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HANSARD Window Cleaning Industry: Workplace SafetyOn 6 April last year, my constituent Jason Knight was cleaning the last window of the home of a regular customer in Westbury when he was electrocuted by 33,000 V from an overhead…17 Dec 2025HANSARDQuarries: Planning PolicyWhether the Minister gives way is not a matter for the Chair; it is a matter for the Minister.16 Dec 2025HANSARDChagossians: Trust Fund and ResettlementAfter a string of high profile corruption cases across Mauritius, what confidence does the Minister have that the bounty he is about to bestow on the Mauritian Government,…16 Dec 2025HANSARDAfrica: New ApproachSince it is nearly Christmas, and in the spirit of goodwill, may I congratulate the Government on changing and updating the UK language on the Western Sahara? What will the…16 Dec 2025HANSARDQuarries: Planning PolicyI intend to start calling Front Benchers at 10.28 am, which means we are oversubscribed, so I will impose an indicative limit on speeches of four minutes, an exemplar for which…16 Dec 2025HANSARDDefence Spending: Economic GrowthMost of our allies and our industrial competitors have a system of offsetting to support their domestic defence capability, economy and jobs, and traditionally this country has…15 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessWill the Health Secretary ensure we have clarity on advice regarding the use of face masks, particularly where they are mandated? He will be aware that conflicting advice is…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Conduct of the Chancellor of the ExchequerThe Minister is a reasonable man, and I imagine that he would subscribe to the Government’s much-vaunted duty of candour that they are selling in their Public Office…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Conduct of the Chancellor of the ExchequerMy right hon. Friend is being very generous. The truth is that through dither, delay and changing their mind, the Labour Government in the run-up to the Budget had a real impact…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Conduct of the Chancellor of the ExchequerWill my right hon. Friend give way on that point?10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkHas the Minister compared and contrasted Pride in Place with the future high streets fund, which was a proven mechanism for uplifting the state of many of our high streets,…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkDoes my hon. Friend agree that this Budget and the previous one have been hammer blows to our already flagging high streets? Does he also recognise that the only retail premises…10 Dec 2025HANSARD Railways BillI am grateful to the Secretary of State for allowing me to intervene. Her Wiltshire constituents and mine are not really interested in organisational change, but they are…09 Dec 2025HANSARD Railways BillOn that point, will the Secretary of State give way?09 Dec 2025HANSARDVenezuela: US MilitaryOn data sharing with our allies, does the Minister agree that signals intelligence and human intelligence are not a pick and mix when it comes to the Five Eyes community? Will he…03 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will start on a positive note by commending the lines on productivity in the Red Book, and the recent comments that various Ministers have made about that. Productivity has to…02 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe hon. Lady is outlining an extensive programme of capital expenditure on the national health service. Between last year and this year, we have had the largest set of Budget…02 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am grateful for your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. What has unfolded since September reflects badly not just on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the Prime Minister, or the…02 Dec 2025HANSARDWaste IncineratorsI beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the carrying out of construction work in respect of new waste incinerators, other than in cases where substantial…25 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyThis country has no phosphates, and no phosphates means no agriculture. Happily, our close friend and ally the Kingdom of Morocco has most of the world’s reserves of phosphates,…24 Nov 2025