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HANSARDMinisters’ Interests: TransparencyAs the hon. Member says, integrity is vital in this place and we all adhere to high standards. He will also know that there is an established regime in place for those…18 Jan 2024HANSARDMinisters’ Interests: TransparencyI repeat that there are established regimes in place for the declaration and management of interests, and they are overseen by an independent adviser, who publishes reports twice…18 Jan 2024HANSARDMinisters’ Interests: TransparencyI refer the hon. Lady to the latest list of Ministers’ interests, which was published on 14 December 2023 and included the relevant interests of all Ministers forming the…18 Jan 2024HANSARDHonours SystemI will say from the Dispatch Box that the answer has been sent and given. If it needs to be reissued, we will do so, but it has been sent. Baroness Mone has taken leave of absence…18 Jan 2024HANSARDHonours SystemWe have made a number of important changes to increase transparency. We have launched a new website and online form to make it easier for anyone to make a nomination. We have…18 Jan 2024HANSARDMinisters without Portfolio: ResponsibilitiesI have seen the reports in the paper describing me as the Minister of common sense. I appreciate that the concept is difficult for Opposition Members to grasp. I am committed to…23 Nov 2023HANSARDMinisters without Portfolio: ResponsibilitiesFirst of all, I did not hear my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary say the comments that the hon. Member repeated; as far as I am aware, he has denied saying them. As I said, I…23 Nov 2023HANSARDMinisters without Portfolio: ResponsibilitiesIt does not surprise me that those on the Labour Benches attack private schools, which lots of parents want to send their children to. For them, that is common sense. For them,…23 Nov 2023HANSARDMinisters without Portfolio: ResponsibilitiesI thank my hon. Friend for bringing this matter, which he has worked extremely hard on, to the attention of the House. I am grateful for that suggestion; I will take it away and…23 Nov 2023HANSARDMinisters without Portfolio: ResponsibilitiesMinisters without Portfolio contribute to the policy and decision-making process of a Government. It is routine for the chair of the governing party to be made a Minister without…23 Nov 2023HANSARDGreen Belt (Protection) BillGoing back to the point on taking away local concerns and local opposition, which the Opposition want to do, the green belt is cherished by the public. To take away the voice of…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillThat point goes back to what I said about the MHRA moving from watchdog to enabler. I would like the role of that watchdog to be looked at.20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillI am not sure whether I could have intervened on the Minister there, but there should have been a cost-benefit analysis of industrial action, so that the public knew exactly how…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillDoes my right hon. Friend share my concern that, should the House decant somewhere else, it may be to an inferior Chamber? It may be not as secure or safe. In such an inferior…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillI do not think there will ever be enough scrutiny of what went on with HS2. Is my right hon. Friend concerned at all that the cost went up from about £36 billion to—if Lord…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillI, too, thank my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) for introducing the Bill, for the work and research that has gone into it, and for his reaching…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillIs my hon. Friend as concerned as I am that the head of the MHRA has said that the covid pandemic catalysed the transformation of that regulator from watchdog—which it should…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillDoes the hon. Member agree that we need to change the 1984 Act so that we do not bypass the House and go into lockdowns without full scrutiny by all Members of this House?20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillThe hon. Member has just said to the House that he did not have sufficient answers for the rule of six and the 10 pm curfew. Does he not think it curious that Members, except for…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) on his Bill. As he suggested, it focuses all our minds, including that of the Minister, on the…20 Oct 2023