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HANSARD Point of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I seek your advice? Further to the exchange between the Leader of the House and the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Patrick Grady) on…15 Dec 2020HANSARD North Staffordshire Potteries Towns: Levelling UpIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I think it is the first time that you have chaired a sitting I have taken part in, so it is an honour. It is also an…01 Dec 2020HANSARD North Staffordshire Potteries Towns: Levelling UpMy hon. Friend will appreciate that the VAT cut on hospitality does not apply to alcohol, so businesses that are able to open are struggling. If they are open, their fixed costs…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI give way to the august right hon. Gentleman and member of the Committee.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateThe right hon. Lady is being incredibly generous with her time, and this is most certainly a full debate—I think we can all agree on that. Will she comment on remarks made by the…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I was going to come on to say that, but he gives me the chance to say it now. The House authorities have worked so hard and have made…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI give way to another august member of the Committee.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI thank the hon. Gentleman; I call him my hon. Friend, because he serves as the Committee’s vice-Chair and stands in for me when I am unable to participate, as I was not when I…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI give way to another august member of the Committee.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI give way to my hon. Friend.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point. It was slightly embarrassing, I think, for members of the Committee to have to say that, after saying that we did develop, at pace,…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateThe hon. Lady makes an important point. We did not really test or try that hybridity in Bill Committees, which might well have been possible. Given what the House authorities have…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point. I would not want to speculate about what goes on between the usual channels—I suspect the usual channels were slightly surprised by…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI give way to another august member of the Committee, the hon. Member for Blaydon (Liz Twist), and then I will give way to SNP Members.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI absolutely agree with that point.24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI, too, want my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham and many other clinically extremely vulnerable colleagues to be able to take part in debates, but the…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI thank my hon. Friend, who has just joined the Procedure Committee. I was going to make exactly the same point, because my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton has…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateOnce again, I say to my hon. Friend that the Government could accept the amendment. However, I do not see why the Government would have to accept an amendment on House business,…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateMy hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew) is perhaps the first Deputy Chief Whip to have voted against his own Government and kept his job, so I know that he will put…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI thank the hon. Gentleman. I urge my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House to listen to what is being said, and to what was said in the urgent question last week and in the…24 Nov 2020