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HANSARDPersecution of ChristiansMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Was it not one of the most heartbreaking things that all of us in the House have seen when Christmas was cancelled in Jesus’s…08 Apr 2025HANSARDNew Homes: AffordabilityI welcome the Chancellor’s “build, build, build” policy, but with temporary housing in London costing £4 million a day, soaring rents and a frozen local housing allowance, it is…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Access to Sport: PE in SchoolsMy hon. Friend makes a brilliant case for access to sport. I could challenge him on his last claim, but he is such a doughty champion for Harlow, and I thank my hon. Friend the…03 Apr 2025HANSARD Access to Sport: PE in SchoolsYou look too young!03 Apr 2025HANSARDGaza: Israeli Military OperationsSince Hamas’s war crimes of 7 October, we have seen multiple flagrant breaches of the rules of the international order. This week, 15 Palestinian paramedic Red Crescent workers…02 Apr 2025HANSARD G7I welcome my right hon. Friend’s strong statement that blockading all aid into Gaza, including UK aid, is “appalling and unacceptable”. What discussions did he have with G7…17 Mar 2025HANSARDHigh Street Businesses4. What steps he is taking to support high street businesses.13 Mar 2025HANSARDHigh Street BusinessesFrom 5 am to 10 pm daily, the Patels’ newsagent, off licence and post office was an Acton staple—until Horizon slapped it with a £123,000 demand, and Mrs Patel had a series of…13 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionOrder. Through the Chair, please.10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionI remind Members to stand if they want to speak, so that we can work out who is going next.10 Mar 2025HANSARDGazaInstituting an aid blockade, while getting on for 50,000 Gazans have been killed and there is a polio epidemic, surely looks as if civilian deprivation is being used as a weapon…04 Mar 2025HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ReliefIt is interesting to learn that—03 Mar 2025HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ReliefI am not finished addressing the first point. Can we do this sequentially? I will respond to the hon. Member for Windsor (Jack Rankin) first and then I will take the hon. Lady’s…03 Mar 2025HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ReliefI do not know how parliamentary that language is. I am not going to join in the praise of Eton, particularly because I think the hon. Lady may have been an atypical parent. I…03 Mar 2025HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ReliefIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Vickers, and to see the newly minted Minister in his place—I think it is the first time I have been in a debate with him. It is…03 Mar 2025HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ReliefI would suggest implementing it in a slightly different way, based on turnover—so doing it for the enormous schools that can afford it, but not for smaller ones that have been…03 Mar 2025HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT and Business Rates ReliefThe hon. Lady and I were both girls in those schools, and she talked about her daughter. Does she accept that it is often the parents who want their daughters to have an all-girls…03 Mar 2025HANSARD Women’s HealthI am sorry to do this, but I am imposing a newly reduced time limit of three and a half minutes.27 Feb 2025HANSARD Women’s HealthFinally, for what we think is her first outing as a Minister in Westminster Hall—although she is a veteran of the Chamber already— I call Ashley Dalton.27 Feb 2025HANSARD Women’s HealthWith a time limit of four minutes—the clock is counting backwards—I call Jim Shannon.27 Feb 2025