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HANSARDDraft Internal Market Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021Is my hon. Friend aware not only that employment rights and protections are in grave jeopardy with the inclusion of a sunset clause, but that all the case law will, in effect, be…01 Dec 2022HANSARDEngagementsQ6. It was sad to see in a video from his Oxford days the future Prime Minister saying that he hadn’t a single friend who was working class. He is not likely to make any soon,…30 Nov 2022HANSARDEnergy SupportThe north-east of England process industry cluster has advised me that major companies on Teesside currently obtaining their energy via a private wire relationship do not qualify…29 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Biocidal Products (Health and Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2022The Minister is being generous in giving way. Given the commitments she has made this afternoon, is she able to give any indication to the Committee as to the increase in the…23 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Biocidal Products (Health and Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2022Given what the Minister just said, does she see it as a matter of regret that we have lost over 400 HSE inspectors since 2010? During the covid crisis, their roles had to be…23 Nov 2022HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsIt is interesting to follow the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh); I look forward to a conversation with him after Mass about how his speech accords with…21 Nov 2022HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsI thank my constituency neighbour for giving way. I think he will find that the scheme has been renewed—that is the information that has come through to me. He may want to check…21 Nov 2022HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsI am very grateful to my constituency neighbour for giving way. If that mini-Budget was so disastrous and ill-thought through, why did he support it?21 Nov 2022HANSARDBritain’s Industrial FutureI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I have heard what he has to say, but what does he say to the people of Teesside about his Government’s inaction in 2015? The Italian…15 Nov 2022HANSARDBritain’s Industrial FutureThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. In 2015, under the Tories, more than 150 years of steelmaking in my part of the world came to a shuddering halt with the closure of the SSI blast…15 Nov 2022HANSARD Police Service: HMI ReportMuch has been said at the Government Dispatch Box about the need for integrity, but that has to extend not only to police recruits but to those who purport to govern them. Given…03 Nov 2022HANSARD Abuse and Deaths in Secure Mental Health UnitsI thank colleagues across the House for their kind remarks. We must also pay tribute to the parents, who have so resolutely stuck at this campaign for two and a half years, and we…03 Nov 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresDuring her first disastrous spell in the role, the Home Secretary ignored legal advice from her officials that explicitly set out the unlawfulness of the inhumane treatment of…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. At the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Dr Gary Caldwell, a marine scientist at Newcastle University, expressed…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Great British RailwaysThe former Transport Secretary was very keen to try to steal Labour’s clothes with the announcement of Great British Railways, no doubt mindful that the overwhelming majority of…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House urge the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to come to the House next week and make a statement about the appalling ecological…13 Oct 2022HANSARDDraft Chemicals (Health and Safety) Trade and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2022I was not intending to speak, but, just from listening to what the Minister has had to say, does it not occur to her that we, as the authors of the REACH—registration, evaluation,…07 Sept 2022HANSARDSewage PollutionWe have an ecological disaster with massive numbers of dead crustaceans, porpoises and seals washing up on the beaches around the Tees bay, hammering what is left of our fishing…06 Sept 2022HANSARDEngagementsQ11. Under cover of the pandemic we have seen a massive shift in wealth from the poorest to the richest. A partying Prime Minister and a law-breaking rich list Chancellor have…25 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. The much-heralded diamorphine assisted treatment programme in my constituency has been running for two and a half years and produced some remarkable results, including a…24 May 2022