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HANSARD Business of the HouseAs a former regular customer of Brittany Ferries, I am very familiar with the Leader of the House’s constituency, and a fine corner of England it is too. Although she will agree…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Capital Projects: Spending DecisionsLet us be under no illusions: this is wealth redistribution, but not the wealth redistribution and investment practised by the EU. This is Tory wealth redistribution, taking from…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Capital Projects: Spending DecisionsWill the Minister apologise for this grotesque “you can look, but you can’t touch” form of Tory funding?09 Feb 2023HANSARDCost of LivingMany people in Northern Ireland—a very high proportion—are off-grid heating oil users. They, like oil users in my Angus constituency, had to wait a long time, after they had paid…08 Feb 2023HANSARDCost of Living2. What assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the effect of increases in the cost of living on people in Northern Ireland.08 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ2. The UK Government’s fiscally illiterate electricity generator levy will choke off billions from future investments in the kind of renewable energy projects that my Angus…08 Feb 2023HANSARD British Steel: NegotiationsI have listened carefully to the Minister’s words, and she has regularly detailed the amount of public money that has gone in to support the steel industry in the United Kingdom,…02 Feb 2023HANSARDUkraine: International ResponseMuch of the international support that is going to Ukraine will be deployed to defend Ukrainians against the barbarity of the Wagner Group private militia. Will the Minister…30 Jan 2023HANSARDMilitary Procurement StandardsMultiple major procurement projects for which the Submarine Delivery Agency is responsible are late or over budget, or often both. Taxpayers are used to the concept of bonuses,…30 Jan 2023HANSARDWagner Group: Sanctions RegimeIt is very difficult to believe that a regime exists now where civil servants can make this decision, especially in the case of Yevgeny Prigozhin. Anyone with a passing…25 Jan 2023HANSARDInternational Development CommitteeI thank the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) for her statement. She talks about the need for cogent and effective early-warning mechanisms, and I could not agree more.…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyNo. I am going to make progress. The hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex touched on why we are sending only 12 tanks. The reason is that we have scarcely three times that…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I thank the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) for securing the debate. I rather feared, having I nipped out of the…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyIs that it? I thought it was going to be a hard one. As he and I agree, nuclear weapons are an appalling weapons system that we hope will never be used. They are a deeply…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyNo, I will not let the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. Gentleman intervene. They have had their answer, they can deal with that wisdom whether they want it or not. There is no…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyThere’s your thanks for making a conciliatory point in a debate on a matter on which we agree almost entirely. I will not answer that remark other than to say that, far from an…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 PowerMy hon. Friend is kind in giving way. He is absolutely right. The SNP was accused earlier of trying to use this issue as a vehicle to create a constitutional schism and conflict,…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 PowerThe shadow Minister seeks to cast this conflict or tension—whatever we want to call it—as being between two Governments. In fact, depending on how the Labour party decides to act,…17 Jan 2023HANSARDScotland Act 1998: Section 35 PowerYou would think that before pulling the trigger on section 35 the Secretary of State would be absolutely across his brief, but it seems that he does not have a clue about this at…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillWill the hon. Member give way?16 Jan 2023