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HANSARDBulb Energy: AdministrationI welcome the Secretary of State’s commitment to making sure that this temporary measure is indeed temporary, and I encourage him to make it as short as possible. I also welcome…24 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsT10. Does the Home Secretary agree that successive studies, including even the 2017 Lammy review, have concluded that improving trust in—and the legitimacy of—our law enforcement…22 Nov 2021HANSARDStrengthening Standards in Public LifeI share the concern expressed by the hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Steven Bonnar)—although I reached a very different conclusion—about the Prime Minister’s…17 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am indeed advocating that all income should be taxed equally. It is a Lawson-esque idea; the right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The reason why it is so essential, and why…01 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI want to refer to the comments made by my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox), my parliamentary neighbour, on the level of tax because, at the end of the…01 Nov 2021HANSARDGas Prices and Energy SuppliersThe Secretary of State is absolutely right to focus on consumers and not to bail out energy firms that got things wrong or are too fragile. However, will he explain how he is…23 Sept 2021HANSARD Subsidy Control BillMy hon. Friend makes an important point. Indeed, he has led me to the final point in my speech. He is right to say—I know Ministers in the Department have this instinctively in…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Subsidy Control BillI am seriously pleased to see the Bill coming forward. It is much needed, not just because, as the hon. Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra) pointed out, it is a…22 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsQ6. Later today, the Subsidy Control Bill will give us all a welcome chance to replace clunky and bureaucratic EU-derived laws with faster, simpler and more flexible UK rules…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Subsidy Control BillThere are a couple of exclusions that I think make an awful lot of sense. For example, there is an exclusion about national security, which I hope everybody on all sides of this…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Subsidy Control BillThe right hon. Gentleman is right, particularly because in the modern digitising economy, everything is moving faster and faster every year. Even if that issue was not a problem…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Subsidy Control BillMay I strengthen my hon. Friend’s point by saying that whatever people’s views of the CMA may be, it is pretty well respected as being a robustly politically independent…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Brexit: OpportunitiesI welcome the scale, scope and ambition of the impressive list of intentions that began the Minister’s statement. May I press him on one point, which he mentioned later on? It is…16 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. Drug use in our prisons lines the pockets of organised criminals and smuggling gangs, puts prison staff at risk of pressure from those same gangs and makes the already…14 Sept 2021HANSARDAnti-competitive Behaviour: Small Businesses12. If he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of access to justice for small companies affected by anti-competitive behaviour that are ineligible (a) for the Competition…14 Sept 2021HANSARDAnti-competitive Behaviour: Small BusinessesThe Secretary of State understands that anti-competitive behaviour is just as likely among small firms as among big ones. The effects are terrible: fast-growing small firms that…14 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister will have seen that two recently published Government-commissioned reports, mine on competition policy and that of the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and…14 Jul 2021HANSARDOpen BankingWhat discussions he has had with the Competition and Markets Authority on the independence of open banking.06 Jul 2021HANSARDOpen BankingI am delighted to hear that the independence of open banking is a core principle. Would my hon. Friend agree that open banking potentially creates a much wider idea or direction…06 Jul 2021HANSARD Levelling-up Bids: North SomersetThe Minister is being very helpful and is showing that his Department is already getting to grips with the details behind the bids, so I thank him for his remarks so far. Could he…23 Jun 2021