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HANSARD Birmingham Pub BombingsFifty-one years ago, on 21 November 1974, two bombs exploded in the heart of Birmingham, at the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one lives were lost and 220 people…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Birmingham Pub BombingsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: this is about the past, this is about truth and this is about justice, but she is right to say that this is also about the future. This is…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Birmingham Pub BombingsMy hon. Friend is exactly right. She speaks with such passion and eloquence about this issue. She knows as well as I do how deeply the families feel their pain. Since the…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1On behalf of our Committee, I welcome this report from Sir Wyn Williams. As Jo Hamilton has said, it unmasks the full horror of what was done to the sub-postmasters, including the…08 Jul 2025HANSARDTraffic calming measures on the slip road off Water Orton RoadI rise to present this petition on behalf of the residents of Water Orton Road, in Castle Bromwich in my constituency. It calls on Solihull council finally to take action to…01 Jul 2025HANSARD UK Modern Industrial StrategyI congratulate my right hon. Friend on the biggest remaking of the relationship between the public and private sectors for a generation. The business community in this country…23 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyMy hon. Friend is right. We have to be careful not to stray too far into the territory of our sister Committee, but once upon a time we built villages around factories; in today’s…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyThis was an important area of debate when we were framing our recommendations. We felt that where mayoral areas could show ability—that might be a limited number—they might be…12 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI very much welcome yesterday’s investment in UK energy abundance, but as our Committee pointed out on Friday, the success of the industrial strategy will depend on a plan to cut…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Perhaps the most critical test of the industrial strategy, when it is published, will be whether it brings industrial energy costs down. If…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyThat is absolutely right. The challenges we face as a country are so large that no one Department, business or sector can solve them on their own. The only way to crack the code…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyI rise to commend to the House the seventh report of our Select Committee and the combined brilliance of Committee members in setting out a plan, a blueprint and a framework for…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The evidence base we were able to assemble was an awful lot stronger because of her connections with small businesses in her constituency and…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyA very clear answer: leadership from the top—and that means coming from the Prime Minister directly.12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyI am grateful for that question. Again, the report is a lot stronger for the insights my hon. Friend was able to bring to what was a very sustained inquiry. We must recognise that…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyWe heard this message loud and clear from Harland and Wolff when we were there: long-term contracts, not year-to-year contracts, with real stability so that a genuine partnership…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyThe hon. Gentleman makes a really important point. We have heard time and again—we heard it in relation to life sciences, defence and clean energy—that we have some of the best…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Industrial StrategyThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. This report is an awful lot stronger for the raft of amendments that he brought forward, and for the thought and devotion he put into…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025This spending review is good for Britain’s business, because it invests in the things that British business needs: it invests in skills, infrastructure and innovation, cuts red…11 Jun 2025HANSARD Israel and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe barbarism of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government against the Palestinian people is beyond belief. We should not be negotiating trade deals with the Israeli Government, we should…04 Jun 2025