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HANSARDDraft Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023First time for everything.11 Sept 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ12. I would like to offer some assistance on the small boats issue. Has my right hon. Friend considered the incongruity of the fact that a UK dinghy manufacturer trying to sell…06 Sept 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration UpdateMy right hon. Friend will be aware of an unwritten deal, but a deal based on trust, that east Kent would not be facing any accommodation because of the pressure that Dover is…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]It is very welcome that the levy will not be applied on households as a direct cost they will see in their bills, but it is something of a sleight of hand just to push it further…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I suppose that the volume of my amendments probably speaks for itself, but I have a great interest in this Bill. I am aware of the limitation of time this afternoon, so I will…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend has it exactly right. Hence I feel that when we in this place are creating criminal penalties that could put our fellow citizens in prison for 12 months for…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend has put his finger exactly on the pulse. This is a substantial Bill. I say to the Minister that I hope the Government will strip out criminal penalties for…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend is making an excellent point about the extra energy provision that we need to make renewables work. Has he considered the true environmental cost of the…05 Sept 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ2. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 12 July.12 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsNew Labour’s old mantra was “Education, education, education.” Its new one seems to be “Tax education, tax education, tax education.” Does the Deputy Prime Minister share my…12 Jul 2023HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special ReportI feel the hon. Lady did not fully give an answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby (Lia Nici). How would the hon. Lady feel if, on a Monday, she had a letter from a…10 Jul 2023HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special ReportJust while we are discussing semantics —I am referring to the interaction that we had on what “impugn” might mean—the right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms…10 Jul 2023HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals)I pay credit to the Minister, and indeed to other Members, for outlining the huge number of animal welfare measures we have taken over our period in government, so I am a little…21 Jun 2023HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillDoes the hon. Gentleman really believe that non-doms who could pay zero inheritance tax in other places around the world and need not spend money any at all in the UK will just…20 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyI want to make progress; we have very little time this evening. We need to reduce immigration. We need to take measures to reduce internal relocation, which does happen within the…05 Jun 2023HANSARD New Housing SupplyVery little has been said about the reason we have such demand for housing and the problems with planning at the moment. My right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden…05 Jun 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ2. I have a serious matter affecting every constituency to bring to my right hon. Friend’s attention. Amazon has been facilitating the sale of counterfeit postage stamps from…17 May 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillMy right hon. Friend highlights the problem that different countries could indeed game the system. The peculiarity here is the domestic top-up tax. Even if, under the UK…29 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillI do not think that was a criticism from my hon. Friend, but I was trying to be kind and find some good news in what is a fairly miserable story on corporation tax. He makes a…29 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. This 6 percentage point increase is actually very big in percentage terms. The corporation tax increase is in clauses 5 and 6, and…29 Mar 2023