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HANSARD Sir David Attenborough: Permanent National MonumentIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger, and an absolute pleasure to stand alongside my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Johanna…09 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. He has just made the point that I wanted to make, which is that we surely cannot make an ideological decision that it is always right…09 Jun 2026HANSARDDefence Industrial StrategyI thank my hon. Friend for that answer. I also welcome the good news that this week alone, Thales in Belfast has been given a £36 million contract to provide those multi-role…03 Jun 2026HANSARDDefence Industrial Strategy5. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the defence industrial strategy 2025 on Northern Ireland.03 Jun 2026HANSARDOther CorrectionThe Labour mission was never simply to get on in life, but for all of us to share in prosperity and common endeavour. Nye Bevan once said: “We have to build a party that is…21 May 2026HANSARDOther CorrectionGetting Britain Working Again The following extract is from the debate entitled “G etting Britain Working Again ” on 14 May 2026.21 May 2026HANSARDOther CorrectionThe Labour mission was never simply to get on in life, but for all of us to share in prosperity and common endeavour. The task is to build on this King’s Speech and create both a…21 May 2026HANSARDGetting Britain Working AgainIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse), whose comments on community energy I will come to in a moment. It is a real honour to speak in this debate on…14 May 2026HANSARD Supreme Court Dillon JudgmentWith respect to the shadow Minister, I have to say as someone who ran peacemaking programmes in Northern Ireland and who did a master’s dissertation on the South African truth and…14 May 2026HANSARDReferral of Prime Minister to Committee of PrivilegesMy constituency neighbour is giving a speech full of hyperbole. The motion is about a specific question, yet he treats this as if it were a referendum on the Prime Minister. Does…28 Apr 2026HANSARDGovernment Procurement StrategyI warmly welcome the Minister’s statement. For many years it has seemed to me that while our European partners have been able to have significant sovereign procurement programmes,…22 Apr 2026HANSARD DefenceWill the hon. Gentleman give way?24 Mar 2026HANSARD DefenceThere are many things in the hon. Gentleman’s speech that I agree with, but as someone who grew up on the Clyde, does he welcomes the naval shipbuilding on the Clyde and the sales…24 Mar 2026HANSARDPuberty Blockers Clinical TrialIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. Any debate in which we are talking about the health and wellbeing of children and young people requires us all to be…23 Mar 2026HANSARDFlooding7. What steps she is taking to help protect communities vulnerable to flooding.19 Mar 2026HANSARDFloodingI warmly welcome the funding just announced, including for areas in my constituency—Budle bay, Belford and areas along the Coquet river. The national assessment of flood and…19 Mar 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseThe children of Belford primary school in my constituency recently wrote to me on a range of subjects. One of them said: “There are too many people using fossil fuels in…05 Mar 2026HANSARDJimmy LaiSticking with detentions in China, last week I had the great honour of meeting Grace Jin Drexel, the daughter of pastor Ezra Jin, who—along with 18 other pastors from Zion House…03 Mar 2026HANSARD Banking Hubs: Rural and Post-Industrial CommunitiesWill the Minister give way?24 Feb 2026HANSARD Banking Hubs: Rural and Post-Industrial CommunitiesThe Minister has been very generous. On the specific point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Torcuil Crichton), similarly in Alnwick and Berwick, in my…24 Feb 2026