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HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillHang on!14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillWhy?14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI am sorry, but I have been asking for money to make good the problems that we have had with flooding in the Rhondda all this year; I have not had a single penny out of the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Government announced the business for the next fortnight earlier today. As you know, the Committee on Standards, which I chair, has…10 Sept 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI was taught that your word is your bond, that if you sign something, you honour it, that if you swear something, you stand by it, and that absolutely essential to British values…10 Sept 2020HANSARDPalace of Westminster: Restoration and RenewalWhen he plans to provide an outline business case for the restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster.10 Sept 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseIt is going really well, isn’t it?10 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateNobody pretends that this is easy, but there are real problems in the system. The latest figures for test and trace in England are now out, and they are the worst figures since it…10 Sept 2020HANSARDPalace of Westminster: Restoration and RenewalOh dear! It is eight years since one report said that we had “a looming crisis” in this building, and four years since a Joint Committee of both Houses produced a report, on 8…10 Sept 2020HANSARDDraft Square Kilometre Array Observatory (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2020Thank you—I always want to call you Mr Leigh, but I suppose you are Sir Edward. It is an irony of being be-knighted that that is what happens. I am scandalised that the Minister…09 Sept 2020HANSARD Point of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. As you know, I chair the Standards and Privileges Committees. We have seven lay members on the Committee on Standards, but we have had a…03 Sept 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseWe haven’t got a vaccine.03 Sept 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI suppose that, as the writer said, the world has always had two kinds of families—the haves and the have-nots—but under coronavirus this has become even more acute. Some of the…03 Sept 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseHe has been downgraded!03 Sept 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseAnd a Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.03 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19Cancer is rapidly becoming an even bigger catastrophe than anything else. The number of new cancer patients presenting is down by more than a quarter this year. The number of…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI have been warning about Putin’s Russia for 19 years now, and calling for the Magnitsky sanctions for 10 years. What mystifies me is that Government Ministers still give out…22 Jul 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsFurther to the question by the hon. Member for Bolton West (Chris Green), may I push the Government on clinical trials and medical research? Medical research has saved hundreds of…21 Jul 2020HANSARD Restoration and RenewalOr the garden bridge.16 Jul 2020HANSARD Restoration and RenewalThere is more of a strategy than perhaps the hon. Gentleman is aware of, but one of the things that has plagued the House for some considerable time is that, because we have been…16 Jul 2020