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HANSARDStrategic Litigation Against Public Participation BillHe’s the good cop.08 May 2024HANSARDStrategic Litigation Against Public Participation BillTo be clear, I do not think that the Bill, as drafted, meets the requirements. I will not press my amendments to a vote, because they are flawed, but I will table something on…08 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhen will the Foreign Office and the Home Office abandon their ridiculous pseudo security argument that is preventing the return of Shamima Begum and other women and children from…30 Apr 2024HANSARDAssisted DyingI am not a religious man, but I have always viewed life as sacred. For most of my life, I have been disinclined to accept the arguments of people who are in favour of assisted…29 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn a personal level, may I thank the Secretary of State for sponsoring my charity event yesterday for disabled children with SYNGAP1? Of course, I welcome the Government’s funding…29 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.29 Apr 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Solar FarmsMy hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech and makes a very good point about tenant farmers. Is not one of the problems the way that we have set up the pricing of these…18 Apr 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Solar FarmsMy right hon. Friend makes a brilliantly important point, which I had not thought of before, on this question of tax relief—basically, inheritance tax relief. That has meant that…18 Apr 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Solar FarmsI will return to Yorkshire later, but on the more strategic point, my right hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) quite rightly talked about this issue being a matter…18 Apr 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Solar FarmsI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Dr Johnson) on securing the debate. It has been apparent from listening to it how important an issue this…18 Apr 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Solar FarmsI am listening with interest to the hon. Gentleman. Does he agree that if we increase the incentive, up to the point of mandating in some cases, for the use of brownfield sites…18 Apr 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Solar FarmsI will stand to my full height. May I address the issue of the dismissive attitude behind the word “nimbyism”? Many people who live in these parts of the countryside—in…18 Apr 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I was the Minister who took through the House the Bill that created the ISC. At the time, the intention was that it would evolve to become a very powerful Committee, but it did…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]Before the right hon. Gentleman moves on, I wish to pick up on his point about the need for continually keeping up with the changing technology. One thing that was expected when…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I will not go over it again, but the High Court and the Court of Appeal came to a different view from that of my right hon. Friend, I am afraid, and that is why the legislation…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I will not press new clause 3 to a vote, but I tabled it because in 2010-11 David Cameron, the then Prime Minister, made a promise that there would be a review and that the issue…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I start from the perspective that we are highly likely to regret some elements of this Bill within the next 10 years, and I will come back to that in a moment. I will also start…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. May I address the iterative issue that the Minister and he both raised? It is not just the development of technology that is…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]Again I do not intend to press the matter, but if the ISC discusses this issue in the future, I point the right hon. Gentleman to the German model. They look at something and do…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Post Office (Horizon System) Offences BillMy hon. Friend has more experience of this issue than anyone, and he reinforces my point. Frankly, if I had a magic wand I would force the Post Office to re-audit every set of…20 Mar 2024