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HANSARDCost of Living and Food InsecurityI will make some progress. We have heard that food bank use has rocketed significantly, and it cannot be right that so many food parcels are given out. It is right that volunteers…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsEssentially there is no plan, and the lack of a plan is a theme running through the Government. Let us move on to sewage discharge. Yesterday, when asked what could be done to…27 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis week, I convened a roundtable discussion with leading members of our food and drinks sector. To the surprise of many, I am sure, the Prime Minister’s having his cake and…27 Jan 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]I think that, with every public appointment made, we need transparency and we need to ensure that those around the table are there for the right reasons, and not to look after…18 Jan 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]I believe that across the country and across this House we care deeply about the welfare of animals. In that context, I am happy to reassure the Secretary of State that we support…18 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsLet us be absolutely clear: this was a national emergency but a Cobra meeting was not called; the Prime Minister was missing in action; and now we discover that the Secretary of…09 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThank you, Mr Speaker. The devastation caused by Storm Arwen was significant. Even a week later, more than 20,000 homes in the north of England were left without power, and some…09 Dec 2021HANSARDTransport for the NorthHow dare the Minister stand there and talk down my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson) for her question? She knows exactly what this…24 Nov 2021HANSARD Integrated Rail Plan: North and MidlandsI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. We will be going out shortly to collect the plan and scrutinise it. I am frankly staggered by how this statement…18 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I begin by sending my thoughts and prayers to those injured in Sunday’s train crash, particularly the badly injured train driver, and, of course, I pay tribute to the…04 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWith respect, our position on aviation and decarbonisation is absolutely clear. I want to stop the Transport Secretary not from flying, but perhaps from flying his own private…04 Nov 2021HANSARD International TravelI congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on putting the historic county of Lancashire, and particularly Chorley, on the international map over the past week. I thank the Transport…20 Sept 2021HANSARDHGV Driver ShortagesThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. We have heard the words, but they offer far too little far too late. We have all seen constant examples of businesses…13 Sept 2021HANSARDHGV Driver Shortages(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the Government’s plans to address heavy goods vehicle driver shortages.13 Sept 2021HANSARDGoods Supply ChainIf that is the best the Government have got, I am afraid that the crisis will not be sorted. They talk about solutions and interventions, but the long-term problems in the haulage…09 Sept 2021HANSARDGoods Supply ChainThis has been a summer where Ministers have shown an abject failure of duty, whether on the exam fiasco, Afghanistan or the HGV driver shortage. We have seen high-profile examples…09 Sept 2021HANSARD International Travel RulesI would like to know whether the Transport Secretary, as a genuine pilot, has been forced to self-isolate today. He should be here, he should have made the statement to the House,…19 Jul 2021HANSARD International Travel Rules(Urgent question): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on changes to international travel rules.19 Jul 2021HANSARD Transport DecarbonisationI thank the Secretary of State for giving me advance sight of his statement. We have not yet had the joy of reading the plan, although I look forward to seeing it later in the…14 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of the statement. When I questioned the Secretary of State on publishing the data, he said: “The JCVI and Public Health England do…08 Jul 2021