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HANSARD Retail StrategyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. It is also a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blaydon (Liz Twist). She has highlighted the structural changes…10 Jul 2019HANSARDActive TravelMy hon. Friend mentioned town planning. There is a crucial point on which the Government could be helpful. His constituency is very similar to mine: it has a lot of footpaths…09 Jul 2019HANSARD Tier 5 Religious Worker VisasThe hon. Lady makes an interesting point, but I return to mine: we live in a time when it is very difficult to get enough people to come forward for the priesthood of whichever…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Tier 5 Religious Worker VisasI thank the right hon. Lady for her intervention, but I do not see the two as different; I see them as all part of the same problem. I will go back to my comments on the Anglican…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Tier 5 Religious Worker VisasI am tempted to say that if it is not just a Catholic problem, perhaps it is a Scottish problem.04 Jul 2019HANSARD Tier 5 Religious Worker VisasIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gapes. It was also a pleasure to hear the hon. Member for Glasgow East (David Linden) introduce the debate. I wish to discuss…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Tier 5 Religious Worker VisasThank you, Mr Gapes. To respond briefly, I was not suggesting that; I was leaving it to the Catholic Church to decide. As I said, we can debate that issue on a separate occasion,…04 Jul 2019HANSARD Tier 5 Religious Worker VisasI am happy to refer to the Church of England as part of the Anglican Communion, which is a worldwide organisation that exists in so many countries that one might have thought that…04 Jul 2019HANSARD English for Speakers of Other LanguagesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Dorries. I will start with a reference to the all-party parliamentary group on social integration, which correctly provided a…03 Jul 2019HANSARDG20 and Leadership of EU InstitutionsThe readmission last week of the Russians to the Council of Europe is being described by the Russians as international approval of the Russian invasion of Crimea. Did the Prime…03 Jul 2019HANSARD World War Two: Polish ContributionWill my hon. Friend add to that list of Polish contributions to the second world war three mathematicians whose work helped to make the breaking of Enigma possible, which ended…02 Jul 2019HANSARD New Covent Garden MarketGiven what my hon. Friend said about the current state of things for the tenants, I wonder whether this is an opportunity to go back and look at the idea of the tenants taking…02 Jul 2019HANSARD World War Two: Polish ContributionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. My hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski) mentioned the attitude of the Attlee…02 Jul 2019HANSARDSchool FundingI present a petition that has been signed by 406 residents of the village of Woodcote in my constituency and by surrounding villages that feed into the school of Langtree. The…02 Jul 2019HANSARDOnline HomophobiaIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker. I may not be gay, but I have an intense feeling of sympathy with the human rights of individuals, and what this…01 Jul 2019HANSARDFree SchoolsIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Buck. I wish to speak about Europa School UK in Culham in my constituency, but this is not an attempt to get one over…19 Jun 2019HANSARDFree SchoolsI agree with my hon. Friend, who has hit on the key word that describes the whole programme—choice. It is about parental choice. What I have described has worked well for my…19 Jun 2019HANSARD Modern Slavery Act: Independent ReviewThank you, Mrs Main; it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I will raise the situation of modern slavery in Nigeria, which the team should look at as an example of how…19 Jun 2019HANSARD Jewish Refugees from the Middle East and North AfricaI wish to dedicate much of what I am going to say to the Jewish refugees of Iraq. I have taken a personal interest in them over the past year, having become friends with several…19 Jun 2019HANSARD History Curriculum: MigrationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Gary. It is also a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes), but I will take a slightly…18 Jun 2019