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HANSARDPublic HealthThese measures are doing great damage to the livelihoods and incomes of many of my constituents and people around the country, and they are also damaging to our freedoms and…04 May 2020HANSARD Finance BillI have declared my interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. At the time of the Budget it was a very different world. The Government were forecasting a little bit…27 Apr 2020HANSARD Economic UpdateI am delighted that the Chancellor recognises the need for burden-sharing on employment costs in badly affected sectors such as tourism, travel and hospitality, but will he also…17 Mar 2020HANSARDIncome tax (charge)Will the Government look again at the issue of the hospitality, travel and leisure industries? Some of those businesses are losing not just 10% or 20%, as they might in a normal…16 Mar 2020HANSARDCovid-19Will the Secretary of State make sure that in the legal powers and guidance will be provision to ensure that all our councillors who are over 70 can participate fully in council…16 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsDoes my right hon. Friend not accept that in these very exceptional circumstances the rules have to be flexed for the temporary expenditure on the virus consequences, just as even…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsMy right hon. Friend and I think that, but more importantly, that is what the Scottish people voted for just a few years ago, when we very wisely and democratically said, “Yes,…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsThere is a £6.6 billion saving this year on interest on Government debt anyway, but of course there has been another major collapse of interest rates since those figures were put…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsI have declared my business interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, although I am of course not speaking for them. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ilford…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsLet us hope that that is right, yes. We hope that the City gets better at managing the gap between those who say they have all this long-term money and the projects that are…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillCould the hon. Lady give the House some guidance on the amendment proposed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and the…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI agree. I have supported my right hon. and hon. Friends and I have not wished to bore the House by repeating all their excellent arguments, but of course the fact that the United…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI support my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and my other right hon. and hon. Friends, who have made a strong and cogent case…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillWhy is there no sense of urgency about getting the alternative capacity in? This is not a unique technology to the Chinese company. These are potentially massive orders. Put it…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI thank my right hon. Friend for highlighting and leading on this crucial issue; I fully support him. Will he confirm that there is technology outside China that would do this job…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillWill my right hon. Friend confirm that in the important talks between the US and China, the issue of intellectual property theft and the legitimate defence of western technology…10 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingDoes the Secretary of State agree that too much building on floodplains is not helpful and that in future we should be much more restrictive and then try to deal with the backlog…04 Mar 2020HANSARD High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill: RevivalDoes not the short debate this evening show that the project is very different from the one that the previous Parliament approved, and that the Opposition have invented a magical…02 Mar 2020HANSARDMinisterial CodeI am someone who strongly supports the work that the Home Secretary is doing to make sure we are secure and to have a new borders policy. Can the Government guarantee that this…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPoints-based Immigration SystemWell done to the Home Secretary on taking back control of our borders and ending low-pay migration. Will she confirm that 10 months is more than enough time for talented officials…24 Feb 2020