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HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Government Chief Whip is a Minister but, by convention, does not make statements from the Dispatch Box. So will the Leader of the House please give confirmation on accusations…30 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and Hamas: Humanitarian PauseMy constituent Adam Abu Warda has close family in Gaza and is extremely anxious that they should have the opportunity to get out and come to the UK, as other MPs have said. What…27 Nov 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseSuch a creep!23 Nov 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseQuite rightly— [ Interruption . ] If the Scots can stop their spat for a moment. This country quite rightly maintains a list of the crown jewels of sport and of our sporting…23 Nov 2023HANSARDPrison CapacityThe Secretary of State’s emergency early release scheme is meant to tackle a capacity crisis that is entirely of this Government’s making, and it excludes only serious violence.…21 Nov 2023HANSARDPrison CapacityArgument weak? Go long and do not answer the question—the classic response from this Government. The truth is that without any Government announcement of a start date, prisons…21 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ8. The Prime Minister has just said that David Cameron had unprecedented experience, so what would he say was his finest foreign policy achievement? [ Laughter. ]15 Nov 2023HANSARD Artificial Intelligence Safety SummitI thank the Secretary of State for her statement. On her reference to poetry, may I remind her that AI creates nothing? It generates a facsimile of text, but it does not create…09 Nov 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseMay I ask a question about business in the new Session? The Government asked the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to scrutinise and report on the draft Media Bill and were also…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Ann ClwydHaving sat for many years next to Ann on this very spot on the Back Benches, and on the other side of the House as well, I want to echo my hon. Friend’s remarks about Ann’s…19 Sept 2023HANSARDSentencing: Offender AttendanceThank you, Mr Speaker. I suspect the Minister might anticipate what I am going to ask him because I am beginning to think the Department should be renamed the Department for…12 Sept 2023HANSARDElection GuidanceIs the commission preparing any guidance about this new trend we have of Members of this House, who may be candidates at the next election, being given their own TV programmes on…20 Jul 2023HANSARDElection Guidance3. Whether the Electoral Commission has issued recent guidance on elections to political parties and candidates.20 Jul 2023HANSARDCreative Industries: Skills and TrainingLast night was the summer reception of UK Music, and I was there as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on music, along with the shadow Secretary of State and the Chair of…20 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023On a point of order, Mr Pritchard. I am slightly confused by what is going on. I came here as I have been selected to attend the debate on the Postal Packets (Miscellaneous…17 Jul 2023HANSARD NATO SummitIn welcoming the Prime Minister’s statement, I gently encourage him to adopt a slightly different tone rather than phrases such as “new-found affection” for NATO. He knows the…13 Jul 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseCan we have a debate on secondary ticketing? As the father of a Swiftie— I know that the shadow Deputy Leader of the House, my hon. Friend the Member for Newport East (Jessica…13 Jul 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the Leader of the House for taking up the issue I raised the other week about legal aid fees in asylum cases. I did as she always encourages people to do and raised it…06 Jul 2023HANSARD Rail Ticket OfficesThe hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) was right: sometimes it is just too complicated to purchase a ticket without using a ticket office. I recently had…06 Jul 2023HANSARD Hong Kong Pro-democracy ActivistsMy constituent Carlos Auyeung has written to me about significant distress and fear in the Hongkonger community caused by the exerting of extraterritorial enforcement on British…06 Jul 2023