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HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsIt is a pleasure to follow such illustrious members of a series of Committees, all of which focus on this area and all of which have shown the importance and critical nature of…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI will give way in a second. This is an advisory post, and if the adviser’s advice is not followed, they may decide they want to resign if they are fed up, but they should not…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI will happily give way to a member of PACAC.21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsAs I read the motion, it does not confer any fresh powers on the Committee, and therefore it would not solve the problem that the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out. There may…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI am gravely concerned about what I have just heard. A number of us were given to understand, before the debate began, that the Government were willing to say that there is a…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI take my hon. Friend’s point. All I am saying is that it should not be axiomatic and automatic that the adviser should feel they have to resign every time their advice is not…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI thought I heard it. The hon. Gentleman might not have heard it, but with any luck we will both hear clarification later.21 Jun 2022HANSARDNHS Dental Care Services2. What steps he is taking to improve the availability of and access to routine NHS dental care services in (a) Weston-super-Mare constituency and (b) England.14 Jun 2022HANSARDNHS Dental Care ServicesI thank the Minister for her answer. Even before the pandemic, the NHS commissioned enough dentistry to cover only about half the population of England. Covid has massively…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Portishead RailwayThe Minister is right to congratulate our right hon. Friend, my neighbour and co-MP for north Somerset, but it is not just his constituency that is affected. Right next door in my…14 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeMay I take my right hon. and learned Friend back to the Prime Minister’s response to the independent adviser—the letter that he mentioned that was published on 31 May? He is right…07 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeI thank the Chair for that clarification, and he is absolutely right. If we put those recommendations alongside the Committee on Standards in Public Life’s proposals on lobbying,…07 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeLet me begin by welcoming this motion, and particularly welcoming the response by my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister when he said that he basically supports the…07 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeI did not reach that conclusion, which is why I waited until I saw the Prime Minister’s reply justifying his view of his approach to the ministerial code, which he published last…07 Jun 2022HANSARDStandards in Public LifeI can reassure the right hon. Lady that I meant what she just said. My point about departing from the recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life is about whether…07 Jun 2022HANSARDEffects of High Marginal Deduction RatesI thank my right hon. and learned Friend for her kind comments. The changes that she has just re-announced are extremely welcome. With energy and food prices continuing to spiral,…17 May 2022HANSARDEffects of High Marginal Deduction Rates5. What assessment he has made of the effects of high marginal deduction rates on work incentives for people who are (a) key workers, (b) on below average incomes and (c) on above…17 May 2022HANSARD Energy Security StrategyI congratulate the Secretary of State on this excellent document. May I press him on the review of energy market arrangements and the long-term fundamental reform of the…19 Apr 2022HANSARDTaylor Review14. If she will take steps with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to implement the recommendations of the Taylor review of modern working…21 Mar 2022HANSARDTaylor ReviewMinisters from both Departments originally promised to implement the full set of the Taylor review recommendations back in 2018, but four years later, we still have gaps and…21 Mar 2022