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HANSARDVitamin D: Covid-19It is an excellent idea and I do join him in that request. On the question of medical education, it has long been understood that vitamin D plays a critical role in calcium uptake…14 Jan 2021HANSARDVitamin D: Covid-19May I start by giving my thanks to the hon. Member for Ealing Central and Acton (Dr Huq) who cannot be with us today, but who is a fantastic ally of mine in this campaign to help…14 Jan 2021HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillThat is the point. First, it was a negotiating aim, as the hon. Gentleman’s leader said at the time, but secondly, that is why I resigned. The strategy that we were pursuing then…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillDoes my right hon. Friend agree that the mechanisms that this treaty has found are every bit as good as the mechanisms in the Canada treaty, for example, and all other treaties…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillIn normal times, this House would have been packed to the rafters with people listening to the Prime Minister’s speech, because this is a new beginning for our country. There is…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthThe right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) leaves me with an interesting image to start my speech. Let us look at the facts. The Government tell us that this is all…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthThe science is not the same as the opinion of a single scientist.01 Dec 2020HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastI lend my support to everything said by the Father of the House. Covid-19 means that the Chancellor’s strategy is broken into three phases: first, as we are doing now, spending…25 Nov 2020HANSARDIntegrated ReviewMay I say to the Prime Minister that this is the best and most intelligent defence statement that I have heard in a quarter of a century in the House of Commons? Will he assuage,…19 Nov 2020HANSARDCommittee on StandardsI am afraid that the 203 votes that the Deputy Chief Whip casts on behalf of Members have become 202. The process is flawed in four ways. First, it is a breach of natural justice.…10 Nov 2020HANSARDCommittee on StandardsI am interested in the impartiality. Was there guidance to the candidates and to the selection committee about whether being a member of political party would disqualify a…10 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe weekend press carried briefing of a Government intention to distribute vitamin D to care homes and other vulnerable groups. If that is true, I congratulate the Secretary of…10 Nov 2020HANSARD Jonathan Taylor: SBM OffshoreThe Vienna convention is important, but it does not overrule the Foreign Office’s duty to protect British citizens while they are abroad and it does not overrule the presumption…09 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI will read the quote: “Would we be content that a member of the Iraqi Government’s consent would be needed to prosecute? Would we accept a decision by that person not to…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillIt is a privilege to follow the hon. and gallant Member for Barnsley Central (Dan James), who is a co-signatory with me to amendments 1 to 10, which deal with the issue of…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI have a lot of sympathy with what the right hon. Gentleman is saying, but may I drag him away from his politics for a second? Would it not be very simple to incorporate the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy hon. and gallant Friend is exactly right, and I want to see the reputation that comes from that preserved after this Bill becomes law. I will briefly address the weaknesses of…03 Nov 2020HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI will tell my right hon. Friend in a moment exactly why I am not reassured by that, but he is quite right that the issue is the repeated investigation of people who are innocent,…03 Nov 2020HANSARDPoints of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Thank you very much for that explanation. I am entirely with my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox) in his…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe Prime Minister is clearly and quite properly trying to do everything possible to cut infections and deaths from covid-19. To that end, over the weekend, a number of eminent…02 Nov 2020