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HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingI will. I hope that was not related to my mentioning George Osborne. We want to thank him for introducing the sugar tax, which has made a huge difference. Sugar in soft drinks has…24 Oct 2019HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingCould I have just one minute, Ms Buck, given that the hon. Gentleman intervened?24 Oct 2019HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingIt is a pleasure and honour to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Buck—for the first time, I think. I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing this debate,…24 Oct 2019HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingI say yes to the hon. Gentleman on all those points—I agree with them all. I will come to the sugar tax later, but I can take a chunk out of my speech by saying that I agree with…24 Oct 2019HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingThat is extremely important. I support the DAFNE programme and the work being done on the conversion to sugar. That brings me on to the sugar tax—a great achievement of the…24 Oct 2019HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingI think Ms Buck might object.24 Oct 2019HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingNo, she will allow it.24 Oct 2019HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingWell, I will go on longer, then—excellent! That makes me feel much better. I hope the Minister will come and visit the Merlyn Vaz Health and Social Care Centre. People like me and…24 Oct 2019HANSARD Diabetes: Tailored Prevention MessagingWith a new Minister, we get a new broom and, therefore, a fresh pair of eyes. The collection of data is a key issue. We have tabled parliamentary questions to Ministers and asked,…24 Oct 2019HANSARD Procedure for Appointing JudgesI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate, and I join him in congratulating the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry) on the…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Procedure for Appointing JudgesI am most grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for giving way. May I declare my interest, which I forgot to do earlier, as a non-practising barrister? My wife is a…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Procedure for Appointing JudgesI am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way for a second time and enabling me to tempt him a little further. The cut-off age has deprived us of some pretty…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Arms Export Licences (Saudi Arabia)The Secretary of State’s apology is welcome, but the narrative is shameful. In August this year, 236 Yemenis were killed, and the bombing raids reached 20,000. Last week, a bomb…26 Sept 2019HANSARDCeasefire in YemenMr Speaker, it is a great honour to have you in the Chair at the time of the presentation of petitions on the issue of Yemen. The petition calls for the Government to pursue an…24 Jul 2019HANSARDYemen Peace ProcessI beg to move, That this House notes that 22 May 2019 is the 28th anniversary of the unification of Yemen, when that country emerged from a long and painful civil war; further…23 May 2019HANSARDYemen Peace ProcessThe hon. Gentleman is very experienced. He is a distinguished former Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee and his presence for this debate is extremely important. I remain…23 May 2019HANSARDYemen Peace ProcessThis has been an excellent and passionate debate, fully justifying the decision of the Chairman of the Backbench Business Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead (Ian…23 May 2019HANSARDYemenI join the shadow Foreign Secretary and others in commending the incredible work of the right hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt). This is a grim anniversary.…26 Mar 2019HANSARD YemenI am most grateful to Mr Speaker for granting this debate. I am glad to see the Minister for the Middle East, the right hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt),…28 Feb 2019HANSARD YemenI absolutely agree and I pay tribute to the hon. Lady for all the work that she has done on Yemen, keeping this issue very much alive in this Parliament and elsewhere. She is…28 Feb 2019