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HANSARD UK-China RelationsMy right hon. Friend, who has considerable and lengthy experience of dealing with China, makes a crucial point. There is no point in having a wish list if there is no sanction or…26 Mar 2025HANSARD UK-China RelationsI will come on to slave labour almost immediately, but to answer the hon. Member directly, I think the security concerns are too great. I welcome safeguards to remove slave…26 Mar 2025HANSARD UK-China RelationsI beg to move, That this House has considered UK-China relations. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I welcome the opportunity to raise in this House…26 Mar 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy right hon. Friend makes an excellent point, echoing one made by the hon. Member for Angus and Perthshire Glens (Dave Doogan). That is correct: there will inevitably be a net…25 Mar 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI thank the Minister for giving way so early in his speech. I just want to understand very clearly why the Government think that the NHS, under the banner of NHS England,…25 Mar 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillYou do not need any convincing of this, Madam Deputy Speaker, but were you to, the Lords amendments demonstrate why we need a House of Lords. They are the ones standing up and…25 Mar 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point, which has been made by Opposition Members on numerous occasions. It does not surprise me that Labour Members do not understand the…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillOn the environment, national parks are rightly protected, so when the Government impose housing targets on east Hampshire, all of that housing will have to go in the bits that are…24 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis afternoon I was contacted by the father of Theodore, who lives in Grayshott in my constituency. Theodore wants to go to the Army Foundation College in Harrogate in September,…24 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentWe have heard the argument from Labour Members that taking away the winter fuel payment somehow benefits the NHS, because money is going into it. Does my hon. Friend agree that…19 Mar 2025HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationAs a former NHS employee, I was shocked to hear that the Community Security Trust has found that the number of complaints of antisemitism in the NHS tripled in the 17 months after…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentThere is probably unanimity across the Chamber that Richard Branson does not need the winter fuel payment, but it is the poorest pensioners—those who are earning just above…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Paymentrose—19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI entirely agree with everything the hon. Gentleman has just said, but I am sure that, like me, he has received hundreds, if not thousands, of messages from pensioners saying that…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI do not know whether it is incompetence, pig-headedness or callousness, or indeed all of the above, that has led this Labour Government to take the winter fuel payment away from…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentWill the hon. Lady give way?19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Paymentrose—19 Mar 2025HANSARD Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI will finish my analogy. It is not Jeff Goldblum who is going to be savaged by the dinosaurs; it is our children.18 Mar 2025HANSARD Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillLike VAT on independent schools and putting up costs through national insurance contributions, this Bill is yet another example of Labour turning children’s education into an…18 Mar 2025HANSARD Welfare ReformI welcome any initiative that will see more people getting back into work. Although I have some concerns about the wrong people being targeted—and the fact that there will not be…18 Mar 2025