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HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentOrder. I am not inviting the Secretary of State to give a sort of general response, in the style of a Second Reading debate, to everything that has been said. If he wants to…04 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentI call Drew Hendry.04 Mar 2019HANSARD Privatised Probation SystemNo less celebrated a denizen of the House than the Chair of the Justice Select Committee is among our number. We are deeply appreciative of that fact. Let us hear him.04 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am giving the hon. Gentleman ideas, I know.04 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsIndeed, Southend will probably judge that it should have its very own ambassador from the Philippines—not merely an ambassador visiting Southend, but an ambassador to Southend.04 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentIt is worth pointing out that that Hancock was deliberately funny.04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeAh yes, an Altrincham knight: Sir Graham Brady.04 Mar 2019HANSARDNew HomesI enjoyed the hon. Lady’s question, but it would nevertheless have benefited from the generous application of the blue pencil.04 Mar 2019HANSARDNew HomesThe hon. Members for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski), for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West) and, for that matter, for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Gordon Henderson)…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Stronger Towns FundI call Douglas Chapman.04 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentThe hon. Lady has made her point with considerable force and alacrity, and I have no doubt whatever that she is totally sincere, because she came up to the Chair to register her…04 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentI am grateful to the shadow Secretary of State for his point of order. As he will know, the choice of Minister to respond to an urgent question is exclusively a matter for the…04 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentWell, the Secretary of State has said what he has said, and colleagues will make their own assessment of it. I thank him for coming to the Dispatch Box.04 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentI think that the right hon. Gentleman’s question was more rhetorical than not, and there was not really a question mark at the end of it. I can only say, for my own part, that…04 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI am extremely grateful to the right hon. Lady both for this immensely serious point of order and for her characteristic courtesy in giving me advance notice of her intention to…04 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI thank the hon. Lady for giving me notice that she wished to raise this matter, which I know is of concern to many Members; indeed, I think the feeling is widespread across the…04 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI am coming to the hon. Gentleman. It would be a pity to squander him too early.04 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI thank the hon. Lady for giving me notice that she wished to raise this matter. The short answer is no, there has been no change in that requirement. The way in which the…04 Mar 2019HANSARDLocal Authority ServicesI am sure that the hon. Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) will be in his seat for that statement and will leap to his feet to make his point with his customary force and alacrity.04 Mar 2019HANSARDNew HomesA smörgåsbord, I am sure.04 Mar 2019