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HANSARD Road MaintenanceI had hoped the hon. Gentleman and I got on better than that, but I am grateful for the question. Everyone in this Chamber can point at potholes and say that more needs to be…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceThe hon. Member may have misunderstood me; the figure I was referring to was from 2009-10—the very last year of the Labour Government. Since then, although there have been…07 Apr 2025HANSARDUK Democracy: Impact of Digital PlatformsThe hon. Lady is making a genuinely powerful speech with a really strong argument, and I commend her for it. The Government may be struggling to tackle the digital platforms…03 Apr 2025HANSARDBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryWhat a disgrace this shabby Chagos deal is turning out to be. Labour are not just giving away our national security; they are going to pay billions to Mauritius for the pleasure.…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Will the hon. Lady give way?01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]rose—01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Of course I agree with my right hon. Friend, and that comes to the nub of what I want to say. Yes, inevitably we are party politicians. We have the official Opposition, we have…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I do not think I can; I thought that was an absolutely brilliant speech. I feel like a party-pooper, because I am going to drag the debate back to the Product Regulation and…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I am so pleased to have eventually got through to the hon. Lady. She heard the Minister at the Dispatch Box say that this was not about dynamic realignment. Am I right in…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Every single one of the measures in that infamous list that my right hon. Friend just went through required a vote in this House, and Labour Members had to put their name to each…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Much of this debate has been about whether this Bill leads us to dynamic alignment. The Government’s position is that it does not and that this is all a mirage and a fantasy. If…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I refer the hon. Gentleman to the conclusions of the fourth report by the expert Committee, which states: “We remain of the view…that the Government have failed to provide a…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]rose —01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]The right hon. Gentleman makes reference to the ability of this House to make regulations. We can, of course, do so by primary legislation. There was a parliamentarian who said…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I entirely agree. I did an analysis, and 48.3% of sitting days since the general election have been on one-line Whips, so there are no grounds for the Government to assert that…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]The conventions of the House, and the conventions of the legislature, cannot be brushed aside by a flip comment like that. There are reasons why we have conventions. There is a…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I am genuinely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. He says that he has failed to persuade Opposition Members in this place, but does he accept that he has also failed to…01 Apr 2025HANSARDDraft Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2025I have nothing further to add on the meat of the debate than what my hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk put forward. I rise to explain my delayed arrival to the Committee; I…31 Mar 2025HANSARDWater BillI have not intervened on other speeches, but on that one comment that the hon. Lady has made, has she read the plan for water that was published by the previous Government and is…28 Mar 2025HANSARDWater BillI would like to give the hon. Gentleman the opportunity to correct the record: the official Opposition did not oppose that Act.28 Mar 2025