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HANSARD Public HealthI just wanted to challenge the Minister on this “let it rip” point, as the Secretary of State has done that as well. I ask the Minister to take it from me that we all want the…06 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthI am grateful to my hon. Friend. My hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale West (Sir Graham Brady) pressed the Minister on this: if the evidence is not available as to…06 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthI am grateful to my hon. Friend for indulging me a second time. The point of our arguing for that was insisting that Ministers had to set out their arguments and the evidence. I…06 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthThe regulations were obviously made and brought into force ahead of the commitment that the Secretary of State made to the House last week. Given that the regulations that we are…06 Oct 2020HANSARDAreas with Additional Public Health Restrictions: Economic SupportA theme of many of the questions, and of some of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury’s answers, is predicated on the assumption that some of these economic support measures will…06 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthThe good thing about this debate and your having put in place a firm time limit, Mr Deputy Speaker, is that the Minister will have a great deal of time at the end to answer the…06 Oct 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)You’re obsessed by it.30 Sept 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)Because it is not necessarily clear outside the House, will my hon. Friend agree that what the Secretary of State has effectively confirmed at the Dispatch Box with just the one…30 Sept 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)I thank my right hon. Friend and the business managers for the work they have done in reaching this solution, and I hope, Mr Speaker, you will think that, following your stern…30 Sept 2020HANSARDInternal Market: Northern Ireland and Great BritainWhat progress his Department has made on ensuring unfettered access to the internal market for goods moving between Northern Ireland and Great Britain after the end of the…30 Sept 2020HANSARDInternal Market: Northern Ireland and Great BritainI am grateful to the Secretary of State for that answer, and I welcome the UK Internal Market Bill being passed by the House, because it does indeed put in place the benefit for…30 Sept 2020HANSARD Students’ Return to UniversitiesOne of the things that has worried a lot of university students is the idea that, if they either test positive or are a contact of someone who tests positive, they might have to…29 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his indulgence in taking a second intervention. I agree with him: unlike some people, I think we need to take tough measures to deal…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19It is a great pleasure to follow both the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington (Jeff Smith) and my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker). In my interventions on the…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19To develop the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh), I accept the points about scrutiny that the Secretary of State makes, but it is…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Proxy VotingMy right hon. Friend makes a very good point. All I ask the Leader of the House to think about is the fact that the big advantage of in-person voting—my right hon. Friend the…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Proxy VotingForgive me for referring to a matter that was dealt with a few moments ago. I knew I had read this and I just wanted to make sure that I was accurately quoting it, just to help my…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Proxy VotingI am intervening on my right hon. Friend only because he mentioned the subsequent motion on Westminster Hall. I was not going to bring it into scope myself. I do not know whether…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Proxy VotingI will endeavour to be brief, and to pick up a number of points that other Members have made. First, I support the motions on the Order Paper, and I welcome them. Perhaps I can be…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Proxy VotingI have discussed this matter with the Leader of the House, and I agree with the right hon. Lady’s point about participating in legislative debates. It is good that we have enabled…23 Sept 2020