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HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [ Lords ]It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles, and to be able to address the issues in the Bill. I have to say, we have already strayed on to other areas. As I…10 Feb 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [ Lords ]I will respond briefly, as you would encourage me to do, Sir Charles. I listened closely to the Minister’s response, and while I struggled with some of the civil service…10 Feb 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [ Lords ]I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause is tabled in my name and those of many of my colleagues. In many ways, I will go back to where I started, by…10 Feb 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [ Lords ]I am grateful to my hon. Friend. By definition, all Opposition Front-Bench amendments are sensible—I will tell you the ones that are not later. My hon. Friend, too, brings great…10 Feb 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [ Lords ]That was pretty much the answer I expected, but I gently observe that, in a couple of years’ time, when the position is reversed, I suspect the Minister might not think that it…10 Feb 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HousePublic houses are an essential part of the fabric of the community up and down the country. However, I hear not just from my city of Cambridge but elsewhere that not only did they…03 Feb 2022HANSARDBees: NeonicotinoidsIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Roger. I am so grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard) for securing the…02 Feb 2022HANSARDBees: NeonicotinoidsThe Minister says the risk is judged to be sufficiently low. Could she say a little more about how that judgment was arrived at?02 Feb 2022HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management Scheme: Food ProductionIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Davies. I congratulate the hon. Member for The Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) on securing the debate and on outlining…01 Feb 2022HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management Scheme: Food ProductionI am glad the hon. Lady is committed to it, but that is not what the Secretary of State indicated. That goes back to a point well made by the hon. Member for South Dorset (Richard…01 Feb 2022HANSARDSupporting Young People into High-quality JobsDoes the Minister realise that many of the routes into quality jobs are in those very universities that she has been disparaging through her tax on so-called low-value courses?…31 Jan 2022HANSARD Advanced Research and Invention Agency BillThe Minister will know from previous discussions that the question of freedom of information has come up before. Would it not be much simpler just to make ARIA subject to the…31 Jan 2022HANSARDUK-EU Catch LimitsMore data may help in the negotiations, but data is no justification for the much-loathed catch app that the Government are imposing, which requires fishermen to guess the weight…27 Jan 2022HANSARDThrowline StationsIt is a particular pleasure to see you in the Chair today, Ms Ghani. I congratulate the hon. Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher), on behalf of the Petitions Committee, on…24 Jan 2022HANSARD Hare Coursing BillIndeed, I agree. While I am being horrible about the Government, I remind them that they almost abolished the National Wildlife Crime Unit a few years ago, and that it was only…21 Jan 2022HANSARD Hare Coursing BillI congratulate the hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire (Richard Fuller) on introducing the Bill. We were on the “Anglia Late Edition” last night, and here we are again today.…21 Jan 2022HANSARD Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Paul Holmes), who made an excellent speech. The account of his and others’ experience on licensing committees is…21 Jan 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseHigh energy prices have many consequences, but one perhaps not always foreseen is the effect on the producers of carbon dioxide, and in the run-up to Christmas there was a real…20 Jan 2022HANSARDCabinet Office5. When the Government plan to bring forward legislative proposals to reform public procurement.20 Jan 2022HANSARDLevelling Up: East of EnglandI congratulate the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) on securing the debate. His introduction has been very thorough, and I will not go over the same points. He and I work…18 Jan 2022