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HANSARDTopical QuestionsDoes the Secretary of State agree that handing over powers to the World Health Organisation, undermining the UK’s ability to make its own sovereign decisions, would be…23 Jul 2024HANSARDCivil Service: Equality, Diversity and InclusionThe Government have a plan to deliver a brighter future for Britain, with long-term economic security and opportunity, where hard work is always rewarded, where ambition and…14 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for asking that question. He is a tireless campaigner on this matter, on which he has met with me and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. As…25 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is a champion and a campaigner on behalf of all those people who have suffered covid vaccine damage. We have met, and I have taken the issue to the permanent…29 Feb 2024HANSARDResignation Honours List: Public TrustIt is a long-standing convention under successive Governments that outgoing Prime Ministers can draw up a resignation list. That has been the case under past Governments from…29 Feb 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords Appointments: DiversityIt is a long-standing tradition that anybody who reaches the height of Prime Minister—irrespective of which party that is for—has a resignation list. The former Prime Minister has…29 Feb 2024HANSARDResignation Honours List: Public TrustMany people in the other House are probably somewhat insulted by the hon. Member’s words. Many of them are highly accomplished in a variety of specialisms and bring much insight…29 Feb 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords Appointments: DiversitySince 2010, female representation has risen to 29.1% and ethnic minority representation had risen by November 2021—those are the latest verified figures I have—to 6.6%.29 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformI am sad to say no I cannot, because we have said that it is essential that there is due process on the Floor of this House—not like the Opposition, who want to whisk it through…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformMy hon. Friend makes a good point, and I think that that would be looked at under the review as well, should we review this, but the law that was set out at that time stipulated…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformFrom a sedentary position, I get £1 million quoted at me. I remember, although maybe the right hon. Lady does not, that it was over £1 million in 2010 when Labour lost office, and…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformNo, because we are talking about waste. We are talking about appropriate measures taking place and this faux emergency legislation that the right hon. Lady wants to bring in.…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformSo the right hon. Lady could not apologise. She could not, or did not want to, stop the waste of hundreds of billions of pounds. I will say this: the Government accept that the…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformThat is well dodged again by the right hon. Lady. She will not confirm that Labour would keep a tight fiscal grip on ministerial pay. Obviously, one of the key things about…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformSo it is not going to happen today, but in fact the Opposition are not going to do it if they come into power—which, hopefully, they will not. That is how much of an emergency it…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformIt has been interesting to hear the Labour party—yes, the Labour party—make the case for the terms and conditions of workers to be changed unilaterally, in one day, and without…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformI will carry on for a little while longer. I want to talk about what the Opposition are doing today, which is, as I said at the outset, seizing the business of the day and trying…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformThe hon. Member has raised a point about redundancy payments, and that is fundamentally what we are talking about. Severance pay is a redundancy payment, in that Ministers can be…06 Feb 2024HANSARDHonours SystemI do agree. Given that my hon. Friend is a former sub-postmaster, I can fully understand why he feels so strongly about this matter; he is absolutely right to do so, and I thank…18 Jan 2024HANSARDMinisters’ Interests: TransparencyThere is an established process in place for the declaration and management of interests held by Ministers, as set out in the ministerial code. The independent adviser on…18 Jan 2024