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HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]With exports, we can apply any kind of regulation we want to maximise our market advantage from leaving the EU. We could apply a statutory framework for Japan, or any country we…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I agree completely with the right hon. Gentleman. I will leave it there, because that is an excellent point. This is about free trade and expanding our global reach by making…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Let me make some progress.01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I now want to talk about competition—01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I am not aware of any other legislation that has received the same recommendation three times. That represents a substantial warning. The…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I will give way on a point about competition.01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I have deep concerns about this Orwellian Bill because of what it does not explicitly say and its ambiguity regarding EU dynamic realignment. The Henry VIII powers the Bill gives…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Let me make some progress, and then I will give way. The Government have always claimed that they would not return us to the single market and the customs union, and many believed…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]The Bill is a legislative blank sheet of paper for Ministers to fill with whatever legislation they feel like. The Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee stated…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Well, I am now on competition. Would the hon. Member like to make a comment about that?01 Apr 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point about temporary accommodation and the lack of housing availability. But why have the housing targets for London, which has some of the…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy hon. Friend is making an excellent point, because the same thing is true in London. We have seen London housing targets decline for the Mayor of London, who has not met any of…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillWe have seen with HS2 an example of planning authorities being taken over in a way that was not the traditional compulsory purchase process. HS2 has been allowed to take over…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point about the “blockers”. These are people who live on floodplains, who have been waiting years for a GP surgery and who have never had any of…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point on key infrastructure. Not only are we waiting for GP surgeries in my constituency, but we need a sewerage upgrade across my patch. We…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. We have given way to infrastructure, including HS2, motorways and data centres across the entire green belt with very little community…24 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI thank the hon. Member for his contribution and for his advocacy on this issue. [ Interruption. ] I will respond as I go through my speech; he has made a very sound point. This…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentMy right hon. Friend makes a good point. When we try to do the right thing, oftentimes we make a choice that has adverse consequences. What is telling about this decision was that…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentThis winter, pensioners across Beaconsfield, Marlow and the south Bucks villages felt abandoned by the Labour Government. Many across this country voted for a Labour Government in…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution, although the Office for Budget Responsibility contradicts what he is saying. The truth about this Government is that they talk a…19 Mar 2025