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HANSARDFinancial Conduct Authority: Loyalty Penalties in Insurance Market.The FCA’s cheap and, we hope, effective measures to stop insurance company customers being ripped off is in stark contrast to the energy price cap, which was introduced for…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that his proposals for a greater amount of custom and self-build will be another way of increasing supply, contributing to solving the problem I…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillThere is much to like and admire in this Bill. Mention has already been made of street votes, and I want to put on the record my thanks to the Government for including them, as…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right and that means we end up with gentle densification and beauty in the local style, creating spaces where people really want to live. We will end…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillAddressing that is absolutely essential. That goes for any of the deepfake examples we have heard about, including from my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Dame Maria…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillIt is a pleasure to follow Zach’s MP, the hon. Member for Batley and Spen (Kim Leadbeater). I particularly want to pick up on her final comments about the difficulties of…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillThe right hon. Lady is making a powerful case, particularly on the effective enforcement of rules to ensure that they bite properly and that people genuinely pay attention to…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Rail Cancellations and Service LevelsI completely support the Rail Minister in his comments that something has to change and that we cannot go on as we are. Can he confirm that the pattern of performance and service…01 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Price Guarantee13. If he will publish a White Paper on the long-term structure of the UK energy sector after the energy price guarantee ends.29 Nov 2022HANSARDEnergy Price GuaranteeDoes the Minister agree that while subsidies are necessary short-term sticking plasters, investors will not commit the multi-billion pound investments that the energy sector needs…29 Nov 2022HANSARDUndergraduate Degrees: Equal Standards14. What plans her Department has to ensure that the grades of undergraduate degrees in similar subjects on all higher education courses are of an equal standard.28 Nov 2022HANSARDUndergraduate Degrees: Equal StandardsFor every other serious qualification, any particular grade is worth the same whether a person studied in Truro or in Tadcaster. Even though universities accept the principle of…28 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT9. Good career guidance gives everyone—particularly those from less advantaged backgrounds—the ambition, self-belief and work ethic to take life chances whenever they appear and…28 Nov 2022HANSARDEngagementsQ9. The Prime Minister has rightly promised to recruit a successor to Lord Geidt as his ethics adviser promptly, but does he accept that threats to integrity are often broader…23 Nov 2022HANSARDWater Industry: Competition and RegulationI thank my hon. Friend for her kind words about my report on competition in all utilities, including the water sector, which was commissioned by the Government but, as she says,…17 Nov 2022HANSARD Autumn StatementCan I say how good it is to see the Chancellor channelling his inner Nigel Lawson by referencing not only the big bang, but his attempt to get the next big bang to happen,…17 Nov 2022HANSARDWater Industry: Competition and Regulation2. If she will instruct Ofwat to publish and execute plans to strengthen competition and reduce regulatory burdens in the water industry.17 Nov 2022HANSARDBritain’s Industrial FutureThe shadow Minister mentioned green steel. Do the Labour party’s plans include anything to do with a carbon border adjustment mechanism, which would, not just for steel, but all…15 Nov 2022HANSARDBritain’s Industrial FutureI want to ask the Minister the same question that I asked the hon. Member for Sefton Central (Bill Esterson) about a potential solution to the problems of high electricity costs…15 Nov 2022HANSARD Great British RailwaysThe rail Minister is right to talk about the need for rail reform, but may I urge him to use the couple of months of extra time that he has won by postponing legislation to…24 Oct 2022