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HANSARD ImmigrationMy hon. Friend is making an important speech. My right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) talked earlier about the five cities-worth of…21 May 2025HANSARDChronic Urinary Tract InfectionsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I congratulate the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Luke Taylor) on an excellent speech that graphically explained…21 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitSome of the free trade deals we already have require us to have autonomy over our regulation. The Prime Minister has said today that we will not be a rule taker because we can…20 May 2025HANSARDNHS and Care Volunteer Responders ServiceOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Notwithstanding the response to the urgent question that you were kind enough to grant, we still have no idea how long the gap in the service will…19 May 2025HANSARDNHS and Care Volunteer Responders ServiceThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. At the start of the covid pandemic, NHS volunteer responders were set up to support vulnerable people. Following its…19 May 2025HANSARDNHS and Care Volunteer Responders Service(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement regarding the volunteer and care service.19 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWill the hon. Lady give way?16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWill the hon. Lady give way?16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWill the hon. Lady give way?16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillPersistence pays off. When considering the Bill, I had presumed that the doctor concerned would be a senior clinician—a senior doctor—but page 63 of the impact assessment refers…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWill my hon. Friend give way?16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI rise to support the hon. Lady’s new clause 1. As a doctor, I am very aware of the trust that the public place in doctors and the seriousness with which they take what we say. If…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Billrose—16 May 2025HANSARDSolar FarmsI thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I wonder if the average jumbo jet flying into Heathrow does a loop-the-loop on its way in. RAF Digby is the headquarters of the joint…15 May 2025HANSARDSolar FarmsI beg to move, That this House has considered solar farms. I must first inform the House that my husband is a farmer and agricultural contractor. I am very grateful to the…15 May 2025HANSARDSolar FarmsMy right hon. Friend is of course right, as usual, and I will address that point in more detail later in my speech. Even if we could resolve all those production, recycling and…15 May 2025HANSARDSolar FarmsI agree wholeheartedly that we should not use our best agricultural farmland for solar panels. The previous Government took steps to establish a £50 million fund to incentivise…15 May 2025HANSARDSolar FarmsMy right hon. Friend is right. I will come on to the cumulative effect later in my speech. He will recall that the previous Government brought in measures to ensure that happened,…15 May 2025HANSARDSolar FarmsMy hon. Friend is right, but I do not believe that the land will ever be returned to farmland, and many of my constituents feel the same. It is worth noting that 99.1% of solar…15 May 2025HANSARDSolar FarmsMy hon. Friend is right. As a farmer’s wife, I understand that farmers are being put under a lot of pressure by the various changes that this Government have made to taxation on…15 May 2025