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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)I am fine, Sir Mark.07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q Tobacco companies, as we know, collect a pretty rich dataset on their sales. Do you think that requesting, or placing in legislation an obligation on them to publish, that sales…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q Some other countries, notably Australia and Canada, have introduced mandatory health warnings for manufacturers to place on individual cigarettes and filters, because quite…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)I declare an interest as vice chair of the APPG on smoking and health. Examination of Witnesses Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Sir Francis Atherton, Professor Sir Michael McBride and…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)Q May I ask a question about some of the arguments from tobacco companies for heated products to be excluded from the tobacco regulations and the Bill—and presumably therefore the…07 Jan 2025HANSARDGeneral ElectionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in this debate, and I very much thank those behind the petition who are…06 Jan 2025HANSARD UkraineMay I just say how strongly I welcome the statement? Our commitment across this House to defend Ukraine must be firm. Does the Minister agree that the cross-party nature of the UK…19 Dec 2024HANSARDChristmas AdjournmentIt is a genuine pleasure to speak in my first Christmas adjournment debate. I want to use the time to make two Christmas wishes and say some thank yous before we all begin driving…19 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI thank the right hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness for his comments. He praised the Conservative party as the most successful party in western democracy because it always…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillIt is a pleasure to speak once more on this critically important Bill, after an excellent debate on Second Reading several weeks ago. I do not wish to rehearse the entire debate…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThank you for your advice, Madam Chair. In closing, in raising national insurance, the Labour Government are taking the tough choices to fix our public finances. As I said at…17 Dec 2024HANSARD English DevolutionIt is instructive to hear a former local government Minister on the Opposition Benches, the hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare), describe the current system as “broken”.…16 Dec 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseEarlier this year, Swanscombe and Greenhithe town council in my constituency applied in round 4, window 1, of applications to the community ownership fund for money to refurbish…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesThe Minister knows, because we have discussed this before, that my constituency of Dartford is already getting on with the challenge of building new homes. Ebbsfleet garden city,…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Madam Chair. I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in Committee of the whole House on a crucial Bill that underpins the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning Committees: ReformI am pleased that the Government are consulting on the creation of smaller targeted planning committees specifically for strategic development. Ebbsfleet Garden City in my…09 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThe businesses in my constituency feel that the most important thing is to have a good trading environment, and I am happy to report that they feel that if we have support for…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillIt is real pleasure to rise in support of the Bill and to follow excellent speeches from Labour Members setting out eloquently why the Bill is necessary. As the House has…03 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?27 Nov 2024HANSARD Finance BillI thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. We are very clear: the numbers from HMRC show that very few of the sorts of farms that she is referring to will be affected. Actually,…27 Nov 2024