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HANSARD Places of Worship: Security FundingI thank the Home Secretary strongly for his statement, especially in the light of the horrific attacks on mosques in Christchurch, churches across Sri Lanka and the synagogue in…07 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI agree with everything the hon. Lady is saying, but will she share her thoughts on how we manage the oil and gas industry in the UK over the next two or three decades?01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI refer the House to my entry in the register, especially in relation to solar power and community renewable energy. I have three small ideas for the House today: reform of…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his words. From my experience in government of two and a half years of negotiating on climate change with the European Union, Britain managed…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeHow the right hon. Gentleman is proceeding with his Brexit policy is interesting and will be noted outside this place. Does he agree that to beat climate change in this country…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right on China; it is vital that people understand this. The Chinese are moving ahead very fast. He and his colleagues, and the former…01 May 2019HANSARD Rape Victims: Disclosure of EvidenceIn September last year, the Government published, with great fanfare, the victims strategy, but it is very hard to believe that those who wrote the document published today have…29 Apr 2019HANSARDHormone Pregnancy TestsI think I am right in saying that when the raw data that the expert working group had used was rerun by Professor Heneghan, it showed that if the expert working group had done…23 Apr 2019HANSARDHormone Pregnancy TestsI have to intervene on the Minister on that point. In many cases, drugs are looked at on the probability of risk, not on causality. Causality is a much stronger test. In science,…23 Apr 2019HANSARDHormone Pregnancy TestsI agree with all colleagues who have spoken. My friend, the right hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Sir Mike Penning), is right about a cover-up. He could have gone further; there…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Change PolicyIn thanking the Minister for her kind words about the design of CfD auctions, which has ensured that Britain is a world leader in offshore wind, I have to say to her that I found…23 Apr 2019HANSARDHormone Pregnancy TestsThe Minister is being very generous with her time. I refer her to the evidence that was in the Berlin archives, which goes back to 1968 and 1969, and to the meta-analysis, which…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Discrimination in FootballI strongly welcome the Minister’s statement and her leadership on this issue. Will she say a little more about why she thinks there has been this appalling upsurge in racism in…11 Apr 2019HANSARD Arrest of Julian AssangeI thank the Home Secretary for his statement. Clearly today’s arrest was correct, but looking ahead will he confirm that any extradition request from the United States will be…11 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsThe Minister is hearing from both sides of the House that we want action and that we want this investigation to happen promptly. We all know that he is not in charge of the courts…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Windrush Compensation SchemeWill the Minister acknowledge that one of the causes of the Windrush scandal in the first place was the disproportionate level of documentation from many years ago demanded by the…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Access to Medical CannabisWill the Secretary of State confirm whether it is true that if a Dutch mother brought the same medicine to the United Kingdom, she could administer it to her own Dutch child…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Loan ChargeI agree with the hon. Gentleman. Let me take his point on retrospection into the substance of my speech. Everybody has paid tribute to the Minister and I join in that, but I urge…04 Apr 2019HANSARD Loan ChargeI strongly agree with my hon. Friend and I thank him for the work he did in leading that EDM. The cross-party nature and depth of support should make the Minister think today.…04 Apr 2019HANSARD Loan ChargeI apologise to the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) for being the chair of an all-party group that has produced such a reasonable report. We did it because…04 Apr 2019