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HANSARD Business of the HouseI am sure the Leader of the House and all Members will want to join me in recognising this year as the 81st anniversary of the announcement by the Government of a national health…03 Jul 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI am afraid to say that the past week has been another horror show for the Government. This is Armed Forces Week, as the House will know. It is a time to celebrate and champion…26 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?26 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseAh, okay. I am very sorry to say that the Leader of the House has corrected me. She is, in fact, a union member and therefore fully complicit in the same problem. The Treasury…26 Jun 2025HANSARDIndependent Complaints and Grievance SchemeNo, that is not true. The motions of this House are not traditionally regarded as a form of bureaucracy; in fact, in many ways they cut through bureaucracy, because they allow us…16 Jun 2025HANSARDIndependent Complaints and Grievance SchemeI will speak to the motion and specifically to the amendment in my name on the Order Paper. As the Leader of the House has said, successive Administrations, in collaboration with…16 Jun 2025HANSARDIndependent Complaints and Grievance SchemeI am very grateful to the hon. Lady for the question. Of course, it is a Conservative body in the first instance, developed on a cross-party basis. As far as I am aware, there is…16 Jun 2025HANSARDIndependent Complaints and Grievance SchemeI do not know in what capacity the hon. Gentleman gave evidence to Paul Kernaghan, but that is an extraordinarily misconceived idea. This House is a democratically elected…16 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?12 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseAs the House will know, we have incoming news of a terrible disaster involving a flight out of Ahmedabad in India. I know that the Leader of the House will want to say a few…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseToday has a great double significance. As the House may know, it is World Environment Day, when we celebrate the natural world and recommit ourselves as a Parliament to seek to…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House give us the business for next week?05 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsrose—04 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. This House and, indeed, the viewing public have just been treated to the very unfortunate spectacle of a Prime Minister who was completely…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Government AnnouncementsIs that really the best that the Leader of the House can do—an “I speak your weight” autocue recitation of points that she has made in her three previous attempts to deal with…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Government Announcements(Urgent question ): To ask the Leader of the House if she will make a statement on Government announcements outside the House of Commons.02 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House give us the future business?15 May 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the Leader of the House for her remarks. As you will know, Madam Deputy Speaker, this week saw the tragic and untimely death of Sir Roy Stone. We had a brief moment of…15 May 2025HANSARD Ministerial Code: ComplianceI am very grateful to the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (Kirsty Blackman) for raising this urgent question. As she has highlighted, there is a consistent pattern of failure to…14 May 2025HANSARD Speaker’s StatementFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. You have said much that was true and good, and it is hard to improve on what you said as well as the Chief Whip, but may I add a few…13 May 2025