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HANSARDAir PollutionOn my last day in the Chair, it gives me particular pleasure again to call—Bambos Charalambous!31 Oct 2019HANSARDSpeaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art: Frequency of ReportsThat is extraordinarily kind of the hon. Gentleman. I think he was also going to ask about the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art.31 Oct 2019HANSARDSpeaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art: Frequency of ReportsVery good. The hon. Gentleman is a dextrous parliamentarian who can always think on his feet.31 Oct 2019HANSARDWildlife CrimeMay I just say that I am not ignoring the hon. Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Angela Smith)? I am conscious that she has Question 6, on which another party wishes to come…31 Oct 2019HANSARDAnimal CrueltyIt is a great pleasure to call Dame Caroline Spelman. I am very sorry that the right hon. Lady is leaving the House. I know that she will be performing in her own right later, but…31 Oct 2019HANSARDAir PollutionIt will be done today.31 Oct 2019HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentencing) BillIt brings me further great pleasure, on my last day in the Chair, to call again Thangam Debbonaire.31 Oct 2019HANSARDWaste CrimeI thank the right hon. Gentleman. The word “inimitable” could have been invented to describe him, and that is supposed to be the warmest compliment. I genuinely appreciate what he…31 Oct 2019HANSARDWaste CrimeWe are running late, but, of course, the Chair has the benefit of Kantian perfect information. That is to say that I know how many people have or have not applied to speak in…31 Oct 2019HANSARDChalk StreamsI will.31 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsOrder. I have stretched the envelope as widely as I think is reasonable, but we must move on.31 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is an excellent godparent.31 Oct 2019HANSARDHS2: National Audit Office Progress ReviewOrder. Colleagues, I would like to accommodate all remaining Questions on the Order Paper, but we must also consider those waiting for subsequent business. I do not intend or wish…31 Oct 2019HANSARDCommunity ReconciliationThe hon. Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce) has offered a beautiful tribute, but every word of it was richly deserved by the right hon. Lady.31 Oct 2019HANSARDDigital Technology: New CongregationsThat was magnificently done. I hope that I can be forgiven for saying to the hon. Member for Romford (Andrew Rosindell), and more widely to the House, that as the hon. Gentleman…31 Oct 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. He knows that it is not strictly a point of order for adjudication by the Chair, although his articulate efforts to raise…31 Oct 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI am sympathetic to the hon. Gentleman’s concerns, and I think it is fairly obvious to the Leader of the House that I am sympathetic to the concerns of the right hon. and learned…31 Oct 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI think that that is the case. Of course, the Intelligence and Security Committee is not a Select Committee; it is a Committee of Parliament, and therefore different arrangements…31 Oct 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderNo, it is simply because the composition of the Committee and its modus operandi are determined in a manner different from those that apply to a Select Committee, which it is not.…31 Oct 2019HANSARDTributes to the SpeakerThank you.31 Oct 2019