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HANSARDEngagementsThose of us from Staffordshire Moorlands are immensely proud of our beautiful area and unique identity. Can the Prime Minister guarantee that we will not be forced into a…04 Sept 2024HANSARDPlanning, the Green Belt and Rural AffairsI congratulate my hon. Friend on her speech. Does she agree that there would be full support on the Conservative Benches for measures to ensure that the supply chain for solar…19 Jul 2024HANSARD Debate on the AddressIt is an honour to be called in this debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. Let me start by thanking my constituents for putting their faith in me again and returning me to this place for a…17 Jul 2024HANSARD Space Industry (Indemnities) BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on his debut at the Dispatch Box. I must anecdotally mention that, when I was first elected, we had a visit from a space shuttle crew. Having real…17 May 2024HANSARDSchool Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) BillI am very struck by the comments that the Minister is making about the improvement in schools. Will he congratulate the schools in Staffordshire Moorlands, where since 2010, we…17 May 2024HANSARDSpecial Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief BillI declare an interest as a trustee of the organisation Arise, which does exactly that: we train sisters around the world to identify potential victims of forced labour and…17 May 2024HANSARDSpecial Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief BillI rise to speak briefly in support of the Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce). Putting the special envoy for freedom of religion or belief on…17 May 2024HANSARD Space Industry (Indemnities) BillBuzz Lightyear.17 May 2024HANSARD Licensing Hours Extensions BillI recall spending many hours as a Home Office Minister taking through statutory instruments for exactly this kind of occasion, even though nobody opposed them and everybody could…17 May 2024HANSARD Space Industry (Indemnities) BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on his Bill. Will he confirm that it will give the UK a real competitive advantage in the space industry? It seems to me that it will.17 May 2024HANSARDSpecial Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief BillI am so grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that. I know that we will all take note of it and look to promote it to our constituents. I will conclude by saying the UK already…17 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillShe has just popped out.15 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionWe did not consider that point, but we did look at the interaction with the judicial process and concerns about the possibility that a clever barrister might use the fact that a…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionMy right hon. Friend’s point relates to the proxy vote. The measures allow for a proxy vote, as I will come to in a moment. Members of the Committee expressed different views but,…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionMy right hon. Friend is right that excluding a representative’s voice from these Benches is a severe punishment for constituents. I will make a final point in my role as chair of…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionI am slightly confused. The hon. Gentleman is making excellent points—they are all good things that we should consider—but the motion is specific in saying: “The Panel will decide…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionI rise to speak as Chair of the Procedure Committee. We have looked at various iterations of risk-based exclusion since we were first presented with the Commission’s proposals in…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionI thank the hon. Lady for her question. As I said, this is a balanced judgment; there is no right or wrong answer. I am persuaded by many arguments in favour of exclusion on…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionThe right hon. Gentleman makes the point I referred to earlier: there are different points in the judicial process at which a charge or arrest is made in the different legal…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionI can never resist the hon. Gentleman, and that is why I will always give way to him. He makes a very good point. There may be a role for another process that does that, but for…13 May 2024