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HANSARD Financial Services BillDoes my right hon. Friend agree that the way the Government approached the Brexit negotiation means that there is literally no incentive for the EU to agree equivalence…13 Jan 2021HANSARD Financial Services BillI wish to focus on two areas: equivalence with the European Union for our financial services sector and financial crime. I also support the efforts to provide more protection…13 Jan 2021HANSARD Economic UpdateDoes the Chancellor believe that the £22 billion cost of Serco test and trace has been spent in a way that represents the best value for money?11 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe Secretary of State has today announced 23 more areas that will move into tier 4. Three quarters of the country is now in tier 4. How long before he looks at this again and can…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Online Harms ConsultationOnline activity is important to extremists of all kinds in furthering their aims. Fake news—disinformation—is the currency of authoritarian forces, undermining our democracy; and…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NAO Report on Government ProcurementMinister, please leave a couple of minutes at the end for the response.09 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NAO Report on Government ProcurementWill Members please leave promptly by the exit door on the left while observing social distancing?09 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NAO Report on Government ProcurementI am reducing the speaking limit to two and a half minutes in order to get everybody in.09 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NAO Report on Government ProcurementI shall begin by imposing a three-minute time limit on speeches, but I think it will have to go down to two before the end of the debate.09 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NAO Report on Government ProcurementThat was not a point of order.09 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NAO Report on Government ProcurementOrder. I am not going to allow interventions that long in future. There are many people on the call list, and it is not fair to them.09 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NAO Report on Government ProcurementOrder. Wind up the question, please.09 Dec 2020HANSARDCoronavirus VaccineTwo injections per person for everyone in the country is going to take an awful long time. The Prime Minister was hoping that it would be done by Easter. Does the Health Secretary…02 Dec 2020HANSARDFinancial Services Bill (Ninth sitting)To some extent, this is illustrated by the fact that the enhanced sentence was in a 2015 report but we are only just legislating for it now. Five years later, we are still only…01 Dec 2020HANSARDFinancial Services Bill (Tenth sitting)Of course I will, Mr Davies. The amendment is about having breathing space when one has got into this situation. I accept your guidance, obviously; I was merely trying to set out…01 Dec 2020HANSARDFinancial Services Bill (Tenth sitting)Absolutely. It is about success and belonging, and that is the kind of culture that the very sophisticated advertisers that push this kind of thing go for. They also advertise to…01 Dec 2020HANSARDFinancial Services Bill (Tenth sitting)I wish to spend a short amount of time congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow on the focus and experience she brings to this very important topic. As she said,…01 Dec 2020HANSARDFinancial Services Bill (Tenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that when it comes to debt and interest payments incurred—the price of having that debt—the concept of an unfair contract is far too lax on those who…01 Dec 2020HANSARDFinancial Services Bill (Ninth sitting)I suspect you have just wiped out most of my speech, Dr Huq. We want to hear from the Minister about the adequacy of having just this clause, and not a lot else, to deal with the…01 Dec 2020HANSARDFinancial Services Bill (Ninth sitting)My concerns mirror the comments that were made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton South East and by the SNP spokesperson, the hon. Member for Glasgow Central.…01 Dec 2020