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HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresThe Home Secretary says the system is broken. Well, yes, it is broken when we see the number of people taking dangerous trips across the channel rise year on year on year. Yes, it…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseWho?27 Oct 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseIf we could reopen the Rhondda tunnel, which goes from Blaencwm to Blaengwynfi, it would be the second-longest cycle tunnel in Europe and a great local asset in some of the…27 Oct 2022HANSARDDomestic Cyber-resilienceI warmly welcome the Minister and the rest of the team to their posts. I disagree with him, however, about one thing: the invasion did not start this year; it started in 2014.…27 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the Minister do a root-and-branch review of the transparency of publications by the Government on ministerial hospitality received? Quite often, those lists are not even an…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Exempt AccommodationThe Select Committee Chair is being his normal, moderate self, but what he is exposing is phenomenally scandalous and despicable activity by some people who are not just making a…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bracknell (James Sunderland) for telling me that he was going to raise this matter. I want…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI welcome the Minister to his post, because I know him to be a decent, intelligent and honourable man. He talks of diplomatic niceties, but the time for diplomatic niceties is…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseI want to ask about brain injury. Yesterday morning, I hosted a roundtable here with lots of people who have been engaged in the issue of concussion in sport. The Leader of the…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I urge you to launch an investigation into the scenes outside the entrance to the No Lobby earlier. As you know, Members are expected to…19 Oct 2022HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is further to the point of order made by the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim…19 Oct 2022HANSARD StandardsIndeed; that was the next point I was going to make. The hon. Gentleman is very good at doing that in Committee, incidentally, and persuading me of the view that I already hold,…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (Appointment)Me again. It would be fair to say that the search company found it quite difficult to get lots of good candidates to apply. In fact, significantly fewer applied than five years…18 Oct 2022HANSARD StandardsI start by being slightly pernickety, which is to say that I am not a right hon. Gentleman. I do not know whether the Lord President of the Council can do anything about that, but…18 Oct 2022HANSARD StandardsI see no reason why we should not simply put what is already a convention into, as it were, the statutes of the House—the Standing Orders. I support the motion and, looking around…18 Oct 2022HANSARD StandardsI am not an unreasonable man when it comes to these issues. The key thing is getting transparency. I am more anxious about getting the rest of the Committee on Standards’ changes…18 Oct 2022HANSARD Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (Appointment)Daniel Greenberg is quite phenomenal; my hon. Friend the Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden) knows him from his advice to the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. He has…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsNew research by the Disabilities Trust shows that 48% of homeless people have had a major brain injury, which may have led to their being homeless. Is it not time that we put to…17 Oct 2022HANSARDReplacement of the Chancellor of the ExchequerI am grateful, Mr Speaker. You know that for the past hour we have been listening to questions that were meant to be directed to the Prime Minister. The Leader of the House said…17 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateFor all the hand-wringing and soft soap, I am afraid that I do not think that this Chancellor is any better than the last one. [ Interruption. ] Well, he has been present at all…17 Oct 2022