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HANSARDWater BillWill my hon. Friend give way?28 Mar 2025HANSARDWater BillI will make some progress and then give way, and I will also try to keep the volume down a little bit. This is about the maintenance of a political and economic model that was…28 Mar 2025HANSARDWater BillI thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and I will be very brief. There is a crisis of democracy, and as my hon. Friend the Member for North East Hertfordshire (Chris Hinchliff)…28 Mar 2025HANSARDWater BillI will just make some progress, and then I will give way. I am on a roll. Let me tell the House where the money has not come from for these past 35 years. It has not come from…28 Mar 2025HANSARD Welfare ReformWhen the Government made the decision to go down this route, did they understand the pain and difficulty that it will cause millions of our constituents who are using food banks…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend the Minister for all the support he has given the University of East Anglia to set up its dental school, but he will be aware that all those shiny new…11 Feb 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Local GovernmentI congratulate the Secretary of State and her Ministers on the work they have done on this matter, and on the exhaustive consultations that have taken place between MPs, local…05 Feb 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]That is my personal view; I put that on the record. These companies have legal obligations first and foremost to their shareholders, which means short-term profit maximisation.…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I do recognise that, and not for one second am I calling for nationalisation, which is the model the right hon. Member was talking about. There is a plethora of possibilities for…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I agree with the hon. Lady. I hope her party comes to its senses at some point—maybe in the same way that my party needs to come to its senses—and accept that some form of public…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. First, I thank EFRA Ministers for the work they have done on this Bill, and for everything they have…28 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillI thank the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage), the promoter of the Bill, for the hard work that she has done to get to this point—it has, I believe, been a baptism of…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillWe all understand that it can be difficult for Members to come to the House on Thursdays and Fridays; we need to spend time in our constituencies, and many people also have family…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillObviously, I like to expand the borders of Norwich South as far as possible. I will caveat that by saying that it is a big issue in my constituency and many of my constituents…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillNo, I will make some progress. At that point, I understood that it is entirely possible for us to hit our climate targets as we rip up and destroy a 10,000 or 50,000-year-old…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillI thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, and that was a great pun—“fly in the face.” This decision has not been taken. I, for one, do not believe that it is compatible to have…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillI thank my hon. Friend for that contribution, and indeed for the work she has done on climate and nature throughout her political career. Of course I agree. Everyone understands…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillI need to conclude, because I believe other Members want to take part. We have to understand that there are people who have done very well from this growth. The problem with…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillI will make progress. When we get that GDP growth in deeply unequal societies, it is those in the top 1% or top 5% who accrue the benefits. A working-class woman in one of the…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]Listening to the right hon. Lady and the excuses that the previous Government have made for what they did, it seems that what you were doing was equivalent to polishing one of the…16 Dec 2024