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HANSARDAnimal CrueltyOne way of preventing animal cruelty would be to tighten the law on illegal foxhunting. Will Ministers undertake to introduce a system of monitoring before the foxhunting season…31 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019I am grateful to the Minister for that intervention and I welcome the statements that she has just made. However, I will return to the question of the equality impact assessment.…31 Oct 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis Drugs3. What steps he is taking to help ensure access to Orkambi on the NHS.29 Oct 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis DrugsIt may have taken a few years, but I warmly welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement and congratulate him on it. I echo his congratulations to all the campaigners,…29 Oct 2019HANSARDStrength of the UnionLast week, the Government threw the DUP and every Unionist in Northern Ireland under a bus—presumably the bus with lies on the side about NHS funding and the EU that the Prime…23 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. When we leave the European Union, we will also leave the auspices of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, so what plans do Ministers have to provide regulatory certainty…22 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill Ministers assure us that, in their desperation to sign any trade deal to justify their Brexit policy, they will not give a green light, or a nod and a wink, to President…17 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way so early in her speech. Can she explain how the last Labour Government were responsible for the subprime mortgage market in the…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesWill the right hon. Lady give way?16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesPretty much every school in Chester will suffer a budget cut next year, despite what the Conservatives say. Does my hon. Friend have full confidence in the mechanism that the…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesMay I start by welcoming the Government’s proposals to ban trophy hunting imports? Personally, I would like to go further and ban trophy hunting, but we would need some kind of…16 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressI am most grateful to the Prime Minister for giving way. I am listening to his exposition on the merits of free market capitalism. When was the transition to that position from…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2019May I say what a great pleasure it is to once again serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies? This statutory instrument is a result of the Government’s mishandling of the Brexit…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Census (Return Particulars and Removal Of Penalties) Bill [Lords]May I speak briefly to new clause 3, in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett)? It calls for the Minister and the Office for National Statistics to…07 Oct 2019HANSARD Census (Return Particulars and Removal Of Penalties) Bill [Lords]It is Labour’s hope that the ONS will listen to the case put by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston, and I will deal with that in a moment. The campaign for an…07 Oct 2019HANSARD Census (Return Particulars and Removal Of Penalties) Bill [Lords]We learn something new about procedure every day in the House—and I say that having been here for four and a half years. I return the Minister’s compliments. He has worked openly…07 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsCan the Prime Minister not accept that a customs post that is sited 20 miles away from a border still represents a hard border and therefore goes against the Good Friday…03 Oct 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWe were told by every leading climate scientist in the world that we had only 12 years to act to stop climate change. Unfortunately, that was almost a year ago, and the clock is…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Wrightbus (Ballymena)My friend the Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley) and I were in discussions over the summer about how we could promote the manufacturing sector in buses and low-emission buses.…30 Sept 2019HANSARDNo-deal Brexit: Short Positions against the PoundShort selling may have a role, but not when Government policy deliberately manipulates the currency to provide a big pay-out to individuals who have paid huge amounts of money…30 Sept 2019