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HANSARD A379 Slapton LineThank you, Minister. I am sure the hon. Member for Totnes appreciates the opportunity for a meeting and a collective visit to the area by the entire Committee. Question put and…06 Mar 2024HANSARD A379 Slapton LineI will call Anthony Mangnall to move the motion. As he knows, there are no other speakers in the debate, although he can give way to Members if he so wishes. As an experienced…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEducational Attainment of BoysOrder. Before the hon. Member gives way, I remind colleagues that this is a debate on educational attainment of boys, not a general debate on the Budget, which will come later in…05 Mar 2024HANSARD Farming in Wales and the UKOrder. I encourage the hon. Gentleman to bring his remarks to a close.05 Mar 2024HANSARDEducational Attainment of BoysI call Mr Fletcher, who has a couple of minutes to wind up.05 Mar 2024HANSARDEducational Attainment of BoysThank you for bobbing, colleagues. I call Jim Shannon.05 Mar 2024HANSARD Farming in Wales and the UKI will call Jonathan Edwards to move the motion and then the Minister to respond. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up—as he knows; he is an…05 Mar 2024HANSARDPost Office Board and GovernanceMy primary interest is in compensation payments being made expeditiously across the entire United Kingdom, and in Northern Ireland in particular, where I have been lobbied…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI apologise for my enthusiasm, Madam Deputy Speaker; we will test the Minister to the nth degree. I want to make a point about whiskey, not because the hour is late but because it…26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandIt is eggs-cellent. If that was not the case, and if there was a problem due to veterinary medicines, or salmonella, that matter of sales would be brought to an immediate end.…26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI will. I am delighted that the Minister wants to intervene.26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandThe Minister does not want to be in a position where he is the gift that keeps on giving to certain people. I would like clarity on this issue of VAT, because it was cleared up…26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI like the Minister’s enthusiasm, but may I say that I am ahead of him? The leader of my party and I have already met officials and discussed these issues with them. We have put…26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandMy hon. Friend makes his point well; there is zero risk to the European single market. In the same way, there is zero risk with veterinary medicines—the Secretary of State knows…26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandWill the Minister give way?26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI thank the Minister for that. Of course, the Home Rule debates were brought to a cataclysmic end—we see on the walls of this Chamber the testament to that end and to the great…26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandMinister, I congratulate you on your promotion, but I commiserate with you because you will be dealing more and more with me and my colleagues. We will test you to the nth degree—26 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandThe hon. Member for North Down (Stephen Farry) says that a glorified press release is in front of us tonight. The hon. Member for Foyle (Colum Eastwood), who is no longer in his…26 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaI am sorry that the hon. Lady’s motion, which she is asking me and other Members to vote on tonight, does not contain a single word about 7 October. It is a denial, and it is…21 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaOn 13 November, I had the honour of meeting Adi and Dvir Efrat, a mother and daughter kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October. Thankfully, they were rescued by brave IDF soldiers. For the…21 Feb 2024