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HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?04 Jun 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseMay I welcome my guests to the Gallery? Part of our job at business questions is to act as a place of record, and this has been a grim week and a week of mourning for us all.…04 Jun 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI thank the Leader of the House very much for that business update and for the news of the debate on Wednesday. That will be an opportunity for Back-Bench Members to put matters…01 Jun 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseIt is famously true that our present Prime Minister gets 100 times more animated and passionate about the performance of his football club every weekend than he does about trivial…21 May 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?21 May 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the Leader of the House very much for announcing the business, and I welcome all colleagues back to the House. I am sure that the whole House will wish to join me in…14 May 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseTop of the morning to you, Mr Speaker. Will the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?14 May 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseAnd he is from Northern Ireland to boot. He is an honest man facing his demons and triumphing. What a contrast with the Prime Minister’s failure to answer, or even to engage with,…16 Apr 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?16 Apr 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseAs the House will know, this has been a week of sporting triumph. I think of the Lionesses’ 1-0 world cup qualifier against the world champions, Italy—or former world champions, I…16 Apr 2026HANSARDModernisation Committee Report: Access to the House of CommonsI thank the Leader of the House for his remarks, and fully echo both their detail and their sentiment. As he says, accessibility should never be an afterthought. In the case of…16 Apr 2026HANSARDModernisation Committee Report: Access to the House of CommonsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am afraid you may have been slightly misled by your officials. The report mentions restoration and renewal, and specifically refers to it as…16 Apr 2026HANSARDModernisation Committee Report: Access to the House of CommonsThank you very much indeed, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful for the opportunity to say a couple of words about the excellent contributions to the debate. I will, if I may,…16 Apr 2026HANSARDModernisation Committee Report: Access to the House of CommonsThe Leader of the House may not have been in his place, but I suggested that it might be possible to have two debates—a digestive debate and then a debate with a decision. Even if…16 Apr 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseLet me begin by paying tribute to President Zelensky. Thanks to you, Mr Speaker, he gave an extraordinary speech here this week. Like Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles”, it was a…19 Mar 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would be grateful if you could clarify that the House’s position is, and has always been, that we expect Members to show…19 Mar 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWill the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?19 Mar 2026HANSARDPre-1997 Pensions: Discretionary IncreasesI can understand why the Minister thinks those cases are harder; in some respects, they are less hard, because in those cases changes have been made reflecting circumstances. In…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPre-1997 Pensions: Discretionary IncreasesI congratulate the hon. Member for North Durham (Luke Akehurst) on his excellent speech and on securing this debate, and all those who have participated in it. I thank the…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPre-1997 Pensions: Discretionary IncreasesI will not detain the Minister long. If a group of trustees never pays a discretionary bonus, even though the scheme is in surplus, it starts to look like it is a policy of theirs…19 Mar 2026