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HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKI intend to make the case today that the UK steel industry could have a strong future, but that requires a much better approach than the one we have seen so far.23 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKI very much recognise the case that the Minister makes for Tata’s investment in the UK, but will she just be clear with the House on whether the subsidy package for Port Talbot…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKIt is literally here in my hands. It is not hard to find. I say to Conservative colleagues that Google is their friend. I have tried to say that the plans are available, but we…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKI am not ignoring that investment; I am making the case that it is a bad deal and that there is a better deal for the resources available that would satisfy far more of our…23 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon ScandalThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting the urgent question; I congratulate the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Sir David Davis) on securing it. This issue has rightly…10 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank the Minister for the advance copy of his statement. The Horizon Post Office failure is a scandal to which we have been responding for some…08 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe follow the Secretary of State’s Twitter feed, and quite simply, we do not believe her. I want to ask the Secretary of State about late payment. In the nine years that the…30 Nov 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis is the Department in charge of growth, investment and exports. In the latest figures, following the autumn statement, growth has been downgraded. Business investment is still…30 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hope that you will not mind me saying, as someone born and raised in the north-east of England, not too far from Stockton, that it is…23 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsI will give way to the Minister if he likes.23 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsI would simply say to SNP colleagues that their own independence White Paper made the fair case for a UK-wide energy market. That is because, as in many areas of policy, a UK-wide…23 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsYou have sold the land; you have salted the earth.23 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsAbsolutely. I apologise in full, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Government not only made that decision in their own short-term interests, which compares very poorly even with previous…23 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsNo, and I think the hon. Member is being a little bit mischievous there, and he is aware of that. What my hon. Friend the shadow Health Secretary has reaffirmed is Labour’s…23 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsUnsurprisingly, I agree with part of what the hon. Member said. We could have a lengthy and robust debate on the weaknesses of Conservative Governments in the 1980s and the…23 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerIt is always a privilege to close one of these debates, but to do so in response to a debate on the first King’s Speech in 70 years is truly historic. I thank each and every one…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerOwing to the importance of this issue, I must add something to the record. As the Minister and the Secretary of State know, electric arc furnaces are not the only way to…09 Nov 2023HANSARDBritish SteelI thank the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Holly Mumby-Croft) for securing this urgent question, at what will be a very difficult time for her constituents. The Labour party supports…08 Nov 2023HANSARD Tata Steel: Port TalbotAfter 13 years of failure, expectations of this Government are not high, but even by their standards, spending half a billion pounds to make thousands of British steelworkers…18 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe loss of Wilko is a significant blow to the nation’s high streets. However, more concerning is that no rescue has proved possible because several bidders have said that town…14 Sept 2023