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HANSARD Water Companies: Sewage DischargeThe right hon. Gentleman will have to forgive me. I was concentrating on other things in the 10 years before privatisation—I am not quite that old. If he shares the Opposition’s…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Racism in CricketMay I strongly associate myself with the praise for the courage of Azeem Rafiq, the condemnation of institutional racism at Yorkshire cricket club more generally and the concerns…09 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Milton Keynes North (Ben Everitt), and I wish him well in his campaign for the university in Milton Keynes to be recognised and…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsOn the subject of levelling up, will the Secretary of State tell the House why he thinks it is acceptable for schools to be worse off in real terms now than they were in 2010?02 Nov 2021HANSARDUK Trade with the EULast month, the previous Secretary of State said that it had been a mistake to focus “too much on trade with the EU despite the richest opportunities being in the Asia-Pacific.”…21 Oct 2021HANSARD Access to CashPerhaps I can encourage my hon. Friend to pay tribute to the community credit unions that have branches, and that actively encourage people to bring cash in and that help them to…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Access to CashI pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones) for securing the debate and for the way she introduced it. I, too, think that banks should be…20 Oct 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) BillThe hon. Member may be right. I simply put out the idea at this stage, and I hope Ministers will be sympathetic to it, that we should not just accept the sense that, following…22 Sept 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) BillI want to take the hon. Gentleman back to the point made by the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake). Is not the problem the fact that we are being asked by the…22 Sept 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) BillI am sympathetic to the broad thrust of the amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant) and his concern, which I alluded to in my intervention, that the…22 Sept 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) BillThe hon. Member invests an awful lot of confidence in me to predict what might happen, but I can well understand a Conservative looking to the Labour party for such guidance. I…22 Sept 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) BillI am not sure I need to respond other than to thank the hon. Member for his intervention.22 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMany people applying for jobs have to jump through a series of stages in the recruitment process before they find out what the salary would be were they to be successful. Is it…21 Sept 2021HANSARD Demutualisation of Liverpool VictoriaMy hon. Friend will know that when we saw the last wave of building society demutualisations, there were large numbers of job losses. I gently warn those who work for Liverpool…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Demutualisation of Liverpool VictoriaMy hon. Friend and Benenden are right to be concerned about whether there are wider implications and we will see other businesses demutualising. The current vice-chair of…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Demutualisation of Liverpool VictoriaThe proposed demutualisation of Liverpool Victoria is the first proposed demutualisation of a major financial services business since the financial crash. If the demutualisation…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Demutualisation of Liverpool VictoriaI have two interlinked questions, if I may. First, the Financial Conduct Authority, in its letter to the all-party group of 5 August, made it clear that it had already decided it…15 Sept 2021HANSARDInfrastructure for Businesses: WeymouthQ10. A working graduate who earns the average wage or under, such as a newly qualified nurse, will face a marginal tax rate of almost 50% under the plans the Prime Minister is…08 Sept 2021HANSARDDRAFT EUROPEAN UNION (FUTURE RELATIONSHIP) ACT 2020 (REFERENCES TO THE TRADE AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT) REGULATIONS 2021The Minister might have seen the media story over the weekend about a suggestion that the UK-Ukraine trade deal, which the Prime Minister signed, contained a series of errors…19 Jul 2021HANSARDDRAFT EUROPEAN UNION (FUTURE RELATIONSHIP) ACT 2020 (REFERENCES TO THE TRADE AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT) REGULATIONS 2021Let me endorse the fact that it is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward, for this debate on the statutory instrument. Certainly, at first glance, the…19 Jul 2021