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HANSARD Mahsa AminiThe irony is that this is a regime, which, since 16 September, has killed at least three further young people in an attempt to prove to its population that it did not kill Mahsa…11 Oct 2022HANSARDThe Growth PlanWhile the Chancellor was speaking so optimistically about growth, the City saw the FTSE 100 fall, the S&P 500 fall and the pound fall to the lowest level since 1985. Given that…23 Sept 2022HANSARD Shale Gas ExtractionThis cannot be justified on environmental or economic grounds. The investment allowance will give gas producers 91p in every pound invested in new frack pads. Warwick Business…22 Sept 2022HANSARD Energy Prices: Support for BusinessThe domestic scheme is based on a loan to be repaid out of future bills. If the business scheme is to be repaid in the same way, why would businesses not regard it as a deferred…22 Sept 2022HANSARD Health and Social Care UpdateLast month, my constituent Alan Suthers phoned 999 at 7 in the evening. His wife had suffered a stroke. He knew the signs—face, arm, speech, time—and the urgency of medical care.…22 Sept 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty The QueenThis morning I was walking to the station at Wembley Central and an Afghan lady stopped me. Her English was, let us say, not much better than my Pashto, but through her accent I…09 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy Costsrose—08 Sept 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseDelays to cancer treatment can be a matter of life and death, yet the Government are still not meeting seven of the nine urgent referral cancer targets. Can we have a debate in…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsThe Prime Minister has been careful to frame her guarantee in terms of her refusal to tax, but will she not have a problem explaining to the British people how a levy on their…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who is making a broad and apposite speech. He was challenged on the rate of tax that he believes is appropriate, but he will know that…08 Sept 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseThe children of our service personnel in Cyprus are being taught by supply teachers who were brought out under employment contracts with the Ministry of Defence. The MOD is now…21 Jul 2022HANSARD Net Zero Strategy: High Court RulingThe UK has the lowest tax take in the world from offshore oil and gas. Even with the temporary energy profits levy, the tax take will still be six percentage points lower than the…21 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe recent Carbon Tracker report set out the exposure of each financial sector across the world to stranded assets—over $1 trillion in total. Will the COP President be engaging…20 Jul 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentFormer Conservative Cabinet colleagues are publicly accusing each other of economic incompetence, of negligence in preventing fraud and even of being a Liberal Democrat, yet after…18 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI think the whole House understands why the Minister is unable or reluctant to commit the Prime Minister to attending COP15, but is it possible for him to commit that either the…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI certainly would not roll my eyes, and I pay tribute to the Scottish Government for setting up the natural capital convention. It must be almost 10 years ago now that the first…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI am delighted that my hon. Friend made that intervention at precisely that moment, because it enables me to talk about green finance, and the importance of involving the private…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI welcome the right hon. Gentleman’s intervention. He is right that we need to look at land restoration as one of the key indicators. It is particularly the case in sub-Saharan…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondIndeed. One of the things COP15 is grappling with at the moment is how to reconcile the different metrics that different countries use to assess their national biodiversity and…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondMy hon. Friend is entirely right. One of the constant problems, particularly in our overseas territories, which do not have the resources to be able to establish their own…14 Jul 2022