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HANSARD Water Companies: Sewage DischargeI am not imposing a formal time limit, but hon. Members should keep it in mind that if they take about five minutes each, we will comfortably get in everybody who wishes to speak.…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I commend the right hon. Gentleman’s point about employer-led qualifications and an employer-led direction. I am sure he will take this opportunity to commend the Northern…15 Nov 2021HANSARDJobs and InvestmentThe Minister will know that sport is an economic driver. He will also know of the bid for the world rally championship to take place in Northern Ireland next year. What…27 Oct 2021HANSARD Motorcycling: Government SupportIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship today, Mr Robertson. I congratulate the hon. Member for North Herefordshire (Bill Wiggin) on putting this important matter on our…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Motorcycling: Government SupportThe hon. Member makes an important point. Once electric bikes become the fastest bikes, whether that is for motocross or as a track bike, that will become the pinnacle of the…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillShe is an independent. There was no one brought from the main Unionist party into the Justice Department, because the nationalist parties would object to that and not allow it to…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillUnionists are not allowed— [ Interruption. ] Well, David Ford, I do not think he was—26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillOf course, the “ugly scaffolding”—26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI will in a moment.26 Oct 2021HANSARD Motorcycling: Government SupportI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. It is absolutely true if people decide to get on to a motorcycle, we should make sure they are encouraged to ride it safely, and…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI think the point is not lost on anyone watching that the Member has lost. Let me turn to some of the issues that have been raised. People have talked today about threats to the…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Motorcycling: Government SupportMy right hon. Friend has obviously been reading my notes, which is very unfair of him––do not read them any more. Sporting tourism is huge in Northern Ireland. He talked about…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillThe hon. Gentleman is making a sensible point about the extension of a crisis period. We currently have a situation where a crisis could last for days, and we are now potentially…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillLike the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone, we keep coming back to the phrases and mantras mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Upper Bann (Carla Lockhart): “We must…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillNo, I will not. The hon. Lady had a good opportunity to make a speech. It may not have been her finest moment, but she has made a speech and I think I am entitled to take that…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI am never frightened to give way, while others are, and the Member knows that, so he should not worry about that. I will give way in a moment. The SDLP Members are getting…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillOf course, this is not the first time that Social Democratic and Labour party Members have opposed the Belfast agreement and called for changes when it suits them. The previous…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSpeaker's StatementIn the midst of life, we are in death. Here we have no continuing city. Those prophetic words tell us something of the suddenness of the passing of our colleague and friend, a…20 Oct 2021HANSARD HS2The hon. Member for Coventry North West (Taiwo Owatemi) outlined the criteria of honesty, transparency, value for money and openness. Has HS2 not failed the test on all those…13 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI thank the Prime Minister for giving way on that particular point. He will be aware that there are 228 missionaries in Afghanistan currently under sentence of death; those…18 Aug 2021