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HANSARDUK Aid Policy: Global Funding TrendsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Efford, and an honour to follow the contributions by the right hon. Members for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David…07 Jul 2026HANSARDUK Aid Policy: Global Funding TrendsI thank the hon. Member. We know that aid works; I have seen it myself. I worked in international development for several decades before coming to this place. I have seen, in…07 Jul 2026HANSARDUK Aid Policy: Global Funding TrendsVery, very briefly, as I have almost no time.07 Jul 2026HANSARDUK Aid Policy: Global Funding TrendsThe argument that aid is only a small part of the solution to global poverty and inequality is not a controversial one, but lower-middle income countries have not been calling for…07 Jul 2026HANSARDUK Aid Policy: Global Funding TrendsWill the Minister give way?07 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsA high proportion of my constituents proudly serve in our armed forces or are veterans. They want to know that the investment in the DIP is being spent cost-effectively. Given…06 Jul 2026HANSARDForeign Interference in UK PoliticsI welcome that the Government have accepted all of the Rycroft review’s recommendations, but as Rycroft himself noted, his terms of reference did not enable him to look at all…06 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsSmall rural businesses in villages such as Pembridge in my constituency tell me that the combination of high business and VAT rates and rising national insurance contributions…02 Jul 2026HANSARDIsrael: E1 Zone ExpansionYou’re not doing everything!01 Jul 2026HANSARDMPs’ Second Jobs: ProhibitionAnd, indeed, immoral that somebody is earning more in a couple of hours than the average person—well, more than the average person; nurses, teachers and others who dedicate their…01 Jul 2026HANSARDMPs’ Second Jobs: ProhibitionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Western. I thank the hon. Member for Leeds East (Richard Burgon) for securing this very important debate. Serving as a Member of…01 Jul 2026HANSARDIsrael: E1 Zone ExpansionFrankly, I despair. I have lost count of the number of times that I and others across this entire House have come here to press the Minister to put in place a full ban on…01 Jul 2026HANSARDDefence Investment PlanWhat matters is not just how much we spend on defence, but what we spend it on and whether the Government’s choices offer good value for money. I am therefore deeply concerned…30 Jun 2026HANSARD National Maternity and Neonatal InvestigationI welcome Baroness Amos’s investigation, which has shone a light on the fact that these failings in maternity services are not isolated to one hospital or another, but exist…30 Jun 2026HANSARDCabinet OfficeOne of the key points that I tried to get across in my speech is that this has to be a whole-of-Government effort. DEFRA cannot put in place a strategy to adapt the health service…29 Jun 2026HANSARDCabinet OfficeThe Minister has not mentioned climate change. Climate change is not a natural hazard; it is a human-made major risk.29 Jun 2026HANSARDCabinet OfficeI honestly do not recognise the caricature that the right hon. Gentleman paints. Technology exists to provide both heating and cooling in ecologically friendly ways, and that is…29 Jun 2026HANSARD Diethylstilbestrol: Intergenerational ImpactI thank the hon. Member for securing this really important debate. One of my constituents, who is a DES daughter, came to see me, and she reported that her mother’s health records…29 Jun 2026HANSARDCabinet OfficeI thank the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) for introducing the debate so well. He makes many excellent points, including that we face a wide range of…29 Jun 2026HANSARD Climate ChangeDoes the hon. Member not recognise: first, that correlation is not causation; and secondly, that there was a financial crisis caused by outrageous speculation and a lack of…24 Jun 2026