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HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Third sitting)Q I want to pick up on what you said about your concerns about the JR approach to appeals and whether it should be full merits. Then you said, “Well, we could do full merits, but…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Second sitting)Q Ms Chundur, you gave a very interesting stat earlier: £1.6 billion per year is spent on subscriptions that people do not want. One of your eight areas of concern is an opt-in…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you also recognise that there are people like me out there who signed up for a contract, and to be asked every single time, “Do you want to renew it?” when it is a core level…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Second sitting)Q Professor Fletcher, you are nodding. Would you like to expand on that? Professor Fletcher: I fully agree. I can see why there is concern about discretion, but the CMA has shown…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Second sitting)Q I understand the evidence that you have given about the need under clause 194 to have a JR approach to the appeal process. What that does, however, is underline the power that…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (First sitting)Q Is the intervention not actually the exact opposite of what you are suggesting, in that, if you have a stricter requirement within the regulations, people find ways to get round…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (First sitting)Q Mr Upton, I want to come back to you about subscription traps. You are saying that the requirement in the Bill that subscription cancellation should be a timely process is not…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (First sitting)Q You say that open, competitive markets are good for growth. I totally agree, but we are one market among a global series of markets. Building on what Vicky Ford just said, where…13 Jun 2023HANSARD New HospitalsThis announcement could not be better news for the people of Broadland. In the west of my constituency, they are going to be served by a brand new build at the Queen Elizabeth…25 May 2023HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandI try not to inhabit that area. Does my hon. Friend not think that it is surprising that only 10% of the country’s drinking water is fluoridated?16 May 2023HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandThat is fair enough. However, if someone grows up in the east of England, whether in Norfolk, Suffolk or even Bedfordshire, there are only two places where they can train:…16 May 2023HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandOne of the unifying features of the speeches today is that we have heard them all before. Not only have we all heard it before, but we have all said it before, so I will try—I may…16 May 2023HANSARD Post Office Executives: BonusesThis scandal upon a scandal highlights yet again that there is something fundamentally wrong with the governance of the Post Office. This is happening at a time when Fakenham, the…10 May 2023HANSARDReforms to NHS DentistryWe have had a full debate today. This is the third Backbench Business debate on the subject, but not the third debate on dentistry; I have had an Adjournment debate on dentistry,…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Sudan UpdateThe FCDO is rightly focusing on the immediate need to evacuate nationals. For that they have my thanks and, I suspect, the thanks of everyone in the Chamber. When that is…27 Apr 2023HANSARDGrant Funding from Local Authorities9. How the Church of England plans to spend grant funding from local authorities.27 Apr 2023HANSARDGrant Funding from Local AuthoritiesMy hon. Friend has made reference to the speech of the Bishop of Bristol in the other place highlighting an apparent inconsistency between the Local Government Act 1972 and the…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesThe hon. Lady is asserting that the UK economy has fallen behind since 2010. Does she recognise the figures that show that this country has actually grown faster than Italy, Japan…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesIt is a great pleasure to be given the role of the Opposition spokesman from the Back Benches here, but there is a difference between economic data that is factual, has happened…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living Increasesrose —25 Apr 2023