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HANSARDState of Climate and NatureThose of us who advocate for the North sea oil and gas sector are not climate change deniers. We are realists who understand that we will need oil and gas for years to come; that…14 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: Scottish Public ServicesThe spending review came off the back of last year’s autumn Budget, which hit businesses in my constituency in north-east Scotland very hard, whether it was family businesses and…09 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Hours Extensions BillI am grateful to the hon. Member for Watford (Matt Turmaine) for bringing forward this private Member’s Bill, alongside the hon. Member for Wrexham (Andrew Ranger), and I am…04 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Hours Extensions BillI thank my hon. Friend for the intervention. This is clearly an area that he is very passionate about. If these proposals progress, I am sure that he will be able to feed into…04 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Hours Extensions BillI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. Of course, we should all strive for deregulation, and would like more of it all the time. That is probably a bit too much to take on…04 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: ScotlandI thank the hon. Member so much for giving way so gladly. I have visited universities recently, too, and they also point to the real-terms cut in funding from the Scottish…02 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: ScotlandWill the hon. Member give way?02 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: ScotlandThe hon. Gentleman talks about ideological blocks. The oil and gas sector, as he well knows, is crucial to Scotland, especially to the north-east of Scotland. Allowing it to…02 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: ScotlandThe Scottish Conservatives have suggested that we should be prioritising Scottish-based students for medical places at university, because they are much more likely to stay in the…02 Jul 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ9. This time a year ago, farmers and many others across the country were about to go to the polls, perhaps to vote Labour for the first time because they took the Prime Minister…02 Jul 2025HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismI thank the hon. Member for that, but if Palestine Action is using pyrotechnics against people who are escaping an attack by that organisation, that is intent. If it intends to…02 Jul 2025HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismThe right to protest is a hugely important part of our democracy. We support the right to protest and the right to free speech. We do not support a right to commit criminal damage…02 Jul 2025HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismI am grateful to the Minister for his speech and for bringing this important and very necessary measure to the House. I also thank him for the briefing I was provided with earlier…02 Jul 2025HANSARDDeprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) BillKeeping our country safe is, and must be, the first duty of any Government. That comes with decisions and choices that Governments must take to keep their citizens, our country…30 Jun 2025HANSARD Prax Lindsey Oil RefineryThe Government stood in to secure British Steel, citing national security and protecting jobs; now they are standing in to support Prax Lindsey, citing the need to protect energy…30 Jun 2025HANSARDChina AuditThe UK Government are still considering Mingyang as a credible supplier for turbines for the Green Volt offshore wind project, and the SNP Scottish Government have given Mingyang…24 Jun 2025HANSARDSocial Mobility: Careers EducationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank the hon. Member for Wrexham (Andrew Ranger) for securing this debate, and all Members for their…19 Jun 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillIn recent weeks and months in this House, we have become familiar with votes of conscience. The amendments that I shall speak to—new clauses 1, 20 and 106—are also matters of…17 Jun 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. On the one hand, abortion would be decriminalised for women; on the other, restrictions on her ability to access that same…17 Jun 2025HANSARDWindrush Day 2025I thank the hon. Member for that. Television, drama and even radio and other non-visual means can show the story in a lot better light than anyone making a contribution at this…16 Jun 2025