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HANSARDFootball Governance BillThe regulator is asked to balance the financial sustainability of the club with heritage concerns and to make an either/or decision, under its purposes. In that scenario, could…23 Apr 2024HANSARDFootball Governance BillThe language in the Bill reflects the language on corporate governance in the Companies Act 2006, but there “corporate governance” includes the relationship that a board of…23 Apr 2024HANSARDFootball Governance BillIt is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), who has done much work on this issue, and to follow the wonderful speech earlier from my hon.…23 Apr 2024HANSARDFootball Governance BillThe Bill is reasonably clear that the regulator considers not only those rules, but any other rules that it wishes to write into the rulebook. This will give us for the first time…23 Apr 2024HANSARDRNLI BicentenaryThe hon. Gentleman is, I think, principally referring to the RNLI lifeboats at Dungeness and Littlestone, both in my constituency. There is a strong community support for the…26 Mar 2024HANSARDRNLI BicentenaryDoes the Minister agree that we should also be thankful for the on-land volunteers who support the RNLI, including Judith Richardson in my constituency, who has given more than 50…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Criminal Cases Review CommissionMy hon. Friend makes a very important point. If the CCRC would acknowledge that in some of its deliberations it has made factual errors or drawn wrong assumptions on the evidence…12 Mar 2024HANSARD Criminal Cases Review CommissionIn that case, there is also an acknowledgment of the wider implications of the miscarriage of justice. In the case of Mr Cleeland, he could have been wrongly convicted on the…12 Mar 2024HANSARD Criminal Cases Review CommissionThe hon. Gentleman makes a very good point about resources. Lack of resources may be a reason why some of the errors have occurred and why the CCRC has not considered some of the…12 Mar 2024HANSARD Criminal Cases Review CommissionI beg to move, That this House has considered the Criminal Cases Review Commission. It is a particular pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Henderson. I…12 Mar 2024HANSARD Criminal Cases Review CommissionI agree. The hon. Gentleman raises a point essential to the work of the Law Commission in reviewing whether enough cases are being referred or whether the CCRC is taking too much…12 Mar 2024HANSARD Criminal Cases Review CommissionI am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his remarks, and I am sure my constituent is as well. I have some particular asks for the Minister at the end of my speech and…12 Mar 2024HANSARD Criminal Cases Review CommissionI have one final intervention, and I am grateful to the Minister for taking it. In the piece of work that it is doing, the Law Commission itself acknowledges that Mr Cleeland has…12 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer made one announcement in the Budget statement that has not been referred to today but is relevant given the contributions made so far: the…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will in a moment. Yes, borrowing has gone up, and taxes have gone up to pay for it. That is an inevitable consequence of those two massive global events that took place: one…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsNo, I did not say that at all. What I said was that we picked up the pieces of an international banking crisis, with no plan from the previous Government for how that would be…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend is quite right: if anything, Labour wanted the lockdown to carry on longer, meaning that the debts would have been even higher. Had the Conservative party not put…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am confident that the robust plan that the Government set out for spending that money on other transport projects will deliver. What I would say about High Speed 2 in the…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIn one moment. What we have heard in today’s debate—particularly from the shadow Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves)—is that Labour would go down a…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI do not agree with that. Just looking at my own constituency, we have had two brand new secondary schools built, a big new special needs school, and primary schools as well.…07 Mar 2024