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HANSARDFirst-time Buyers: MortgagesA core tenet of our belief is to help everyone on to the housing ladder, so what assessment has the Minister made since the growth plan about helping people and areas to build…11 Oct 2022HANSARD Liver Disease and Liver Cancer: DiagnosisIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Margaret Ferrier) on securing this debate…11 Oct 2022HANSARDFirst-time Buyers: Mortgages6. If he will take steps to help ensure mortgage products are available for first-time buyers in the context of the reduction in stamp duty announced in the growth plan 2022.11 Oct 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThere are not really enough hours in the day to speak about fishing and farming. With that in mind, will the Leader of the House please give Members more time in questions to the…08 Sept 2022HANSARD Support for Local Food InfrastructureIt is a pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for North Thanet (Sir Roger Gale). I agree with absolutely everything he said. The Campaign to Protect Rural England…08 Sept 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Agriculture Act 2020 states that the Secretary of State has to come before Parliament every three years to report on the UK’s food security. Will he do so this autumn?08 Sept 2022HANSARD Coastal CommunitiesI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Sally-Ann Hart) on securing this debate. I pity Members of Parliament who do not get to represent coastal…08 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI am delighted to hear the hon. Gentleman ask Whitehall and Westminster to sing a better tune and work better together. Truly, he will be a parliamentarian here for many years to…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his book, which was a page-turner. Will he not take comfort, as I do, from what was said by the Prime Minister a few days ago to the…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillDoes the right hon. Member recognise that we have started negotiations on the CPTPP and with the Gulf Co-operation Council, and that we have started negotiations and to look into…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI think that my hon. Friend and I met when the South Korean Trade Minister came to speak to members of the International Trade Committee. He said that the benefit of the roll-over…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThe hon. Gentleman is making an interesting point about climate issues and accords. The problem that I have with the suggestion he is making is that if we asked every country to…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThe hon. Gentleman is bamboozling us with some of the statistics, but is it not the case that in every trade agreement signed either by the UK or by other countries, every…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; I am honoured. I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil), the second most humble crofter who is at…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThat is a perfect example. What we saw in Qatar was small compared with Saudi Arabia’s industry—a 30,000-strong herd milking parlour versus one in Saudi Arabia for a…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillMy hon. Friend is making a truly brilliant speech: it is a perfect reminder of why we should have had this debate during the CRaG process, and it shows why we might have wanted a…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThe hon. Lady opened her remarks with this point and I am sorry to come back to it, but she asks what benefit there is to small businesses. This is a 100% removal of tariffs. That…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillSince my hon. Friend is making a point on food security, I will take this opportunity to see whether she might be open to join the somewhat growing campaign to see a national food…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThe Minister is doing an excellent job at the Dispatch Box and is making a very good speech, but given what has been said in this debate, when the Committee has done a report on…06 Sept 2022HANSARDAustralia-UK Free Trade Agreement: Scrutiny(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade if she will make a statement on the Australia-UK free trade agreement and the scrutiny process.19 Jul 2022