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HANSARDEnergy UpdateThere is clearly consensus across the House about the need to decouple the price of electricity from the cost of gas. I very much welcome the Minister’s remarks that that is being…05 Sept 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingI recognise the force of that point, but the fact is that Parliament has debated the topic repeatedly over the last 20 years. We have devoted considerable hours of parliamentary…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingAs I understand it, we have had 14 hours of parliamentary time devoted to the topic in this Parliament alone. I suggest that there are other topics that we could address. I…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingIt is an honour to serve under you, Sir Roger, and I welcome the debate. I should declare that I am chair of the all-party parliamentary group for dying well. Let me start by…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingI really do thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. She is absolutely right, and I thank her for allowing me to make it abundantly clear what I hope I made clear earlier: I…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingDoes my right hon. Friend not acknowledge that in every single country where measures such as assisted dying, assisted suicide or euthanasia have been introduced, there is only…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingDoes the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the Health and Care Act 2022 included the amendment proposed by my noble Friend Baroness Finlay of Llandaff to ensure that palliative care…04 Jul 2022HANSARD Women’s Rights to Reproductive Healthcare: United StatesI recognise the degree of distress and concern felt by many Members in the House over the Supreme Court’s decision. The fact is, though, that I probably disagree with most Members…28 Jun 2022HANSARDChurch SchoolsChurch education is quite rightly a priority for our Church, particularly for its leadership, but can my hon. Friend assure me that significant appointments to the Church,…23 Jun 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseIn May 2016, Diana, the wife of my constituent, Peter Walker, was killed in an accident with a cyclist in Pewsey High Street. The following year the Government announced a…23 Jun 2022HANSARDBill of RightsThere has been much talk of Winston Churchill and the authorship of the original convention by British Conservative judges. The fact is that the text of the original convention is…22 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) for securing this debate, and for all the work that he does to champion the cause of English rivers. I…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesIt would be very lucky, except that it would get loaded with phosphate on the way, and that is the challenge we have to mitigate. Equally, the Kennet and Bristol Avon are glorious…09 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeI am honoured to be called so early in this debate—among my many colleagues keen to get in. [ Laughter. ] No, it is a great honour. I want to start by echoing the remarks made by…07 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeThe right hon. Lady has just suggested—and the hon. Member for Lewisham East (Janet Daby) made the same point—that the Prime Minister has weakened the ministerial code. Is she…07 Jun 2022HANSARDSenedd Representation and Levelling-up AgendaThe Welsh Government have decided that they want to increase the size of the Senedd, but there are real concerns that that will lead to a lack of proportionality in…25 May 2022HANSARDSenedd Representation and Levelling-up Agenda13. What discussions his Department has had with the Welsh Government on the potential effect on the levelling-up agenda of proposals to increase the size of the Senedd.25 May 2022HANSARD Public Order BillI thank my right hon. Friend very much for his intervention. He is absolutely right. I end with the observation that the protesters we are dealing with, even if they have…23 May 2022HANSARD Independent Review of Children’s Social CareI too welcome the report wholeheartedly. In my view, Josh MacAlister has set out a template for social policy in general, not just for children’s social care. Too often, our…23 May 2022