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HANSARDEnergy (oil and gas) profits levyIf I am not mistaken, we have just increased substantially the national living wage, increased benefits in line with inflation and increased pensions in line with inflation,…22 Nov 2022HANSARDEnergy (oil and gas) profits levyAbsolutely—that is a crucial issue. We need to start working with those people to help them back into a workplace environment. They are better off there: if people are out of…22 Nov 2022HANSARDCOP27I thank my right hon. Friend for getting our environmental strategies back on track. We clearly have a major issue not simply about carbon, but about the loss of biodiversity both…09 Nov 2022HANSARDUniversal Credit: Housing Element16. If he will review the calculation of the housing element of universal credit.31 Oct 2022HANSARDUniversal Credit: Housing ElementI congratulate the new ministerial team on their appointment. The challenge in a constituency such as mine in the south-east and inside the M25 is that, even when the Government…31 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Investment and DeforestationI beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require banks and investment institutions regulated in the UK to verify and certify that they do not provide any form of…17 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateI congratulate my right hon. Friend: he has hit the ground running in his job. These are difficult decisions, but they are the correct decisions right now. We all aspire to tax…17 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Investment and DeforestationIf I am allowed to. Am I? No.17 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Investment and DeforestationMadam Deputy Speaker, I know how passionately the hon. Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner) feels about this issue. I am glad to number him among the Bill’s sponsors. Even…17 Oct 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty The QueenI am very grateful to be able to participate in this solemn occasion, one that we all knew would happen but that, in our heart of hearts, we all hoped would not. It is a day of…09 Sept 2022HANSARD Financial Services and Markets BillMay I pursue the point about environmental issues? I take my hon. Friend’s point about the need to secure the stability of the sector—that is not in dispute—but one of the things…07 Sept 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondIt is a great pleasure to be speaking in the debate this afternoon. While I do not always share the views of the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), I agree with…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI absolutely agree with that. I hope that he or she—whoever is elected—will do that. One of the questions I have been asking the candidates is, “Will you protect and keep up the…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI do not often agree with the right hon. Gentleman, but I absolutely agree with him on that point. None of us in this country should be buying tropical hardwoods for furniture or…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondI apologise for popping out briefly for a family call. Last summer, I went to the far north of Scotland. The further north we got, the more insects hit the windscreen. As more…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and Beyondrose —14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondBut if we do not help them to grow their GDP—and do that in a sustainable, nature-friendly way that enables them to derive real benefits from the proper stewardship of that land,…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and BeyondThis is why my argument is around a real focus on the restoration of degraded land. Semi-desert subsistence farmland will never deliver anything for anyone except an impoverished…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of WestminsterThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We went through all this seven years ago. It is hugely frustrating to me that we are here seven years later still working out what to…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of WestminsterOne of the reasons why those of us who sat on the Joint Committee seven years ago—it is sad that so much time has gone by—did not look to do this in-house was that we judged that…12 Jul 2022