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HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]The right hon. Gentleman should not take my not knowing the answer as meaning that other people are not paying sufficient attention to the issue. He has asked a very technical…07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]Only if it is a question to which I know the answer.07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]That is a great question. I have no idea, so I will commit to writing to the right hon. Gentleman with an answer, if he will forgive me for not knowing.07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. May I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Alex McIntyre) on his moving ten-minute rule Bill, which he just…07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]The right hon. Gentleman is doing a brilliant job of anticipating sections in my speech. Once again, I will point at him when I come to the relevant section; in fact, it is the…07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]I will come to a number of those points later in my speech. If I have not answered the right hon. Gentleman’s points as I get towards the end, I will take another intervention…07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]The right hon. Gentleman will know that the ambitions for GB Energy are broader than those relating to the provisions of this Bill. On the connection between the Crown Estate and…07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]I thank my hon. Friend for his excellent question. He will know from the work of ministerial colleagues in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero that the enormous…07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]As the right hon. Gentleman knows, Crown Estate Scotland is a separate organisation to the Crown Estate that is the subject of the Bill. Of course, we continue to have…07 Jan 2025HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [Lords]I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her help, which I hope gives the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) some reassurance, as it sounds eminently sensible.07 Jan 2025HANSARD Financial Assistance to Ukraine BillI thank the right hon. Member for his contribution. As we debated on Second Reading, this is a commitment across G7 partners and with the European Union to take action on the…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Financial Assistance to Ukraine BillI welcome the hon. Gentleman’s encouragement, which I take in good faith. He will know that these matters are multilateral and subject to negotiation with other allies and G7…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Financial Assistance to Ukraine BillIn closing, I thank right hon. and hon. Members for their contributions. I thank my hon. Friends the Members for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel), for Livingston (Gregor…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Financial Assistance to Ukraine BillThe Government’s position, as the right hon. Gentleman will know, is that we will set out the trajectory to 2.5% of GDP on NATO qualifying spend in 2025, following the conclusion…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Financial Assistance to Ukraine BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Once again, I extend my gratitude to Members from across the House for contributing to today’s debate and facilitating the…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Financial Assistance to Ukraine BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Madam Chair. We had a very constructive debate on Second Reading of the Bill. In particular, I wish to express my…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsI agree with my hon. Friend, and I encourage Opposition Members to put forward proposals. I am all ears. I am willing to listen to them, but so far all we have is opposition and…04 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsAs my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary has made very clear, when the Labour party came into government the NHS was broken. Why? Because of actions taken by the Conservative…04 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsThe hon. Member tells the House that he would go for growth. How did that go when his party tried it last time?04 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsWe have factored small businesses into the design of our policy, in terms of both employer national insurance contributions and our commitment to permanent lower rates for…04 Dec 2024