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HANSARDChannel Crossings in Small BoatsI congratulate my right hon. Friend on the robustness of her language and her clear desire to stop irregular crossings. Poland has very much welcomed international assistance; I…22 Nov 2021HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Decision of the Houserose —08 Nov 2021HANSARDCommittee on Standards: Decision of the HouseI have just been outside the Bar of the House. The hon. Member is making a point about sanctions; I wonder whether this might be helpful. I am interested to hear that there is…08 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) BillMy right hon. Friend, who represents the same part of the world as me, will be aware of the horrendous event in 2012, when 44 sheep had to be euthanised at Ramsgate harbour. It…25 Oct 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) BillJust on that point about the use of Ireland as an access country, I refer my hon. Friend to clause 42(3), which does include the term “British Islands”. To my mind, that provides…25 Oct 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement: New ZealandI congratulate my right hon. Friend on achieving this agreement in principle. Can I assume that it follows very similar lines to the agreement with Australia, so that we can have…21 Oct 2021HANSARDDraft Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2021First, I have a declaration of interest: I had a fledgling interest in an airline start-up that came to an end after 9/11 in 2001, and did not get any further. Covid has hit this…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Motor Insurance: Court JudgmentsIt is very kind of the Minister to give way, and I welcome her to her new post. As outlined by my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Sir William Cash), there are European Court of…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillI am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for highlighting some of the fiscal drags that have been beneficial to the Treasury. In terms of asset price inflation, which has…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillThe hon. Gentleman is talking about a two-tier system. Is he saying that the millions of people in the public sector and the not-for-profit sector who have auto-enrolled pensions…14 Sept 2021HANSARD Health and Social Care Levy BillIn common with my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron), I am wondering—I think many of us are—why we are here today. We have a fiscal event, the autumn…14 Sept 2021HANSARDEngagementsQ7. Will my right hon. Friend offer me an answer for my constituents of the future, as they sit around a tepid radiator powered by an inefficient and expensive air source heating…08 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that assistance. The matter was tested at the Court of Appeal in front of no less than the Lord Chief Justice, who ruled in summary that…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillThank you for calling me to speak, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is good to be higher up the batting order. I want to highlight to the House that I serve on the Speaker’s Committee on…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillHas my right hon. Friend looked at schedule 1, which contains a very broad list of valid means of identification? I would be very surprised if anybody in the country today did not…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillI thank my right hon. Friend for that interesting observation. We have all heard this on the doorstep. When people say, “Oh, I’ve lost my card”, we say to them, “Don’t worry, just…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillI thank the House for its forbearance during those troubled years, and I hope Members will support at least that part of the Bill.07 Sept 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceMy right hon. Friend is making a fantastic argument, as he always does in this place. I have interweaved these new regulations into where they would fit in the Health and Social…13 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateFrom previous answers given, I am delighted that my right hon. Friend is now looking at the underlying settings of the Track and Trace app—I ask him to do that as a matter of…12 Jul 2021HANSARD CoronavirusI want to discuss two sides of the science—science as the liberator and science as the captor. We have seen through this process that new vaccines have been created using…16 Jun 2021