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HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Service Animals) BillI, too, pay great tribute to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for North East Hertfordshire (Sir Oliver Heald), who is the very embodiment of a sensible but…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing the Bill. It is certainly very timely, but the increase in the tax rate and in taxes generally is due to the increase in our outgoings…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillI hate to sound like a stuck record but want to repeat a point. My hon. Friend gave a basic estimate of the cost of raising the threshold, but it seems to me that this would bring…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillMany households in my constituency, including my own, use heating oil, and I am sure that people would be very grateful. However, it is not an accountancy view to ask about the…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillIt raises a lot of money.08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillMy hon. Friend knows what I am going to ask. How much?08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillIt is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Erewash (Maggie Throup). She has highlighted how the VAT rules do somewhat take the biscuit when it comes to…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillOf course. Although that is a very good point, it does assume a competitive marketplace where that tax change would be passed on in full to the consumer, and it remains to be seen…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Value Added Tax BillThat is an excellent point. What worries me is that if we make unfunded commitments that do not result in the so-called dynamic behaviour that has been predicted and the Treasury…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI understand that the Government will shortly be publishing their proposed schedule of tariffs in the event of no deal. Does my right hon. Friend anticipate that that would be…07 Feb 2019HANSARDHigher Education: Quality and Choice11. What steps his Department is taking to increase quality and choice in higher education.04 Feb 2019HANSARDHigher Education: Quality and ChoiceDoes my hon. Friend agree that parents probably now take for granted the fact that we have Ofsted, which makes public and readily available the performance of schools, enabling…04 Feb 2019HANSARD Delay Repay: Great Eastern Main LineI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate, which I welcome. He is a great campaigner on this issue. One cause of dissatisfaction among our constituents on this line is…30 Jan 2019HANSARD Delay Repay: Great Eastern Main LineThe principle underpinning Delay Repay is that people should be compensated for any inconvenience caused, which brings me back to the intervention I made on my hon. Friend the…30 Jan 2019HANSARD No Confidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentI am sure that at some point in your life, Mr Speaker, it is possible that you have owned a copy of that famous political book “The Downing Street Years” by Margaret Thatcher. If…16 Jan 2019HANSARD No Confidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentIn terms of imposing conditions, if we go to no deal, we will go immediately to default WTO terms, including tariffs on lamb exporters, for example, of 40%, and we will not have a…16 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Health ServicesI thank my hon. Friend for her answer. She will be aware of the long-running and substantial problems that we have had in our main mental health trust, the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS…15 Jan 2019HANSARDMental Health Services11. What steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of mental health service provision in the long term.15 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Cyber-capabilities20. What steps his Department is taking to develop offensive cyber-capabilities.14 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Cyber-capabilitiesOf course, the private sector is a real success story; there is huge growth in the area. What more can the Government do to work with the private sector—in the context not just of…14 Jan 2019