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HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI thank you, Sir Charles, for calling me to speak, and the hon. Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) for the way in which she introduced the petition. It was obvious to most that…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI give way to the hon. Member for Gower.28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI think the hon. Member maybe misheard me, because I was not challenging the right to have the debate. I was challenging the misinformation on social media that encouraged people…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionUnder the new dispensation that the hon. Member is arguing for, how would she propose to deal with, say, a very difficult case, such as the one brought to prosecution, namely that…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI actually think the hon. Member is absolutely right about the sheer compassion that this issue has to command. There were something like 800,000 pregnancies in the United Kingdom…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI thank my hon. Friend for that point. In 2022, there were double the number of abortions in Northern Ireland than there were in the previous year. The number doubles each year,…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman feels it is a dialogue of the deaf; I do not think that is the case. It is important that we are, for the first time in a long time,…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionThat is an important point that I will come to later when I touch on the matter of decriminalisation. There were 214,869 abortions in 2021. I looked that up. That is about 40,000…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI understand the hon. Member’s point, but of course there are two sets of DNA, two bloodstreams, two lives and two heartbeats. It is more than just the woman’s body. While I…28 Nov 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseAt next week’s debate on the autumn statement, can the Leader of the House ensure that a statement is made by the Government, supporting, committing to and reaffirming their…17 Nov 2022HANSARD Autumn StatementThe £650 million of Barnett consequentials announced for Northern Ireland will go some way to plugging the gap that has been left by an inept Finance Minister in Northern Ireland.…17 Nov 2022HANSARD Mathematical Sciences: Contribution to SocietyI am going to call Sir Stephen Timms to move the motion. I will then call the Minister to respond. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up because…15 Nov 2022HANSARDFracking: Local ConsentI congratulate the hon. Lady on leading her first Westminster Hall debate. Question put and agreed to. Resolved , That this House has considered local consent for fracking.15 Nov 2022HANSARD Mathematical Sciences: Contribution to SocietyThank you, Minister. My son is a mathematics student, so I found that particularly interesting. For the record, 12 times 12 is 144. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this…15 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State will be aware that in March 2020 Russian reconnaissance bombers entered the Rathlin sector of UK airspace. Six Typhoons had to be scrambled in order to…07 Nov 2022HANSARDBBC Local Radio: Proposed Reduction in ProvisionThank you for calling me so early, Mr Speaker—obviously accelerated by the complete lack of Scottish Nat Members, which I am sure is by accident and not by design, but I do…01 Nov 2022HANSARD Bus Manufacture in the UKIt was an honour to be at the Wrightbus plant with the Secretary of State. He was so enthusiastic. I think he actually said that he was really into buses—he is a wee bit nerdy…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Bus Manufacture in the UKIs the right hon. Gentleman amazed that we have companies in the United Kingdom that build buses for Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America, Germany, Hong Kong and…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Bus Manufacture in the UKThe right hon. Gentleman has initiated an important debate this evening. A few years ago, 70% of the buses Wrightbus was making would have been diesel buses, but in the last year…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Bus Manufacture in the UKOne of the ways in which the Government could buck the market and protect British manufacturing would be to say that 50% of the next number of ZEBRA buses that are ordered must be…31 Oct 2022