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HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsIt is a pleasure to close this debate, and the debate on the autumn statement as a whole, on behalf of the Opposition. I pay particular tribute to my hon. Friend the new Member…27 Nov 2023HANSARDEconomic GrowthI thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to the debate this afternoon. In particular, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Alistair…14 Nov 2023HANSARDEconomic GrowthI welcome the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott) to her place. I look forward to holding her to account. Last month, the Chancellor’s…14 Nov 2023HANSARDEconomic GrowthThat, Mr Speaker, was a list of very slow decisions still being badly taken. The Labour party has a raft of plans available to help drive economic growth and investment in every…14 Nov 2023HANSARDGrowth Plan: Mortgage Interest RatesThat is a bit rich from the Government, and it is no answer whatsoever to the people of Mid Bedfordshire who will not be able to afford to pay their bills over the coming months.…05 Sept 2023HANSARDGrowth Plan: Mortgage Interest RatesIt is estimated that 140,000 households will face a rise in their mortgage bills this month. If someone in a random constituency, say Mid Bedfordshire, were to remortgage their…05 Sept 2023HANSARDPost Office Horizon IT Scandal: CompensationThe victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal should be fully compensated, so that they are put back into the position they would have been in had they not been a victim of this…18 Jul 2023HANSARD Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipUK car manufacturers are currently changing their supply chains to buy components from either the EU or the UK so that they can continue to export their cars into the EU. However,…18 Jul 2023HANSARD Free Trade Agreements: ScrutinyI thank my hon. Friend for her questions and comments from the Dispatch Box, and I will take each in turn. My hon. Friend is right about resource allocation. As I said in my…13 Jul 2023HANSARD Free Trade Agreements: ScrutinyThe Business and Trade Committee has today published a report on the scrutiny of free trade agreements. The Select Committees of this House were recently restructured following…13 Jul 2023HANSARD Free Trade Agreements: ScrutinyWe are always very grateful for Ministers wanting to appear before the Committee, and we would be delighted to have the Minister before us. There is definitely a debate to be had…13 Jul 2023HANSARD Free Trade Agreements: ScrutinyI welcome the hon. Gentleman to the Business and Trade Committee, following the demise of the International Trade Committee. There are two important points. First, the 21-day…13 Jul 2023HANSARDArtificial IntelligenceThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am Chair of the Business and Trade Committee, but if there is an AI Committee I am certainly interested in serving on it. I declare my interest, as…29 Jun 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast year it was the energy companies; this year it is the water companies. The sectors have changed but the taxpayers are still on the hook. So will the Secretary of State commit…29 Jun 2023HANSARDArtificial IntelligenceCould I invite my hon. Friend to inform the House which of us in this debate is the one who got wasted?29 Jun 2023HANSARD National AI Strategy and UNESCO AI Ethics FrameworkI am grateful, Mr Deputy Speaker, that this Adjournment debate on the regulation of artificial intelligence has been granted. I declare my interest as set out in the Register of…22 May 2023HANSARD National AI Strategy and UNESCO AI Ethics FrameworkThe hon. Member is of course right. In the first part of his intervention, he alluded to the risk I have just been referring to, where machines can automatically create, for…22 May 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillIf I answered shortly with the word “Yes” it would ruin the rest of my speech, so I am going to keep reading through my notes. However, the hon. Member, having asked that…17 May 2023HANSARDUK Car IndustryThe story overnight came from written submissions to my Committee’s inquiry on the future of battery manufacturing in the UK. Stellantis will be here in Parliament next Tuesday to…17 May 2023HANSARDBuses: FundingSince 1 March, my constituents have been logging their daily experiences of bus services in my Bristol North West bus survey. Since then we have had over 200 reports of so-called…17 May 2023