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HANSARDEngagementsI know you are a keen historian, Mr Speaker, so I looked up the last time a Prime Minister missed two sessions in a row for other engagements. It was March 1996. I am very proud…12 Jul 2023HANSARDPrime MinisterI know that for the last couple of years the Deputy Prime Minister has been trying to prep Prime Ministers for PMQs, but these punchlines are dire—he really needs to go back to…10 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsThat answer is pathetic for all those people who are facing homelessness on the right hon. Gentleman’s watch. We will ban no-fault evictions—unlike the Conservative party. Jessica…05 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker, and can I associate myself with and thank you for your opening comments regarding our NHS? I thank all those staff who have worked and continue to work in…05 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsWe have had 13 years of Conservative failures. Homeowners watching that pathetic answer will be cringing: they are not celebrating the Government’s success; they are counting the…05 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsI know that the Deputy Prime Minister is not very good on facts, but the Tory party did crash the economy. He will know that, according to his own Government’s data, over 2…05 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsI asked a question about no-fault evictions; I was very clear on what the Labour party would do, but I cannot see us getting through a single one of these encounters without the…05 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsTalking about broken promises, house building is set to collapse to its lowest level since the war, rents and mortgages are soaring, home ownership is plummeting and over a…05 Jul 2023HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyI thank the Minister for that non-answer, but the public deserve to know. While he ducks and dives the question, I have discovered the answer. At a conference in Portsmouth last…22 Jun 2023HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyThank you; good morning, Mr Speaker. I frequently stand at this Dispatch Box and ask the Minister about value for taxpayers’ money, because his Department is responsible for…22 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]I think the Minister knows full well that I have read the Bill, and it is a real shame that in the conversations that my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall and I have had with…13 Jun 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [Lords]I start where the right hon. Member for Horsham (Jeremy Quin) left off, by saying thank you to all right hon. and hon. Members who have spoken today, in particular my hon. Friend…13 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsAll we are asking for is what the covid inquiry has asked for. Across the world, covid inquiries are well under way, while this Government hide information and shell out public…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe Deputy Prime Minister pretends that it is complicated, but it is simple: the Government set up the inquiry to get to the truth, then blocked that inquiry from getting the…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsI know that for the last couple of years the Deputy Prime Minister has been trying to prep Prime Ministers for PMQs, but these punchlines are dire—he really needs to go back to…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsSpeaking of the last election, the Tory manifesto promised to end the abuse of the judicial review. How is it going?07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsBritain cannot afford any more of the Conservatives. The right hon. Gentleman seems to have lost count: the answer is that only a quarter of the billions of pounds of taxpayers’…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsThere we have it: thousands of children missing; policy “under review” still. Let me ask the Deputy Prime Minister about something else that has gone missing. The Public Accounts…07 Jun 2023HANSARDMinisterial Code: Investigation of Potential Breach(Urgent Question ): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will make a statement on the criteria for launching an investigation into a potential breach of the…23 May 2023HANSARDMinisterial Code: Investigation of Potential BreachThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. This is an urgent matter, because our constituents expect those who make the rules to follow the rules, especially the…23 May 2023