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HANSARDDigital IDIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Furniss. I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore) for his powerful introduction —he is…08 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and he spoke powerfully in his contribution. I am sure that today we will hear no answers from the Minister, because behind this policy sits no…08 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDThe hon. Member makes a powerful point. The truth is that channel crossings will continue until the Prime Minister puts in place a real deterrent and accepts that the “smash the…08 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDrose—08 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDOne challenge is that we have had so few of the facts, because this is such a thin plan. The other challenge is that although there are people who support digital identity as a…08 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDI completely agree. On the one hand, the Government claim there is no money left. On the other hand, they can suddenly find billions for bizarre schemes or the Chagos islands, or…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is very tempting to ask the Secretary of State whether she is on Team Wes or Team Keir, but from the sounds of it today, she is on Team 4% Kendall. I will ask instead about one…12 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsTeam UK, not Team Keir—I understand. The whole mandatory ID scheme hangs on the promise to curb illegal migration, but the Secretary of State can provide no numbers on that—not a…12 Nov 2025HANSARDLife Sciences Innovative Manufacturing FundI thank the Minister for his statement—or perhaps I should call him October’s cover star for The House magazine. The Conservatives back today’s motion on the life sciences…22 Oct 2025HANSARD Ada Lovelace DayIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Furniss. I feel I should donate some of my minutes to some of the other hon. Members present, who, by the time they had…16 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDNearly three weeks ago, the Prime Minister unveiled a plan for mandatory digital identity that will fundamentally shift the balance of power between citizen and state. He did not…13 Oct 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentI hope you will give me the same flexibility if I go a little over my time, Mr Speaker.11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences Investment(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology if she will make a statement on the cancellation of life sciences investment.11 Sept 2025HANSARDLife Sciences InvestmentLast night, US pharmaceutical giant Merck cancelled the construction of a £1 billion drug research centre in the Prime Minister’s constituency. Eight hundred jobs that were going…11 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThank you, Mr Speaker. I welcome the new Secretary of State to her place and, of course, I welcome her stellar team. The Minister of State, Department for Science, Innovation and…10 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI fully agree with the right hon. Lady, but the number of civil servants has risen to a 20-year high under Labour. If somebody in the private sector led a reverse efficiency…10 Sept 2025HANSARDHigh Streets14. What steps she is taking to support high streets.14 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-France Migration: Co-operationI fear it is another week, another fig leaf from this Government on small boat crossings, which are up 40% under Labour. I hope this French deal works, but as my right hon. Friend…14 Jul 2025HANSARDHigh StreetsI hear what the Minister is saying, but our high streets are under enormous pressure because of Labour’s jobs tax and cuts to business rates relief. As good tax-paying shops shut…14 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesThe Chief Secretary to the Treasury seems to have only one line to survive this urgent question on behalf of the Chancellor, and that is to make reference to the former Prime…07 Jul 2025