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HANSARDHydrogen TransportOrder. I just make the point that there has clearly been a misunderstanding here. The hon. Lady thought she was going to make a speech. Everyone else thought she was intervening.…26 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the Secretary of State; we have completed our exchanges on the statement. In order to allow the safe exit of hon. Members participating in this item of business and the…26 Nov 2020HANSARDHydrogen TransportAn intervention should last about 30 seconds. Two minutes is a speech.26 Nov 2020HANSARDHydrogen TransportIf the Minister has already agreed, the hon. Lady can finish her intervention, but this is not an intervention—it is a speech.26 Nov 2020HANSARDHydrogen TransportOrder. I will allow the hon. Lady to finish, but it sounds like she is making a speech rather than intervening. She clearly has a point that she wishes to make to the Minister, so…26 Nov 2020HANSARD UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership AgreementWe are almost at the end of the debate, but if he will take only three minutes before I call the Opposition spokesman, I will call Mr Brereton.25 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateThat is not a matter for the Chair, because it is in order for the Leader of the House to arrange matters today as he thinks fit. If it were not in order, I could not have allowed…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI had—up until this moment—every intention of calling the hon. Gentleman. I saw when he came into the Chamber, and I had every intention of calling him. His name is on the…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateOrder. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman was not in the Chamber when I made it very clear that the matter that we are debating now is the matter before us. We are not debating other…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateOrder. That means that the hon. Lady should sit down. I am making a ruling. Let us make sure that we get the facts correct about what we are debating. The motion before us is…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateOrder. If there were any filibustering taking place in this Chamber, it would not be in order and I would stop it immediately. The right hon. Lady is perfectly in order. She has…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateOrder. I have already made it very clear, and I know the hon. Gentleman is one person who has certainly been in this Chamber all afternoon, that we are debating the matter before…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI have noticed that there are Government Members on the Government Benches. Who they are and what office they hold is not a matter for me. The Chamber is open to all Members to be…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateThere are various stages of a closure motion: the granting of the closure motion, the taking of the closure motion and the substantive question that may or may not then be put.…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI will come back to that point.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateYes, that is correct. Where were we? Valerie Vaz.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateOrder. What the right hon. Lady is doing, not what “you” are doing.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateYes, I am very happy to clarify that. As ever, the hon. Gentleman has made his point very well.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateOrder. While the right hon. Lady is on the subject of treating people equally, I appreciate that in her long speech she has taken an enormous number of interventions and covered…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Exiting the European UnionOrder. Just before the shadow Minister responds to the intervention, she said herself that she will now be turning to the substance of the matter before us. As much as it is…24 Nov 2020