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HANSARDManufacturing SectorI thank the Secretary of State for that answer, but the rhetoric does not match the reality. Look at what other countries, including France and Germany, are doing, and look at the…10 Nov 2020HANSARD Flooding Preparedness: YorkshireI know that the hon. Lady cares deeply about this issue and did so even before she was a Minister. She mentioned the £170 million, but does she recognise the anger of my…30 Sept 2020HANSARD Flooding Preparedness: YorkshireI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. He is making an eloquent, passionate and moving speech. Does he recognise that, for many of my constituents who have been…30 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThis is unprecedented in the following sense: the Government are coming along and breaking an international agreement they signed less than a year ago. I have heard the hon.…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThere is an important point here. To take the example of animal welfare or food safety, those powers remain devolved, but they are devolved in name only, because by imposing the…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI join the Business Secretary in paying tribute to the Public Bill Office for the work that it has done. I also profoundly thank my hon. Friends the Members for Manchester Central…29 Sept 2020HANSARDSupport for Businesses: Covid-19The Secretary of State did not answer my question about these businesses that are currently shut down and that are doing the right thing. Many of them have no income coming in,…29 Sept 2020HANSARDSupport for Businesses: Covid-19Over 1 million people are employed in sectors that are currently shut down, including weddings, events and nightclubs. The Chancellor last week refused to support them because, he…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI am going to carry on. It is important to hear the words of the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) in her coruscating and brilliant speech in Committee. Government…29 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillActually, yes we do, and I will tell the hon. Lady why. We respect the fact that the Conservative party, under this Prime Minister, won the election. He got his mandate to deliver…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillThe right hon. Gentleman and I come from different positions. I want to respect the devolution settlements that uphold the Union and he has a different point of view, but on this…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillThat is not a risk we are going to take. So the fire alarm defence simply does not work. The last defence was floated as a trial balloon, one might say, by the Northern Ireland…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillThe right hon. Gentleman did not like the protocol at all. He would rather have not had the protocol. He and I just have a disagreement on this issue. I believe it was necessary…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillThere you have it: he didn’t read the protocol, he hasn’t read the Bill, he doesn’t know his stuff. Let us deal with the second bogus argument. The Prime Minister claimed on…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy hon. Friend makes an important point; I do believe it was the Prime Minister who signed the deal. In fairness to the Prime Minister, I want to deal with each of the arguments…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillIt is very interesting that the hon. Gentleman should say that, because a report came out today from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, which is chaired by a Conservative…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add: “this House notes that the UK has left the EU; calls on the Government to get on with…14 Sept 2020HANSARD Business and Planning BillI rise to support Lords amendment 1 and the other Lords amendments that have been sent back to us from the other place. This is an important Bill, as the Minister…21 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessThis issue of 3 million people being excluded is not going away. Let me ask him about the winding down of the furlough scheme. Yesterday, Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation,…21 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Support for BusinessI want to return the Secretary of State to the question asked by the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Dr Hudson) about the many businesses that are part of the 3 million…21 Jul 2020