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HANSARD Early Parliamentary General Election BillThis is just a technical question. If the general election is on 12 December, when will the new Parliament sit and when will we have a Queen’s Speech? When this was last done in…29 Oct 2019HANSARDShared Rural NetworkWell, I welcome what the right hon. Lady has had to say today, but the people I get very fed up with are those from mobile phone companies, because they will quite often say that…28 Oct 2019HANSARDShared Rural NetworkWe might all be doing so.28 Oct 2019HANSARDMajor Incident in EssexAll too often, there is another layer of cruel injustice, which is that families in very poor districts—for instance, in Vietnam—have done everything in their power, including…28 Oct 2019HANSARDLow-level CrimesIt feels, unfortunately, as though the police and the Crown Prosecution Service still think that an assault on an emergency worker is a low-level crime and that, frankly,…28 Oct 2019HANSARD Business of the Houseindicated dissent .24 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am no farmer, though I used to own a farm in the Rhondda for a few years, where we had sheep.21 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My right hon. Friend tempts me to tell the story about my donkey, called Dusty, who died. It is a very sad story, but I am not going to tell it—nor that of the one-eyed sheepdog…21 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Perhaps I should have stopped my speech before giving way; my hon. Friend could have made a speech of her own. I shall not, at this moment, be as ungenerous as she has been, if…21 Oct 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI make no argument against us sitting on Saturday, but it is inconvenient for many people who have families. Unfortunately, the nursery is not able to be open to ensure that…17 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressThe hon. Lady mentioned the police. As she knows, in the last Session of Parliament, we brought forward—on a unanimous, cross-party basis—new legislation to protect the police and…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressOne of the most depressing sets of conversations I have had in the last few days is with Members who have decided not to stand at the next general election; a number of them have…14 Oct 2019HANSARD Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards AuthorityI think I argued at the beginning, when the whole thing was set up, that the two should be in separate organisations. I understand that there is a model of regulation, which we…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesMay I ask about the political declaration, which is of as much concern to many of us as other elements of the withdrawal agreement? The former Prime Minister was quite right to…07 Oct 2019HANSARDOperation Midland Independent ReportOne of the worst things about deliberately false, vexatious or overexaggerated allegations is not only that the person against whom the allegations are made is put through hell…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe Minister has used words such as “mercy” and “clemency”, which are fundamentally, in the end, religious words. I would have thought that, to many of the people who run Iran,…07 Oct 2019HANSARD Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards AuthorityI will give way, but I was hoping to come to an end very soon.07 Oct 2019HANSARD Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards AuthorityI, too, commend the Minister for his latest outing at the Dispatch Box. Many Members of the House think of him as a very nice man, and it is nice to see him here with us today. I…07 Oct 2019HANSARDIn-work PovertyThe thing is, it is really difficult for many families in my constituency on the minimum wage, as they may have to travel quite substantial distances to be able to work, while…07 Oct 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThat’s not true.03 Oct 2019