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HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthI am sure that, like me, the hon. Lady spends a lot of time visiting schools in her constituency. I am struck not only by the standard of teaching in that area, but by the…18 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss). I rise to support many of the Bills in the Queen’s Speech. In particular, I wish to support the…18 May 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolDepending on which newspaper I have read over the past two days, I can understand either that the Government want to tear up the protocol altogether or that they see this proposal…17 May 2022HANSARDChannel 4 PrivatisationMy hon. Friend is aware of my profound scepticism about the wisdom of the action the Government are taking on this matter. I keep reading that the Prime Minister wants Departments…27 Apr 2022HANSARDFootball GovernanceI congratulate the Minister, particularly on his wisdom in recognising that when faced with a series of suggestions from my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford…25 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. One of the most important national assets that needs protecting in this Bill and elsewhere is our reputation for serious…19 Apr 2022HANSARD P&O FerriesI congratulate my right hon. Friend on the package of measures he has announced, and I very much hope they are effective. One of the immediate effects of P&O’s disgraceful action…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI do; my hon. Friend makes an extremely profound point. We are facing a crisis of a type we have not faced before, and we should use this opportunity to look at ourselves and our…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI find myself in rare, perhaps unique agreement with the hon. Gentleman on that point. I am sure that he and I will not want to see that happen too often. Returning to the…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillMy hon. Friend, a former leader of Hillingdon Council, will be more expert on this matter than I am. In various phases, I have been on either side of the argument between the Home…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI rise to support Lords amendment 11, but I want to start by thanking Ministers for their flexibility in accepting the logic of the amendment I moved at an earlier stage to extend…22 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraine Sponsorship SchemeI very much welcome this announcement, and I am grateful to the Secretary of State and the Government for listening to voices from across the House who have been urging this kind…14 Mar 2022HANSARD Refugees from UkraineI welcome the extra flexibility that my right hon. Friend has introduced into the system, particularly the capacity to take biometrics in this country, which she will know many of…10 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraine: Urgent Refugee ApplicationsI hate to harp on about the phrase “at pace”, but can the Minister give some indication whether it will be weeks or months before the humanitarian sponsorship route is open?…08 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineIn a letter that I and more than 40 colleagues from the one nation caucus wrote to the Prime Minister yesterday, we asked for a flexible and pragmatic approach to the problem,…01 Mar 2022HANSARD Levelling UpI very much welcome this White Paper—a genuinely one-nation Conservative document. I particularly commend my right hon. Friend and his colleagues on the health commitment it…02 Feb 2022HANSARD BBC FundingLike many of the best things in this country, the BBC licence fee may not work in theory but works really well in practice, as shown by very low levels of evasion. There are, of…17 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding SafetyMy right hon. Friend is entirely correct that this is a substantial step forward, and he and the Minister for Housing, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tamworth (Christopher…10 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcements today. One of the best things we could do, both for public health and for our hard-pressed hospitals, is to make sure that…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI do not wish to get into wider issues in the immigration system, as at the moment I am most concerned with giving people a route to get to this country apart from the asylum…07 Dec 2021