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HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance ReductionsI agree 100% with the hon. Member. The more we work with our partners, the more we can deliver. We are living in an interconnected society; there is no way we can do this alone.…04 Nov 2025HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance ReductionsIn that case, I will not thank everyone individually for their contributions. Thank you, Sir Desmond, for so wisely chairing the debate. I thank the hon. Member for Rotherham…04 Nov 2025HANSARD Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. He mentioned the importance of investing in funds to protect our security. He will know better than anyone that…04 Nov 2025HANSARD Independent Lifeboats: Government SupportI congratulate the hon. Member on securing this important debate. He is being uncharacteristically modest in downplaying his involvement in setting up NILA; I congratulate him on…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Connected and Automated VehiclesMany moons ago, I was listening to a futurologist on the radio, a job that seems to involve mainly sitting on beanbags. He was talking about autonomous vehicles and was asked, “Is…28 Oct 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillThe hon. Member is just in the nick of time, so I will.15 Oct 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillI thank the hon. Member for her intervention. She managed to make a detailed speech sound like a backhanded compliment. I do not disagree with her point that we have several…15 Oct 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillSustainable aviation fuel offers us a route to decarbonise one of the most carbon-intensive industries and to secure the future of our aviation sector in a way that is compatible…15 Oct 2025HANSARDJhoots PharmacyI would be grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker, if you could pass on my thanks to Mr Speaker for granting this urgent question. I thank the Minister for his response. The collapse of…15 Oct 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillI think I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I am afraid that I do not agree that increasing reporting burdens on industry is a bad thing. Every industry will argue…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Community Helipads: Rural AccessI thank my hon. Friend for giving way and I want to use this opportunity to beg a favour of him, although I appreciate that the issue I want to address might not be the…15 Oct 2025HANSARDJhoots Pharmacy(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement on the adequacy of Jhoots as a pharmacy provider.15 Oct 2025HANSARDBovine Tuberculosis Control and Badger CullingI thank my hon. Friend for raising one of the most important points that is often lost in this debate: the enormous toll that this process takes on our farming community. That…13 Oct 2025HANSARDHousing Development Statutory Consultees: Water Companies5. What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring water companies to be statutory consultees for new housing developments.13 Oct 2025HANSARDHousing Development Statutory Consultees: Water CompaniesOutdated sewer systems mix clean rainwater with sewage, polluting rivers and placing strains on outdated infrastructure. If the Government are intent on not making water companies…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesThe right hon. Gentleman mentioned that the Cabinet Office propriety and ethics team produced a report that was presumably handed to the Prime Minister, and that was certainly…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesThe right hon. Gentleman is right to highlight the Committee’s repeated requests to meet Lord Mandelson before his appointment. He also raises the various responses that we got…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI cannot deny that clause 4 of the sentencing Bill is a step forward for victims, but I believe it can go further by specifically mentioning physical and psychological harm.…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundI thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and for the passion with which she speaks about this subject. I wanted to raise the case of my constituent, Jean, an adoptive mother who…04 Sept 2025