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HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and Modellingrose—18 Jan 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and ModellingI beg to move, That this House has considered forecasting and modelling during covid-19. It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I speak not to bury…18 Jan 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and ModellingI quite agree, and I thank my hon. Friend for that, but I am deeply grateful to Raghib and other people for speaking out. Just for the record, the communist Susan Michie, who is…18 Jan 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and ModellingWhere does my hon. Friend believe that body should sit: within BEIS or a separate scientific institution?18 Jan 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and ModellingI am deeply impressed by all this stuff— I do not quite understand what my hon. Friends are talking about, but it sounds fantastic. However, there is a counterfactual. The…18 Jan 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and ModellingShame!18 Jan 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and ModellingI do not appreciate being called “far right”.18 Jan 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and ModellingWill the hon. Member give way?18 Jan 2022HANSARD Covid-19: Forecasting and ModellingI think with one exception that was a very good debate. We all agree that we need good science, and we all agree that scientists have power, like politicians. We have the right,…18 Jan 2022HANSARD UkraineLike the Defence Secretary, I read President Putin’s essay “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” this summer. In it he clearly does not recognise Ukraine in its…17 Jan 2022HANSARDForeign Interference: Intelligence and SecurityTwo years ago, I wrote a paper on how to bring in a foreign lobbying law into the UK—the Security Minister has a copy of that. With great respect to the Home Secretary, I think…17 Jan 2022HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillThe hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly sensible point, but his argument that we can do it all with renewables is a bit of a cop-out. We are not doing so. I want tidal energy for the…10 Jan 2022HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI am half German and I think my German relatives would confirm that they have wind in Germany. [Interruption.] And the Baltic sea—thank you very much indeed. There is no reputable…10 Jan 2022HANSARDAwarding of Defence ContractsWight Shipyard Co. in my constituency recently raised with me its concern about the niche criteria and very short timeframes for the Ministry of Defence’s special purpose ship…10 Jan 2022HANSARDAwarding of Defence Contracts10. What steps he is taking to ensure that contracts awarded by his Department are (a) subject to open competition and (b) accessible to domestic contractors.10 Jan 2022HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but unfortunately we lost a decade, from 1997 to 2007, when nuclear was taken off the table. Because of the timescales, which he is well…10 Jan 2022HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillThe purpose of small modular nuclear reactors—we are going to be building 10 or 15 of them—is to enable us to bring the price down. Is my right hon. Friend also concerned that 18…10 Jan 2022HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI rise to speak to amendments 1 and 2. If I have time, I will get to amendment 9, but I will speak for no more than five minutes. I hear what people say about the importance of…10 Jan 2022HANSARDSecond Homes and Holiday Lets: Rural CommunitiesI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on having secured this important debate. It is clear from some of the questions that have been asked, and from what the hon. Gentleman is saying,…06 Jan 2022HANSARD RussiaIt is great to hear a Foreign Secretary speaking with such clarity, so I thank my right hon. Friend. When it comes to our two allies, France and Germany, may I ask the following:…06 Jan 2022