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HANSARDFire Safety: Local Authority PlanningAn architect constituent of mine alerted me to his concerns about Camden council’s approach to fire safety in an application to construct a 400-guest underground hotel. At the…03 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillI will crack on with new clause 2, as it relates to the Government’s catastrophic management of the fiscal regime for Scotland’s oil and gas. In December, Norway’s sovereign…03 Mar 2025HANSARDFire Safety: Local Authority Planning11. What steps she is taking to help ensure that local authority planning processes include fire safety assessments.03 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct: wherever we look, the fiscal ambitions of the Labour Government on North sea oil and gas, or energy more generally, seem to be…03 Mar 2025HANSARDDefence and SecurityThe Prime Minister knows that he can rely on the support of the SNP when it comes to efforts to restore Ukrainian sovereignty in the face of Russian aggression, despite the…25 Feb 2025HANSARD Warm Home DiscountYet again, an Energy Minister comes to the House to tell us that they are moving at pace. The only thing moving at pace is the last shred of credibility from that Department as it…25 Feb 2025HANSARDEnergy Infrastructure: Chinese CompaniesThe Minister is all over the place on this. In her opening remarks, she said that the United Kingdom has a world-leading renewable energy industry. If we did, we would not be…12 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsOn the point the Minister just made about the notional value of estates, I think I can help him, because that is where he is going wrong, and where he has taken his Government up…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsThe shadow Minister is articulating the substance of the issue with great passion. Does he agree that at the heart of this fiscal misadventure is classic Treasury dogma, whereby…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. Do the Secretary of State, his officials and his chiefs have a plan to implement the additional resource from 2.5% of GDP when it arrives? If they do not, we will be faced…10 Feb 2025HANSARDRosebank and Jackdaw OilfieldsWhat will workers in Scotland be thinking right now, as they watch the UK Government, and a Scottish Minister, going out of their way to accelerate the decline in North sea oil…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsFor very good reason, we do not apply tax to food. Does the hon. Lady agree that for the same good reason, we should presumably not apply tax to the production of food? Does it…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I rise to speak for the 468 signatories to this petition who are residents of my constituency. I have to tell you…10 Feb 2025HANSARD Israel and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesNo amount of rowing back by the US State Department can change the fact that what the United States President intimated earlier this week amounts to ethnic cleansing. Are the UK…06 Feb 2025HANSARDVisit to ScotlandInterestingly, the Prime Minister could not tell me when he will next be visiting Scotland, but does he agree with the withering assessment of the eminent politics professor Sir…05 Feb 2025HANSARDChagos IslandsThis matter must be so important if it consumes so much of the Minister’s credibility and £18 billion of taxpayers’ money. One would think there would be more than four Government…05 Feb 2025HANSARDVisit to ScotlandQ9. When he next plans to visit Scotland.05 Feb 2025HANSARDVisit to ScotlandThat’s the same answer you gave the last time.05 Feb 2025HANSARDEnergy Suppliers: Winter Support for ConsumersWhat would help bill payers is the £300 cut to energy bills that the Labour party promised in its manifesto. Instead, bills went up £149 in October, they went up £21 in January,…04 Feb 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyIt says on the cover that this is about growing the UK economy, but the statement’s substance is much more about growing the English economy. It has a passing reference to Wrexham…29 Jan 2025