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HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondWill the Minister confirm that, even though COP15 is taking place in Montreal, the presidency is still with China and the Chinese Minister will be the president of the COP?14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI am delighted to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) and the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), whom I congratulate on…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseTwo days ago, my constituent sent me a photograph of his 15-year-old daughter Zahida. She was lying in her coffin, because she had drunk poison to avoid a worse fate, living under…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondDoes the hon. Member recall that we set out a biodiversity target to halt the decline in nature by 2010, and we set out a target again in 2010 under the Aichi targets to halt the…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI will give both ways, but not simultaneously. I will give way first to my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy).14 Jul 2022HANSARD Sri LankaThousands of Tamils in my constituency are deeply concerned. They look back to 2013, when the coalition Government supported the move to hold the Commonwealth Heads of Government…13 Jul 2022HANSARDAmbulance Services and National Heatwave EmergencyWhen discussing ambulance response and waiting times, the Minister kept using the phrase “month-on-month” improvements. Can she specify which months? She will know that it depends…13 Jul 2022HANSARDMinisters’ Severance PayI make it clear that I do not want to cast aspersions on any individual Minister. This morning I visited the care workers of the St Monica Trust in Bristol. One worker told me…11 Jul 2022HANSARD Employment Agencies and Trade UnionsThe Government seem to think that most workers are unskilled or uncertified, but agency workers are simply not there with the relevant skills and certification to perform their…11 Jul 2022HANSARD Employment Agencies and Trade UnionsDoes the hon. Member understand that as the normal remedy is an injunction, what he proposes might, ironically, make injunctions against strikes more difficult for employers to…11 Jul 2022HANSARD Employment Agencies and Trade UnionsWill the Minister give way?11 Jul 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseLast week, at business questions, I raised the issue of redundancies in the Royal Mail. I apologise to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, because I may have inadvertently misled the House…07 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsRwanda and the UK hosted the “Keeping 1.5 Alive” event in Kigali, but at the same time, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report said that the requirement—the…04 Jul 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseEach morning, Royal Mail delivery offices around the country are having to decide which streets to rotate and not get their letters. This is because of the wholesale restructuring…30 Jun 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police ServiceThe Minister’s statement was unworthy of this House, and even of the Minister. The danger is that it takes the focus of the debate away from the failings of the Metropolitan…29 Jun 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolThe emergency safeguarding measures are provided with a legal basis under the protocol, but under the protocol they can only be temporary. The problem the Secretary of State has…17 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesI pay tribute first of all to Her Majesty the Queen. It was a great sorrow to me that she was not able to give the Gracious Speech in person earlier this week. We have been…12 May 2022HANSARDBusiness QuestionYesterday at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Professor Lorand Bartels, professor of international trade law at the University of Cambridge, was asked about the…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI would like to stress to the Minister that this is not just an issue of people wanting to go on holiday. In my constituency—as you know, Mr Speaker, being so diverse as it…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesWill the Minister give way?12 May 2022