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HANSARDInvestment in InfrastructureOf course it is always right to look for efficiencies and try to get better value for money for the taxpayer. As we look for spending cuts, could my right hon. Friend confirm that…11 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThank you, Mr Speaker. The UK has rightly frozen around £30 billion of Russian foreign currency reserves. A number of countries are moving from freezing those assets to seizing…11 Oct 2022HANSARDThe Growth PlanGrowth and cutting taxes are true Conservative principles, and so is balancing the books. By my calculations, based on the Chancellor’s announcements, the deficit this year will…23 Sept 2022HANSARD SanctionsI welcome my right hon. Friend to his place. He mentions family members who are associated with sanctioned individuals. He will probably be aware of, but unable to comment on, the…22 Sept 2022HANSARD SanctionsI will not detain the House for long. I very much welcome the measures and the reasons for them. As the briefing states, the current measures we have imposed through sanctions are…22 Sept 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty the QueenIt is a great privilege, on behalf of myself, my family—my mum, as an adoring fan of the Queen and the royal family, would have been particularly proud—and my constituents, to pay…10 Sept 2022HANSARD Financial Services and Markets BillThe hon. Lady is making interesting and key points about mortgage prisoners. At the time those loan books were sold, UK Asset Resolution made commitments to the Treasury Committee…07 Sept 2022HANSARDUnavoidably Small HospitalsIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate with you in the Chair, Mr Hollobone. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely) for tenaciously following up on this…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUnavoidably Small HospitalsI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. May I give an example of how the Government might calculate the figure? A hospital in my constituency in…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUnavoidably Small HospitalsOne of the Minister’s predecessors wrote to me on 28 October 2019 and said that a new community services formula was being used for hospitals such as Scarborough Hospital in my…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUnavoidably Small HospitalsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. His challenge may be even greater than ours in rural parts of North Yorkshire. Centralisation is a natural tendency for any organisation, of…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Contaminated Blood Scandal: Interim Payments for VictimsOne of the first meetings I attended after being elected to this place in 2015 was a meeting of the all-party parliamentary group on haemophilia and contaminated blood, and the…19 Jul 2022HANSARD Supply of Drugs to Children Under 16 (Aggravated Offence)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make the offence of supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug aggravated when the person to whom the drug is…19 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools BillI present a petition in the same terms. The petition states: The petition of residents of the constituency of Thirsk and Malton, Declares that the petitioners reject the…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementThe hon. Lady makes an important point. The point about the failure to prevent offence is, of course, that it does not just apply to the banks; it could also apply to the…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementI beg to move, That this House notes that economic crime costs the UK economy at least £290 billion per year; recognises that law enforcement agencies are significantly…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementThat is absolutely right. My hon. Friend has much experience and expertise in this area as the former Government anti-corruption champion. He is absolutely right that we are…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementThank you; that is right, whatever it means in English.07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementThat is the right question. These problems are not difficult to solve if people are willing to apply the right rules. On the money taken from my hon. Friend’s constituents, there…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementThe hon. Gentleman is right. The regulations are there but the penalties are not sufficient. The people within Danske Bank knew that they were doing wrong when they moved €200…07 Jul 2022