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HANSARDFinancial Exclusion: Access to CashIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Henry. I draw attention to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I am also the chair or vice-chair…21 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsLast week in this Chamber, the Prime Minister said that the Leader of the Opposition is “The biggest threat to our standing in the world, to our defence and to our economy” —[…03 Apr 2019HANSARD Permitted Development and Shale Gas ExplorationThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak today. It is a pleasure to follow my near neighbour, the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Louise Haigh). It is also…28 Mar 2019HANSARD Permitted Development and Shale Gas ExplorationI completely agree with my hon. Friend. We absolutely have to give local communities their own say. The community I represent in Marsh Lane has been clear that it does not want…28 Mar 2019HANSARDFracking (Seismic Activity)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require fracking operators to monitor seismic activity caused by fracking and take steps if such activity exceeds certain…19 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUHon. Members do not understand the democratic deficit that is coming out and that is completely obvious in places like my constituency and elsewhere. This is not about us. We have…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUEighty-four days ago I last spoke in this Chamber on Brexit and since that time nothing has fundamentally changed: the EU remains as intransigent as ever and people in this place…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK as a Financial Services HubIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Bim Afolami) on securing this debate; in my…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Balanced Budget RuleI could not concur more with my hon. Friend, as I will address in my next paragraph. Putting this into context, about 8% of all current Government spending is diverted towards…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Balanced Budget RuleI thank everyone who came to the debate—word clearly got out and everyone came in towards the end to hear its quality. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Alex…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Balanced Budget RuleI beg to move, That this House has considered the balanced budget rule. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I am extremely pleased to have secured this…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Balanced Budget RuleI was talking about how legislative solutions are applied, what is already in place and the charter for budget responsibility. My point was that in non-financial areas of…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Balanced Budget RuleBefore we went to vote I was talking about the moral case for low debt and ensuring that the servicing of that debt was as minimal as possible, to retain and support our ability…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Balanced Budget RuleGiven the hon. Gentleman’s point about us binding our hands, can he explain why, in 2006, I think, his sister party in Chile not only determined that it was going to adopt the…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Balanced Budget RuleI completely agree that we have a big job to do after Brexit, in terms of ensuring that our infrastructure works and that our country is well prepared for the future and has the…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Apprenticeships and Skills PolicyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I am not quite sure how I follow that tour de force, not least because towards the end of his comments, the hon.…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Apprenticeships and Skills PolicyI am conscious of time, so I will make my other two points. The first has already been made by others, so I will not dwell on it, but it concerns the need for skills training to…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Apprenticeships and Skills PolicyExcellent. I have none of the one-liners, wit or repartee of either my right hon. Friend or the hon. Gentleman, so I will move straight on to the debate as a whole. I congratulate…08 Jan 2019HANSARD Apprenticeships and Skills PolicyAs a former scout, I completely agree.08 Jan 2019