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HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Support and AccommodationMy party’s responsibility—although I was not here myself—is not just for signing the contracts for the hotels; it is for losing control of our borders in the first place. The…20 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Support and AccommodationI thank the hon. and learned Member for his intervention. I am going to be a bit “beggar thy neighbour”-ish, I am afraid, but my reason for highlighting the Stanwell hotel is that…20 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Support and AccommodationWhen President Macron visited earlier this year, he said part of the problem was that there were far too many pull factors in Britain. Giving people the right to work would, to my…20 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Support and AccommodationThe hon. and learned Member said he met an asylum seeker at Napier barracks who said that they just wanted to be safe. Assuming that they had come from France, did he investigate…20 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Support and AccommodationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. In my constituency we have the Stanwell hotel, which is currently an asylum hotel. From correspondence in my…20 Oct 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesI thank and congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Goole and Pocklington (David Davis) on securing this emergency debate. The focus of the debate thus far has been…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights: Impact on BusinessesI think I am right in saying that the impact assessment’s estimate of a cost of £5 billion was at the higher end, but I read out quite an extensive set of quotations from the RPC…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights: Impact on BusinessesA few months ago, The Times invited the Chancellor of the Exchequer to address its CEO summit. Just before the Chancellor was called up to the stage, the host reminded the…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights: Impact on BusinessesWas the hon. Member affected by the tube strikes the other day?16 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights: Impact on BusinessesMy right hon. Friend makes a very good point. When these measures kick in, we could see the law of unintended consequences playing out, with a series of compound impacts. The RPC…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights: Impact on BusinessesI beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of employment rights on businesses. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. Members across the…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights: Impact on BusinessesI thank the Minister, the shadow Minister and all hon. Members who have contributed to this debate. I fear that it has been a bit of a conversation of the deaf, but we will see…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights: Impact on BusinessesWill the Minister give way?16 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingVery simple question: why are police numbers coming down under a Labour Government?15 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving way on the negotiations. He is making great play of the fact that the previous Government started the negotiations and that there were 11…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI am grateful to the hon. and gallant Member for giving way. On the pricing, he said that Government Front Benchers are putting it out that this is a good deal. Would it still be…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI do not know whether the hon. Member listened to the outstanding, forensic dismantling of the Government’s case by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kenilworth and…09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillWill the Minister give way?09 Sept 2025HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillIf the Minister is such a big fan of the social time discounting method that has been applied, will he tell the House where the social time discounting method has been used in…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Early Education and ChildcareI visited a nursery in Staines in my constituency, and the head there reported to me that, because of the charging regime and what they can and cannot charge for, every Saturday…04 Sept 2025