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HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dudley South (Mike Wood), and I share his commitments to and support for the revision of how we do business rates. However, my…12 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the Secretary of State commit today to making sure that every single decision taken in his Department is assessed for whether it contributes to or mitigates climate change?12 Mar 2020HANSARD CoronavirusI have two questions for the Secretary of State. I thank him for his commitment to keeping this place open, which I agree is very important. What guidance will the Secretary of…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Women in the Commonwealth: Trade and InvestmentThank you. I am grateful to the Minister.11 Mar 2020HANSARD Women in the Commonwealth: Trade and InvestmentIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stafford (Theo Clarke) for securing this important debate and for the way she…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Women in the Commonwealth: Trade and Investmentrose—11 Mar 2020HANSARD Women in the Commonwealth: Trade and InvestmentI am not going to make a point of order, Mr Hosie. I am going to ask the Minister if he would reconsider that uncharacteristically ungenerous characterisation of what I said. I…11 Mar 2020HANSARDTurkey-Greece Border: RefugeesThe Minister has mentioned resettlement, and I am glad to hear the commitment to 5,000 places under the resettlement scheme, but I have two questions. What are his Government…10 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Twelfth sitting)I rise to say on behalf of the shadow European affairs team—in the spirit of transitioning from one state of affairs to another—that Labour Front-Benchers have a lot of sympathy…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. On behalf of the Labour Front Bench—both the shadow DEFRA and European affairs teams—this is an offer. The new clause is…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Twelfth sitting)What a wonderful invitation. I was mentally running through Government Committee members and trying to think of a geographical indicator in the constituency of each one, and I…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Eleventh sitting)I will make a few brief remarks on behalf of the shadow European affairs team. As we leave the European Union, we want to make sure we do not lose anything in terms of our high…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Twelfth sitting)We on the Labour Front Bench would say that the new clause makes a reasonable request. There are lots of ways in which we could try to deal with the problem of divergence and the…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Eleventh sitting)Is the Minister not making my case that the WTO is therefore the lowest common denominator? It is a real problem that we have ended up heading in this direction.05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Eleventh sitting)I completely understand that agriculture is devolved and compliance is reserved. That is why our amendment would require consultation to take place. It would not be a veto on the…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Eleventh sitting)Good. Excellent. We have that on the record. I happen to like supranational rules—provided that nation states have debated and agreed to them—which advance the course of human…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank the Minister for responding to our probing amendment with more information, as I had hoped she would. I reserve judgment on her assertion that what she described all works…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Eleventh sitting)I rise to speak—I am double hatted—not as a Whip, but as a shadow Minister with responsibility for European affairs, formerly Brexit, which I still am at the moment. I shall speak…05 Mar 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Eleventh sitting)I wish to make a few remarks on amendments 32 and 33. We will not support amendment 32 because it provides a veto for Scotland on the reserved matter of WTO compliance. The hon.…05 Mar 2020HANSARD Asylum Decisions (Support for Refugees)I beg to move, That this House has considered support for refugees after receiving an asylum decision. The asylum process is anxiety-inducing and arduous, but for many the intense…04 Mar 2020