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HANSARDOffice for Budget Responsibility ForecastsThe Chief Secretary quoted the OBR review, which said: “The ultimate responsibility for the circumstances in which this vulnerability occurred” was “with the leadership of the…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI joined the Labour party because I believe in equality and justice, and those are two of the values that I use to judge any Budget. Does it create a more equal society, and is…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. He is absolutely right, and that money gets recycled throughout our economy. I think it is a scandal that more than 60% of…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will not. Parliament is supposed to be a gathering of the leaders of our community: rational and intelligent human beings capable of horizon scanning and guiding our country to…01 Dec 2025HANSARD COP30I thank my right hon. Friend for the leadership he has shown internationally and nationally over the past 20 years—it has been quite remarkable. I thank him for his statement…25 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayI welcome the assurance the Home Secretary has given to those who have achieved indefinite leave to remain and have settled status in this country. That certainty is really…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe speedy passage of environmental legislation through this House is not often a feature, so I thank the Leader of the House for the speedy way in which the biodiversity beyond…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction BillDoes the right hon. Gentleman agree that one of the most important things the Government can do at COP1 when it meets next year is to establish a regime with the other members of…17 Nov 2025HANSARD Carbon Budget Delivery PlanI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed) on securing the debate and introducing it in the way she did. To misquote Bill Clinton, “It’s a…12 Nov 2025HANSARD Carbon Budget Delivery PlanDoes the Minister recognise that the policy costs mentioned by the shadow Minister are a regressive tax, and that it may be better to put those on to general taxation? Of course,…12 Nov 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe long-awaited report by the Joint Intelligence Committee on the link between biodiversity, sustainability and national security is still not with us. Lord Dannatt and other…16 Oct 2025HANSARD Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction BillWill the right hon. Member give way?16 Oct 2025HANSARD Official Secrets Act Case: Witness StatementsMay I take the Minister back to the wording of the Act? It says that it is an offence to pass information that would be “directly or indirectly useful to an enemy”. It does not…16 Oct 2025HANSARD Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction BillIt has been almost 19 years since I first met Professor Alex Rogers at a two-day conference at Somerville College, Oxford, convened by the Global Legislators Organisation for a…16 Oct 2025HANSARD Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction BillThe right hon. Member is absolutely right to talk about the opening up of the Arctic and the geo-strategic threats that we face there. In that respect, would he support my earlier…16 Oct 2025HANSARD COP30: Food System TransformationSystems rely on diversity. Imagine a piano with 88 keys all tuned to middle C: Mozart would not have got very far. Yet what is happening to our global food system is a destruction…14 Oct 2025HANSARD COP30: Food System TransformationThe hon. Lady will recollect that, of that £11.6 billion, £3 billion was ringfenced for conservation. Does she agree that it is important that we do not lose that element of ICF?14 Oct 2025HANSARD COP30: Food System TransformationWill the right hon. Member give way?14 Oct 2025HANSARD COP30: Food System TransformationWill the Minister give way?14 Oct 2025HANSARDManchester Terrorism AttackAfter the vile attack in Manchester, many of us in this House will have spent time with Jewish friends last week celebrating the festival of Sukkot. It was particularly emotional…13 Oct 2025