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HANSARDDowning Street Garden EventWill the Minister set out what he thinks should happen if a Conservative MP is found to have flouted and broken a covid law?11 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateParents, teachers and pupils are incredibly nervous that due to the unprecedented spike in covid numbers children might once again face hundreds of thousands of hours of lost…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsHappy new year, Mr Speaker! I am sure the Prime Minister will want to join me and my Liberal Democrat colleagues in welcoming my hon. Friend the new Member for North Shropshire…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsFarmers across our country are crucial to our nation’s prosperity, as has been shown, once again through the pandemic, but many are now on the brink. Farmers across the country,…01 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsAmbulance response times are now the worst ever, people are waiting for ambulances longer than ever, and with A&Es in crisis, patients are stuck in ambulances outside hospital…17 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26May I associate myself and my party with the Prime Minister’s remarks on the horrific attacks in Liverpool? We had all hoped that the UK would lead the world to a bold agreement…15 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitI thank the Prime Minister for all his efforts to try to make COP26 a success. For many of us, halting climate change has been the passion of our lives. May I ask the Prime…03 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe Secretary of State is known very well for his debating skills, but he is also known for his political skills. My political skills were shown in my ensuring that his Ministers,…01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsConservative Members do not like it, Madam Deputy Speaker, but they are going to have to learn to live with it. As we debate the need to level up, anyone would have thought that…01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am very happy to debate fracking, and my record and the Government’s record on it. Thanks to the tough environmental regulation that we passed, particularly the seismicity…01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget Resolutionsrose—01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsNo, I am not giving away to him again.01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIn a second. We would have matched that immediate help with heating bills with a massive programme of home insulation, where this Government have so spectacularly failed. As I…01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend is a real campaigner when it comes to the environment and climate change, and she is absolutely right. I make a prediction to her: this continuing concerted love-in…01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe Budget proved one thing about this Conservative Government: they are totally out of touch. They are out of touch with the cost-of-living crisis: despite people struggling with…01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsTo get back to some serious points for a moment, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told Glasgow’s COP26 today that the world’s “addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity…01 Nov 2021HANSARD Budget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech on behalf of children, parents and teachers across our country. Is she aware that, in the fine detail of the Budget, banks are getting a…27 Oct 2021HANSARDTributes to Sir David AmessThe grief, the sadness and the shock that we are all feeling today on the awful loss of Sir David Amess—this collective sorrow—unites us all today. Like the Leader of the…18 Oct 2021HANSARDAUKUSAs consistent internationalists, Liberal Democrats welcome this enhanced co-operation with our Australian allies, especially because it is for our mutual security. Just because…16 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsYesterday’s social care plan forgot family carers, yet we are the millions wiping bottoms and washing and dressing our loved ones, whether they are elderly or disabled, ill or…08 Sept 2021