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HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI bet my hon. Friend does—she should declare an interest!28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxIn preparing for this debate, I was thinking about my history when it comes to stamp duty. I recall quite vividly going to see a mortgage broker on Dedworth Road in Windsor—I am…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI would say that I hope the hon. Member in question is closer to this Budget, but having listened to some of his other utterances, perhaps most of us on the Conservative Benches…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxMy hon. Friend is quite right. Although we are at risk of picking apart the Budget in its entirety, I would suggest that giving away our sovereign land and paying for the…28 Oct 2025HANSARDScottish Independence ReferendumI thank the Secretary of State for his unequivocal rejection of separatism. He will always find on the Conservative side fellow colleagues who treasure this United Kingdom and…22 Oct 2025HANSARDScottish Independence Referendum5. What his policy is on holding a referendum on Scottish independence.22 Oct 2025HANSARDManchester Terrorism AttackWhen we allow Islamist hate preachers such as Sheikh Alafasy to do speaking tours, it is no wonder British Jews in the UK no longer feel safe. In January, he had a platform at the…13 Oct 2025HANSARDPrison SafetyThousands of drones are being used to smuggle contraband such as weapons and drugs into prisons. Locally, I have met leading security company Preventive Concepts Security. The…16 Sept 2025HANSARDPrison Safety4. What steps he is taking to improve the safety of the prison estate.16 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillDeclare an interest!04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy right hon. Friend is right. Our national story has brought us to a place where this House is rightfully dominant among the three parts of Parliament in exercising the…04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI rise to speak to Lords amendments 1 and 8, and therefore against the motion, in two minds. I say in two minds because I find the unilateral removal of the hereditary peers…04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy hon. Friend’s point is right, and I thank him for it. We walk through the Division lobbies, directed by the Whips, often having had no time, because of the impossible juggling…04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThat is the tension that I am trying to bring out. Who would seek to frustrate such an agenda—the Lords might, in their current form. I find it exciting—and this is a warning—that…04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The point I am trying to make to those on the Government Benches is that if a Government can expel their political opponents from the other place…04 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ12. Like many, I was deeply concerned that a police force deemed it necessary to take five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer from a flight. Some may have found Mr…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Victory over Japan: 80th AnniversaryIt is through our veterans that our collective memory of the second world war is best preserved, but as their bright flame is flickering it is important that a new generation—my…21 Jul 2025HANSARD Colne Valley Regional Park: ProtectionThe proposals for a third runway at Heathrow would take 900 acres of the regional park directly, not to mention the indirect consequences, including Colnbrook and Horton in my…11 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. We all know that there is a difference between welfare cuts and welfare reforms. These cuts were the maths of Treasury mandarins. It is the same thinking that saw winter fuel…01 Jul 2025HANSARD Glastonbury Festival: BBC CoverageHad those chants called for the deaths of people of any other nationality or ethnicity, there is no question in my mind that the live feed would have been pulled straightaway. I…30 Jun 2025