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HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. The corporate responsibility Minister has spoken about the Horizon Post Office scandal and the need to compensate victims properly. He will agree that the object of the…11 Jan 2022HANSARDDowning Street Garden EventIf ever there was a time to be candid with this House, it is now. I am asking the Paymaster General a question, not anybody else. He did not answer my hon. Friend the Member for…11 Jan 2022HANSARDDowning Street Garden EventYou have a duty to this House.11 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagements8. Statutory sick pay is worth £3 a week less in real terms compared with the start of the pandemic, and millions of workers are being forced to choose between isolating and…05 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic HealthWill the Secretary of State give way?14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthMy hon. Friend is setting out his response to these proposals with great care. On the vexed issue of mandatory vaccinations, does he acknowledge that 97% of those in my trust have…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthDoes my hon. Friend agree that if these measures will come into force at the beginning of April and the parties concerned are to participate in a framework agreement for their…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. If he is going to consider those matters will he also consider the following issue? The virus spreads if people are not…14 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillOn cost efficiency, does the hon. Member not agree that, considering the cost of emergency admissions to hospital and the use of intensive care and expensive medicines that do not…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillThat is not this—10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillThere is nothing in this Bill that will substitute our view and our professional assessment for that home medical practitioner. I want to congratulate the Members on the…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillThe hon. Member is eloquent, but he is making a case for the commission. As the explanatory note says, the commission would be “required to consider the role of evidence other…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillThe hon. Gentleman is failing to grasp that we have done it. The change has been made. What I am hearing time and again from Government Members is them rewinding and revisiting…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillMy hon. Friend is making a wonderful summary and presentation. Is she as frustrated as I am by some of the contributions that have been made today, which seem to suggest that we…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillI confess to having been depressed many a time in this Chamber, but after that last contribution I cannot remember feeling as low as I do at this moment. [ Interruption. ] I ask…10 Dec 2021HANSARD Medical Cannabis (Access) BillMy hon. Friend is making a fabulous speech and I am sure people will study it after the event. He mentioned Mike Barnes. Does he agree with me and Mike Barnes that the children…10 Dec 2021HANSARDDowning Street Christmas Parties InvestigationFrom Collette in Middlesbrough: “During lockdown, my 74-year-old mam was really lonely and depressed, but obeyed all the rules, as we all did. She sadly passed away in January…09 Dec 2021HANSARDRail Investment and Integrated Rail PlanI am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, but he knows and I know that his predecessors committed to the full delivery of HS2. That was the way that the full…08 Dec 2021HANSARDRail Investment and Integrated Rail PlanWill the Secretary of State give way?08 Dec 2021HANSARDRail Investment and Integrated Rail PlanMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. The entire purpose of HS2, which was supported by successive Governments—the Prime Minister stood at the Dispatch Box and supported it…08 Dec 2021