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HANSARD Business of the HouseIn earlier comments, I found that the Leader of the House was trying to suggest that ambulance workers are not co-operating with management as nurses are. I recently visited my…26 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Procurement ProcessesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to ask that question. No convincing answer has been provided as to whether value for money was achieved. In fact, it is as plain as the nose on…25 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Procurement ProcessesSays you.25 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Procurement ProcessesMy hon. Friend is making a strong speech, although I wish her good luck if she is trying to persuade this ideologically driven Government to change their course. She may recall…25 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Procurement ProcessesI wonder whether the hon. Lady agrees with those learned commentators who said that EU rules actually preclude the use of procurement to achieve social objectives, and that that…25 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Procurement ProcessesI am pleased to speak under your chairpersonship, Ms McVey. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley), who has made a great contribution to the…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionThe Minister prays in aid the money that is being given to households across the country, and I acknowledge that that is a significant amount of money, but it is not working, is…25 Jan 2023HANSARDBritishvoltI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is a great champion for his constituency, working people and the north of England. Has he seen the reports today saying that if the north of…25 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Procurement ProcessesI totally agree with the hon. Member. We are seeing a fragmentation of the labour market and the driving down of people’s incomes—particularly of manual workers and others—and I…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseSeason’s greetings to you, Mr Speaker, and all members of staff of the House. On today’s nurses’ action, which has been taken most reluctantly, I want to say that two of the…15 Dec 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillThe Minister referred to environmental concerns relating to the planning process. It is remarkable, then, that there is no requirement to do an ecological survey of local…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Leader of the House may know that yesterday, during discussions about biodiversity in Canada, the Secretary-General of the United Nations said that humanity was is in danger…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Called-in Planning Decision: West CumbriaThe Secretary of State is probably aware of the statement made yesterday by the Secretary-General of the United Nations that multinational corporations are making ecosystems into…08 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) Regulations 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Mr Robertson. I want to make a couple of points. First, I am perhaps the only Member of Parliament who worked as a manual…07 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) Regulations 2022Does the Minister not accept that there is a wider public interest beyond the profession in how it is regulated, given his references to Grenfell and my points about architect-led…07 Dec 2022HANSARDDraft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2022
Draft Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections and Welsh Forms (Amendment) Order 2022I will come to precisely that point. I was the leader of a great council—Leeds City Council—for almost 10 years under Mrs Thatcher and then under John Major’s premiership. I was…30 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2022
Draft Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections and Welsh Forms (Amendment) Order 2022I am pleased to serve under your leadership of the Committee, Mrs Murray. I rise briefly to raise a couple of points about the provisions. These are quite ingenious ways of moving…30 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2022
Draft Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections and Welsh Forms (Amendment) Order 2022I will give way with pleasure.30 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2022
Draft Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections and Welsh Forms (Amendment) Order 2022Let me just make the second point, and then the hon. Gentleman can come in. I am not looking only at Labour Mayors; Andy Street in the West Midlands received 48% of the vote on a…30 Nov 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseEverybody in the House knows that the reason the Bill on Monday has been changed is that the Government cannot deliver a majority for their top-down, random house building targets…24 Nov 2022