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HANSARD TransportI welcome the £220 million announced recently by the Government for bus investment. Mine is the only constituency in the whole United Kingdom that has a British-owned bus-building…05 Feb 2020HANSARD Agriculture BillI welcome the points that the Secretary of State makes about protecting our environment, because without a good environment we cannot produce the good, tasty, and traceable food…03 Feb 2020HANSARDArmed Forces Personnel: Vexatious ClaimsI welcome the Secretary of State’s commitment regarding our armed services personnel and look forward to that working out in the fullness of time. Will he ensure that other…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Agriculture BillThe Secretary of State knows Northern Ireland well, so she will know that the big issue facing agriculture is farm incomes, which have fallen by 23% in the last two years. What…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Agriculture BillIt is a huge honour to follow a quartet of excellent maiden speeches from Members from across the House, each of whom has big shoes to fill and a big personality to match. My…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Netflix: Tax AffairsI appreciate the points the right hon. Member is raising about complex financial issues, but does she accept that the traffic is not all one way? In the last year, Netflix has…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Agriculture BillI want to try to get my head around this: is the Opposition’s opposition to chlorinated chicken about chlorinating all foodstuffs? Every single lettuce grown in the United Kingdom…03 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillI welcome the points that the Secretary of State has just made, particularly on Northern Ireland. As he knows, Northern Ireland has the most disastrous waiting lists. Will he…27 Jan 2020HANSARDHolocaust Memorial DayMy hon. Friend will know that some 41,000 schoolchildren from across the United Kingdom have availed themselves of the informative “Lessons from Auschwitz” programme, which in the…23 Jan 2020HANSARD Assisted Dying LawIs it not the case that there are about 150 of those type of cases, but that only three are actually being prosecuted for the sinister motive that could lie behind some of them?23 Jan 2020HANSARD Assisted Dying LawI should declare that my daughter is an end-of-life nurse at the Marie Curie hospice in Belfast and my wife is a volunteer fundraiser for that organisation. We will each have…23 Jan 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe House, and indeed the nation, was misled about the true cost of HS2, so perhaps the Leader of the House could tell us when the Government actually intend to publish the full…23 Jan 2020HANSARD Assisted Dying LawWould what the hon. Gentleman is describing take place if more resources were put into palliative care? If that happened, precedence would be given to the care, expectation, love…23 Jan 2020HANSARD All-lane Running MotorwaysOrder. The debate is heavily oversubscribed for a half-hour debate. Members may wish to lobby the Backbench Business Committee for a longer debate, given the considerable national…22 Jan 2020HANSARDDirect Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) BillI appreciate that the hon. Member has given way. She is making an absolutely excellent point about how these schemes work. I am sure that, like my farmers, farmers in her…21 Jan 2020HANSARD Lowestoft Tidal Flood BarrierAs the hon. Member knows, he is my brother’s Member of Parliament, and this is an issue that affects him. I understand that one of the key questions is whether there are…20 Jan 2020HANSARD Australian BushfiresCongratulations on your election, Madam Deputy Speaker. I know that your generosity to Northern Ireland Members will be unmatched by anyone else who takes the Chair, so thank you…09 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillThe hon. Member speaks as if trade is all one way. One of Germany’s biggest trading partners is the United Kingdom. Does he think that it wants to go down the road he is…08 Jan 2020HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillThe hon. Member must of course reflect that the fact of the matter is that the Republic of Ireland is an independent country in its own right. By being independent it is entitled…08 Jan 2020HANSARDMiddle East: SecurityIt will not be lost on the Defence Secretary that one of the first political organisations to mourn the passing of Soleimani was Republican Sinn Féin, some of whose members may be…07 Jan 2020