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HANSARDChild Maintenance ServiceThere could be a change of Government by the end of the year. I welcome the warm words, and the hon. Member may go on to describe specific policy pledges, but I would like to hear…27 Feb 2024HANSARD High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) BillWe must recognise the jobs and investment that retail parks sometimes create, but there is no doubt that they lack on the added value we get when those retail units are placed in…26 Jan 2024HANSARD High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) BillI recognise that there are challenges when there is a more public process for the allocation of funds, but I hope the hon. Member would accept that if her party was lucky enough…26 Jan 2024HANSARD High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) BillPicking up on the remarks I made in my speech, what can we do to ensure that councils are designating and putting the work into high streets that need it, rather than picking ones…26 Jan 2024HANSARD High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) BillIt is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bury North (James Daly), and I agree with so much of what he has said and what other Members have said. I congratulate my…26 Jan 2024HANSARD High Speed 2 CompensationI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Theo Clarke) on securing this important debate and advocating for her constituents. As my remarks will show, I am…18 Jan 2024HANSARDClean Energy Technology: Private Sector InvestmentWhat assessment has the Minister made of the role of a tariff support mechanism to encourage short-term private sector investment in deep geothermal to support levelling up?04 Jul 2023HANSARDClean Energy Technology: Private Sector Investment17. What steps he is taking to encourage private sector investment in clean energy technologies.04 Jul 2023HANSARD Migration and Economic Development PartnershipI agree with the Lord Chief Justice. Despite what we have heard from Opposition Members, one of the three judges thought we were right; these are finely balanced issues. Of…29 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsLast week I was pleased to deliver my report on the opportunities provided by deep geothermal energy, and I look forward to my visit next week to the opening of the Eden project’s…14 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThere is an offence called “drunk and disorderly”. Disorderly can have any number of meanings. The common law legal system over time has sought to define it more narrowly and the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderIndeed. As I said earlier I supported the proposals for protection zones for abortion clinics, but that makes the exact point. When it suits them, they are perfectly happy to sign…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. We have all seen the footage online of people saying that they are just trying to get to work. Opposition Members say that that is…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderIndeed. I am going to finish by making a point to the protesters. If they want to change opinions, they should do what we all have to do most weekends, on both sides of the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderIndeed, and the protesters brazenly admit it. It is not about protesting with a by-product of disruption; they brazenly admit that they want to do ever-escalating things to get…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThe main point I want to emphasise today is that these issues are of course to do with balance. Opposition Members want to make it black and white, but we know that these things…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderWill the hon. Member give way?12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThe right hon. Member is postulating an argument that if a particular group of people are not successful in their protests because the Government do not follow through, that means…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThey lost.12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderThe other point that I think the shadow Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), completely ignores is that we have a common…12 Jun 2023