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HANSARDEngagementsQ1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 18 October.18 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsMay I associate myself, and the whole of my party here, with what has been said about the horrors and the unfolding tragedy of last night’s bombing of the hospital in Gaza? The…18 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe wealth of billionaires has skyrocketed over the past decade, while average working households in the UK have the lowest living standards since the 1950s. While hard-working…13 Sept 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 13 September.13 Sept 2023HANSARD Flying SchoolsI am trying to reflect on what the Minister has said about VAT, and specifically on one of the clear points that has been raised. We are at a competitive disadvantage because we…12 Sept 2023HANSARD Flying SchoolsI thank the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) for securing this debate that allows us to discuss what is a wide-ranging and important topic, given the…12 Sept 2023HANSARDEngagementsI am happy to change the offending word to “bottom”. Given that the Tories and Labour are two cheeks of the same bottom, offering no change, no vision and no hope, does the Prime…06 Sept 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ15. Every year the SNP Scottish Government mitigate against the cruellest of Westminster policies by spending £84 million on supporting hard-working families against the brutal…06 Sept 2023HANSARDClimate Finance: Tackling Loss and DamageI beg to move, That this House has considered climate finance for tackling loss and damage. July was the hottest month in global history. In three months the world will gather in…05 Sept 2023HANSARDClimate Finance: Tackling Loss and DamageNot only do I completely agree, but I suspect my papers have been leaked because I was about to come on to that point. I completely agree that new and additional finance is key…05 Sept 2023HANSARDClimate Finance: Tackling Loss and DamageI thank the right hon. Member for a really valuable intervention. She reminds me of the startling numbers that I was given in 2017, at the first COP I attended, by a climate…05 Sept 2023HANSARDClimate Finance: Tackling Loss and DamageI am listening to an exhaustive list of the things that the Government claim they are doing, but I have not once heard that there is any new additional money for loss and damage…05 Sept 2023HANSARDClimate Finance: Tackling Loss and DamageI am not quite sure where to begin, because we covered such a range of points, so let me begin with how I feel. I feel insecure, scared and concerned for the generations of today…05 Sept 2023HANSARDClimate Finance: Tackling Loss and DamageI thank my hon. Friend for a really valuable point. When I go out in the world today and speak to organisations and bodies in both Europe and the US, they are, frankly,…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI am incredibly proud that students from around the world choose to come to study in my city of Dundee at one of our two world-class universities; however, the newly published…20 Jul 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseWholesale energy prices for suppliers may have returned to normal, but Bonar Yarns in my Dundee constituency, which has produced specialist textiles and supplied some of the…06 Jul 2023HANSARDCommonwealth Parliamentary AssociationI fully take on board the hon. Member’s explanation of how dealing with covid was a success in the early days, but, as we saw, as time went on, it began increasingly to fail.…06 Jul 2023HANSARDCommonwealth Parliamentary AssociationCommonwealth Day 2023 marked a new chapter in the age of decolonisation: a new monarch with a new perspective towards the Commonwealth. The annual theme was “Forging a sustainable…06 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ10. I think everyone in this House can recognise that my city of Dundee is a city to be proud of. It has world-leading universities, pioneering businesses and a determined SNP…05 Jul 2023HANSARDIranIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts, and I thank the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Brendan Clarke-Smith) for securing this debate today. His contribution to…07 Jun 2023