something that many people would look…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)Although this is interesting, I fear we are drifting a tiny bit off the new clause, which does not refer to geography. Given the Opposition’s desire to continue to shade in any…10 Dec 2020