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HANSARD Funeral Plan IndustryI appreciate that the Minister has been very helpful with what he has described. However, my fear is that some of those small companies may keep trading and taking money off…26 May 2022HANSARD Funeral Plan IndustryDoes the hon. Lady share my concerns about some of the practices and sales techniques that are used to get people to sign up to these plans? She has already mentioned that people…26 May 2022HANSARD Funeral Plan IndustryWill the Minister give way?26 May 2022HANSARD Funeral Plan IndustryDoes the hon. Lady agree not only that it needs to be clear what people are purchasing, but that if the people selling the plans are receiving commission —in some of the examples…26 May 2022HANSARD Funeral Plan IndustryI thank the Minister for his explanation. My fear and, I think, that of the hon. Member for Telford (Lucy Allan) is that there may well be other companies like Safe Hands out…26 May 2022HANSARD Funeral Plan IndustryIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. I thank the hon. Member for Telford (Lucy Allan) for securing this debate. As the hon. Lady said, this debate…26 May 2022HANSARD NATO and International SecurityI agree. We took our eye off the ball. But I will not have lectures from the right hon. Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox), who was the one who withdrew our troops down in Germany…19 May 2022HANSARD NATO and International SecurityI again put on record my thanks to the Secretary of State for his leadership during the present crisis. One of the challenges facing NATO, which may seem quite boring to many…19 May 2022HANSARD NATO and International SecurityI agree. The argument is clear: NATO is a nuclear alliance. SNP Members always refer to other countries in NATO that do not have nuclear weapons, but those countries have a…19 May 2022HANSARD NATO and International SecurityI begin by thanking the members of our armed forces—the men and women who work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to keep us safe. I also put on the record my thanks to our NATO…19 May 2022HANSARD NATO and International SecurityI concur with what my right hon. Friend has said, but is it not the case that we now need to be making the case for deterrence, so that when Putin is providing maps and threats of…19 May 2022HANSARDUkraine UpdateI thank the Secretary of State for his statement and commend his leadership and that of his team throughout this crisis. He has already outlined an impressive list of equipment…25 Apr 2022HANSARD Sub-Postmasters: CompensationI thank the Minister for his statement. I congratulate him on moving this matter further than his predecessors who made pathetic attempts and showed such ignorance. The Treasury…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Sub-Postmasters: CompensationTo ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy if he will make a statement on the steps taken to ensure that the group of 555 sub-postmasters are…22 Mar 2022HANSARD National Shipbuilding StrategyI draw the House’s attention to my non-pecuniary interests entry in the Register. I welcome the Minister’s statement. In his original report, Sir John Parker emphasised the…10 Mar 2022HANSARD Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Warley (John Spellar) for opening the debate. He is right that our thoughts today are with the people of Ukraine and the brave…09 Mar 2022HANSARD Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22They are all submarines!09 Mar 2022HANSARD Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22indicated dissent.09 Mar 2022HANSARD Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22My right hon. Friend is right, but these measures were not about that. They were about the Treasury making austerity cuts. We now have a situation where the present…09 Mar 2022HANSARD Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22It is worse than that. The Department used to hide behind European regulations, but now we are out of the European Union, we should be free to procure in the UK. I challenged the…09 Mar 2022