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HANSARDAnimal (Penalty Notices) BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I congratulate the hon. Member for Romford on the Bill, and I entirely support its principle. I have a brief question…08 Dec 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareMy local hospitals, Hammersmith and Charing Cross, and their staff are under huge pressure. Until two years ago, the Government’s plan was to demolish Charing Cross hospital, so…03 Dec 2021HANSARD Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, Etc.) BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on his Bill. Does he agree that it is a scandal that artists are getting perhaps a quarter of what the big record labels are getting from streaming…03 Dec 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)No, and even the vindaloo version—the full Ekins version—does not attack the doctrine of judicial review. It is saying that the courts sometimes resolve matters procedurally and…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)On a point of order, Mr Rosindell. Before we conclude our proceedings on the Bill, I wonder whether it might be appropriate to offer my thanks, on behalf of me and my colleagues,…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)With respect to the right hon. Gentleman, I do not agree that that is what is happening. Even if he had a point there, I am trying to make the point, by looking at the changes…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I give full credit to the right hon. Gentleman, who has taken the new clause, important and substantial though it is, and turned it almost into a Queen’s Speech. We will have a…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)We will see. Unfashionably, I will confine my comments to new clause 5, which restricts disclosure by public bodies and the use of oral evidence in judicial review proceedings to…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful for that intervention. I will come in a few moments to the powers of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, so let us see whether that satisfies the right hon.…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)Absolutely. Parliament is supreme and can will what it likes. That is very clear. Where the balance lies is what is in dispute here. The question is the appropriate role of the…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)That is enough, apparently—according to the Minister. Having gone through that process, the Government decided to push forward with focused reforms to Cart judicial reviews to…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who made several points there. I am coming on to deal with each of them. I suspect that his new clauses and comments are directed as…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)Further to that point of order, Mr Rosindell. May I associate the Labour party with the remarks of the Minister and Conservative Members about Sir David? I commiserate with the…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)The right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings takes us back into the important constitutional territory with which he started his consideration of the Bill. He also,…23 Nov 2021HANSARDMarriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) BillI am grateful for that intervention as well. It could be argued that this Bill is addressing a narrow and specific, albeit important, point, but the ramifications of the Bill go…19 Nov 2021HANSARDMarriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) BillThis has been a short, harmonious and positive debate, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) on her Bill. She has engaged with this topic for many…19 Nov 2021HANSARDMarriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I know from the time we spent together on the Select Committee on Justice that he is very passionate about these…19 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)rose—18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)Earlier, the Minister quoted with approval Mr Rebello’s evidence, which we took at the start of the Committee proceedings. The Minister agreed with him on the issue of…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)rose —18 Nov 2021