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HANSARD Whistleblowing ProtectionsMy hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Anna Dixon) is absolutely right. We will not mention individual cases today, but we all know of individuals who have struggled doughtily…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Whistleblowing ProtectionsMy hon. Friend probably has unparalleled experience in this House, through her important scrutiny work as both a member of and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee; I was happy…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Whistleblowing ProtectionsI ask the Minister and his colleagues across Government to look at the way we fund and support our regulatory bodies. Often, the failure reported by a whistleblower would have…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Whistleblowing ProtectionsI thank my hon. Friend the Minister for his summation. I will make a couple of final points. I absolutely understand that the office of the whistleblower did not make its way into…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Whistleblowing ProtectionsThe Minister is nodding. I hope Hansard will record that fact for the purpose of my follow-up letters. The Minister is right: I have no doubt that the Government will take…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Whistleblowing ProtectionsI beg to move, That this House has considered protections for whistleblowing. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for today’s debate, Sir Mark. This week is…22 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe hon. Gentleman makes my point quite succinctly for me. Yes, there were three female leaders of his party, but they were elected; none of them had the opportunity to take up…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving in to my indulgences. This is an argument that could quite easily have been made during the passage of the original 1999 legislation: that…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillWill the hon. Member give way?15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe hon. Gentleman just made the point that the hereditary peers are a bastion of independence, and the hon. Member for North West Norfolk (James Wild) said that many of the…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI am very much enjoying the speech by the hon. Member. Is he making an argument that the former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Richmond and Northallerton (Rishi Sunak),…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe hon. Gentleman tempts me to stray outside the scope of the Bill. Madam Deputy Speaker has been clear that the Bill is specifically about hereditary peers. The Government have…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillWill the right hon. Member give way?15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI thank the right hon. Gentleman. Perhaps I can help him. As a former special adviser in the House of Lords, he will know that carrying out reform in that House is incredibly…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Billrose —15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI apologise to the right hon. Gentleman if my suggestion that he did not look a day over 60 was ageist—perhaps I should have said “over 50”. I find it difficult to take an…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Billrose —15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe right hon. Gentleman has made a number of contributions this afternoon and I have listened to them all, but I am not clear whether he supports the removal of hereditary peers…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI thank my Staffordshire colleague for giving way. If he carries on with this strain of radicalism, he might even have a book written about him by the Paymaster General—scant as…15 Oct 2024