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HANSARD Blackpool Airport: Public Service Obligation FundingIn any case, I will not abuse the privilege by speaking further. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Fylde very much for his comments, and I thank my hon. Friends the Members…06 Dec 2022HANSARD Blackpool Airport: Public Service Obligation FundingThat clarification is very helpful. There is a way of thinking with open PSOs that is not just tied to APD, but I will come back to the question of PSOs in general. We have some…06 Dec 2022HANSARD Blackpool Airport: Public Service Obligation FundingIt is a delight to see you in the Chair, Mr Gray. I am also delighted to respond to the very good speech and useful interventions made by my hon. Friends the Members for Fylde…06 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Drivers' Hours, Tachographs, International Road Haulage and Licensing of Operators (Amendment) Regulations 2022I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for her kind words, and for the questions that she has put on important topics. She is absolutely right to focus on the issue of driver…01 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Drivers' Hours, Tachographs, International Road Haulage and Licensing of Operators (Amendment) Regulations 2022My hon. Friend is absolutely right, of course, but the question was put as to Government policy and that was why I responded to it. Of course, we all recognise that the power of…01 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Drivers' Hours, Tachographs, International Road Haulage and Licensing of Operators (Amendment) Regulations 2022I thank my hon. Friend for his question, and I will come on to that further in my speech. He brilliantly anticipates. The drivers’ hours and tachograph regulations are essential…01 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Drivers' Hours, Tachographs, International Road Haulage and Licensing of Operators (Amendment) Regulations 2022I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Drivers’ Hours, Tachographs, International Road Haulage and Licensing of Operators (Amendment) Regulations 2022. It is a…01 Nov 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his question and deeply aware of the strength of feeling in this House and the other place about the scenes of violence at the consulate…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI fully recognise that the House has a very strong view of this, but if this apparent offence had taken place elsewhere on the streets of the United Kingdom, it would be subject…20 Oct 2022HANSARD FIFA World Cup 2022That is exactly right. It was very much in his nature to be warm and friendly, but also to tell people hard messages that they did not necessarily want to hear—albeit in his…20 Oct 2022HANSARD FIFA World Cup 2022I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Glamorgan (Alun Cairns) for securing this debate. I thank the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Bambos Charalambous), who I…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI am an enormous fan and admirer of the hon. Gentleman, but we have covered that question quite closely on several occasions during this urgent question. We will take the measures…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI am afraid that is hopelessly untrue. We take this matter extremely seriously: we are acting on it, we have had two urgent questions on the matter and we have different…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestOf course I do. The hon. Lady may recall that on Tuesday, I announced that the British national overseas channel had been extended to include adult relatives of those who are…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestIf I may say so, I do not think the hon. Lady is right about the position I have taken. We have been perfectly clear about the concern felt across interested bodies, parties and…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestThe hon. Gentleman is a Manchester MP and I respect the force of his passion on this issue. As with the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant), there is nothing more deadly than…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestThe hon. Gentleman knows that we have opened the British national overseas channel. We have offered support from the Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestThe fact of the matter is that we have already laid out an approach to this. As I said, the last time an ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Secretary was in the context of the…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestThe hon. Lady quotes the convention, and it is very interesting, but she skated over the key phrase, which is when police have “sufficient” evidence, and we are not in that…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Chinese Consul General: Manchester ProtestI personally was not aware of any further demonstrations, but the House has now been made aware of them. I will ensure that officials make some notification of that. This is a…20 Oct 2022