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HANSARDBearskin Hats: Queen's GuardsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Fovargue. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day) for introducing this important…11 Jul 2022HANSARDBearskin Hats: Queen's GuardsIt is a matter of principle. It is not about the number of bears killed, but the principle. It would not be a difficult question for the MOD to answer, but the MOD chose not to…11 Jul 2022HANSARDDolphin and Whale Hunting: Faroe IslandsI beg to move, That this House has considered e-petition 597171, relating to the hunting of dolphins and whales in the Faroe Islands. It is a pleasure to serve under your…11 Jul 2022HANSARDDolphin and Whale Hunting: Faroe IslandsIt is a regional pronunciation.11 Jul 2022HANSARDDolphin and Whale Hunting: Faroe IslandsThank you, Sir Christopher, for chairing today’s debate. I thank the hon. Members who spoke and, belatedly, welcome the Minister to his place. I thank the constituents who have…11 Jul 2022HANSARDGambling Review White PaperIn what could be our last exchange across the Dispatch Box, I recognise that the Secretary of State cannot bind the hands of her successor, but as we move away from post-truth…07 Jul 2022HANSARDRestoration and RenewalI thank the hon. Member for The Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) for securing the debate and hon. Members who have contributed. Great ideas, constructive debates and…07 Jul 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Big porn, or the global online pornography industry, is a proven driver of big harms. It causes the spread of image-based sexual abuse and child sexual abuse material. It…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.28 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationIt is making plenty of programmes. In fact, the Secretary of State already said that so many production companies are being successful that they cannot keep up with the current…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)Amendment 84 is very simple: it removes one sentence— “for reasons of public policy”. Of all the correspondence that I have had on the Bill—there has been quite a lot—this is the…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I do, of course, agree. As anyone who has suffered with someone in their family committing suicide knows, it has a lifelong family effect. It is yet another amendment where I feel…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I did not expect the Secretary of State to leave quite so quickly. It is good to see so many unfamiliar faces on the Tory Back Benches—Members…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationLater—let me make some progress. Until then, we have little choice but to combat the collection of semi-arguments, half-heard bar-room prejudices, factual errors and outright…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationThe hon. Gentleman is shaking his head. Feel free to intervene, rather than groan in agony. Apparently he cannot marshal the words to match his facial expressions. Millions of…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationAs other hon. Members have already explained, Channel 4 is making record profits. Since the system seems to be working so well, I do not see the point of breaking it.14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationI beg your pardon. I try to avoid that, Madam Deputy Speaker. Now is the chance for Conservative Back Benchers to join us on this side of the House in the mainstream. Please stand…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 84, in clause 40, page 38, line 5, leave out subsection (a). This amendment would remove the ability of the Secretary of State to modify Ofcom codes of…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)rose —14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I am intrigued, as I am sure viewers will be. What is the new information that has come forward since December that has resulted in the Minister believing that he must stick with…14 Jun 2022