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HANSARD Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) BillI am sure the whole House is grateful to the Minister for his extended and detailed account of clause 1. It was a gentle rural ramble that suddenly finished with a sprint, so a…28 Jan 2020HANSARD Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) BillI am sure that we will return to this issue over the coming weeks and months. We hear what the Government say, but the simple way of resolving the matter would be to put something…28 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. The West Suffolk Hospital has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. I guess all Members try to keep their fingers on the pulse of their local hospitals, but does not the…28 Jan 2020HANSARD Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) BillI suspect that discussion will continue, but the hon. Gentleman makes an important point. As I said on Second Reading, we have replaced the certainty in the system. The only…28 Jan 2020HANSARD Automated Facial Recognition SurveillanceThe approach of trying it out and seeing how it goes is exactly the wrong way to maintain public trust. Many of my constituents use King’s Cross railway station, and last year…27 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. My constituent Anna Ward has been waiting five months for a PIP home assessment, but it has been cancelled twice at very short notice. Atos tells me that currently there are…27 Jan 2020HANSARDDirect Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) BillIt is a pleasure to wind up for the Opposition on the very wide-ranging debate that we have had. I echo the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport…21 Jan 2020HANSARDLocal Government Funding: Crime and Disorder6. What recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the effect of reductions in funding for local government on levels of crime and disorder.13 Jan 2020HANSARDLocal Government Funding: Crime and DisorderThe front five pages of the Cambridge News today detail a series of knife crime incidents, drug dealing and general social disorder, which is causing huge concern to my…13 Jan 2020HANSARDMarking Exit DayI urge the Government to be careful about the tone that is adopted at the end of January. They will appreciate that there are many who do not see this as a moment for celebration.…09 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillSadly, we live in a very divided country. I have listened in vain to those on the Government Benches to hear whether they have any understanding of the 16 million people who voted…20 Dec 2019HANSARDChalk StreamsMr Speaker, thank you for turning the pronunciation of challenging surnames into an art form in itself—although I have to say that my campaign to be called in reverse alphabetical…31 Oct 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis DrugsThe system did finally work, but did it not take far too long, and is it not time to introduce transparency into this opaque system, particularly when the Americans are waiting to…29 Oct 2019HANSARDRestoring Nature and Climate ChangeMy hon. Friend’s intervention takes us off into a different debate in some ways, but I absolutely agree with him. It is much to be regretted that the very high environmental…28 Oct 2019HANSARDRestoring Nature and Climate ChangeCambridgeshire is not as flat as all that, if you cycle around. However, in answer to the intervention of the right hon. and learned Member for North East Hertfordshire (Sir…28 Oct 2019HANSARDRestoring Nature and Climate ChangeThe hon. Lady must be a mind reader, because that is my very next point. She makes an important point, because, as I was going to say, beyond those big long-term projects, there…28 Oct 2019HANSARDRestoring Nature and Climate ChangeIndeed, Sir David is of course one of my constituents and I happily canvassed him recently. Cambridge is a wonderful place in which to canvass, I assure the House.28 Oct 2019HANSARDRestoring Nature and Climate ChangeAs ever, my hon. Friend makes an important point. The University of Cambridge provides global leadership, but I occasionally point out to it that the link with the local community…28 Oct 2019HANSARDRestoring Nature and Climate ChangeI am slightly alarmed at the unanimity that is breaking out in the Chamber today. The hon. Gentleman is right and many of us have noticed that in the last period the green economy…28 Oct 2019HANSARDRestoring Nature and Climate ChangeI am grateful for that intervention. It must be a wonderful thing to be able to see that the trees that were planted then have now come to fruition. That is also an important…28 Oct 2019