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HANSARDElective TreatmentThe key issue seems to be the workforce. It is about trying to ensure that people do not leave the workforce now or do not leave it early. It is also about recruiting enough…08 Feb 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Chief of Staff AppointmentIt is a bit difficult, is it not, to argue that there will be greater accountability when at the first hurdle the man is not even here to be accountable? It is a preposterous…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is further to the point of order raised earlier by the shadow Home Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton,…07 Feb 2022HANSARDElective Care Recovery in EnglandMay I urge the Government to abandon this talk of a “war on cancer”? It was Richard Nixon’s term and it was thought to be outdated back then. To many people, when Ministers talk…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Members’ Code of Conduct ReviewI sort of understand the point that the Leader of the House is making, but why should the public not just know? Why should the public have to know about an ordinary MP going to…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Members’ Code of Conduct ReviewIt was not meant to be.03 Feb 2022HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Members’ Code of Conduct ReviewI am very upset with the hon. Gentleman, because he said that I had written some books but he did not say “some very good books, which are available in all good bookshops.”…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Members’ Code of Conduct ReviewThis is what I return to. For me, the key issue is the conflict of interests. If you are pursuing a financial interest when you speak in the Chamber, or when you are talking to…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Members’ Code of Conduct ReviewI am grateful to all those who contributed to the debate and look forward to seeing the Government’s written submission when it comes. Of course, I hope the Leader of the House…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Members’ Code of Conduct ReviewI see some nodding. For a start, I do not know how it could be policed. Some have suggested that MPs should fill in timesheets, but I cannot see that happening. Moreover, it seems…03 Feb 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseYesterday afternoon, I chaired a meeting here in Parliament with the Russian ambassador, which was interesting, to put it mildly, and obviously we talked about the crisis in…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateI know that the Chancellor is all pumped up, but this is pretty puny stuff, to be honest; £350 is not going to touch the sides of the problem for my constituents. Gas and…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Members’ Code of Conduct ReviewI beg to move, That this House has considered the Committee on Standards’ Review of the Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament. I am grateful to the members of the Committee on…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Members’ Code of Conduct ReviewThere has been confusion about that in the past, because we have not tended to encourage Members to register all their unremunerated interests whereas, oddly enough, Ministers do…03 Feb 2022HANSARDBusiness of the Houseindicated assent.03 Feb 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportThe thing is, this is who the Prime Minister is: “a serious failure to observe…high standards…failures of leadership and judgment…excessive consumption of alcohol…in a…31 Jan 2022HANSARDRussia: SanctionsThis is just weak, weak, weak. Honestly, since 2010, when the Conservatives came to power and they first started saying that they wanted to press the reset button with Putin, we…31 Jan 2022HANSARDRussia: SanctionsI have been!31 Jan 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI know the Leader of the House loves patronising Opposition MPs, but to be honest I have been patronised by much more illustrious people than him. Can we have a debate, because…27 Jan 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Planned Government BillI am sorry—the Minister is a nice chap—but we have been calling for this Bill for ages and ages. Time after time, Ministers come back to the House to say, “Yes, there’s going to…26 Jan 2022