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HANSARDEconomic Growth: Regulators16. What steps her Department is taking to ensure that regulators support economic growth.25 Jan 2024HANSARDEconomic Growth: RegulatorsI am grateful to the Secretary of State for that answer, but on retained EU law reform, in the June to December 2023 reporting period there were only two regulatory reforms of…25 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Maria, and I congratulate the hon. Member for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan) on securing this very important debate. I am…24 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationI have multiple examples, particularly of 5G masts. One was quite literally put in somebody’s back garden, right on the fence line; another, in Monks Risborough, was right on the…24 Jan 2024HANSARDAction Against Houthi Maritime AttacksI welcome the Prime Minister’s statement and actions of self-defence against the Houthis as the right thing to do. Over the past 24 hours, the BBC has carried reports that senior…23 Jan 2024HANSARDGroceries Supply Code of PracticeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray, and to follow the powerful speech by the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Ben Lake). I thank the hon. Member for Neath…22 Jan 2024HANSARDGroceries Supply Code of PracticeI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I do fundamentally agree with him that this problem predates covid and the war in Ukraine. The market has been…22 Jan 2024HANSARDLoan ChargeMy hon. Friend makes an incredibly powerful point with which I entirely agree. Part of the ask of this debate and of the all-party parliamentary group on the loan charge and…18 Jan 2024HANSARDLoan ChargeI will do my best, Madam Deputy Speaker. I congratulate the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) not only on securing the debate but on the incredibly powerful and…18 Jan 2024HANSARDLoan ChargeOne more time.18 Jan 2024HANSARD High Speed 2 CompensationI am listening carefully to the shadow Minister, who is telling us that a mythical future Labour Government would not disrupt people’s lives. Does he understand that building HS2…18 Jan 2024HANSARDLoan ChargeI agree with the hon. Lady. Of course we need transparency across all walks of life—Government or otherwise. The right hon. Member for East Antrim referred to the Horizon scandal…18 Jan 2024HANSARDLoan ChargeThat is a point on which we have consensus. It is outrageous that promoters have not been pursued. The all-party parliamentary group has considered and taken evidence on that, and…18 Jan 2024HANSARD High Speed 2 CompensationWill the Minister give way?18 Jan 2024HANSARDLoan ChargeMy right hon. Friend’s powers of forensic analysis are second to none, but does he agree that it is actually slightly worse than that? He is entirely right in what he says, but…18 Jan 2024HANSARD High Speed 2 CompensationI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Theo Clarke) on securing this important debate. It gives me the opportunity —I have done this many times before in this…18 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ14. Over-crowding on Chiltern Railways has become a daily misery for commuters from stations including Haddenham and Thame Parkway and Princes Risborough in my constituency, the…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Proposed British Jewish History MonthIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Warrington North (Charlotte Nichols), not least because she has improved my knowledge of wrestling from absolutely nothing to…11 Jan 2024HANSARD Civil Nuclear Road MapNuclear is hugely important for our energy security, so I welcome today’s statement. Missing from my atomic Friend’s extensive list of the benefits of nuclear is how much kinder…11 Jan 2024HANSARDIsrael and PalestineHamas leaders have long enjoyed impunity, moving freely between Turkey, Lebanon and Qatar, financing and amassing international support for their terror activities. Does my right…08 Jan 2024