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HANSARD Public Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportIt is a shame the Chancellor is not here today because the Treasury needs to get a better answer to the question from the right hon. Member for Central Devon (Mel Stride) and…13 Oct 2020HANSARDPlaces of Worship: Covid-19It is clear from what the Secretary of State has said that he recognises that in these troubled times places of worship are more important than ever in providing for the spiritual…05 Oct 2020HANSARDPlaces of Worship: Covid-19What steps his Department has taken to help places of worship open safely during the covid-19 outbreak.05 Oct 2020HANSARDBritish Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill (First sitting)My hon. Friend rightly identifies the role of the British Library, a great British institution doing a lot of work in this country, but is it not also part of our international…30 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19It is nice to be informed, nice to be consulted and nice to be able to scrutinise, but in the end it is about who decides. Can the Secretary of State explain why he is so against…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19We should be grateful to the Secretary of State today for his frankness, but we should not necessarily accept his binary choice between his way and a mass spread of the virus.…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19There has been much mention of the success of a vaccine, but first, it is unclear when that is likely to be, and secondly, surely even if we have a vaccine, it will not be 100%…28 Sept 2020HANSARDEnd of Eviction MoratoriumI find it incomprehensible that the Minister has not taken the opportunity to cut the Gordian knot and deal with section 21 and the need to protect decent, honest tenants who are…23 Sept 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I press the Secretary of State further on the fleet solid support ships? Back in July in reply to my right hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr Jones), he said…21 Sept 2020HANSARDCoronavirusPeople in Sandwell and Birmingham certainly want to know why their whole boroughs are being suddenly locked down and not just the currently affected areas within them, but they…15 Sept 2020HANSARDDRAFT REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974 (EXCEPTIONS) ORDER 1975 (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020
DRAFT POLICE ACT 1997 (CRIMINAL RECORD CERTIFICATES: RELEVANT MATTERS) (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020Surely both propositions are absolutely self-evident. Why did we drag it all the way through the Court of Appeal and up to the Supreme Court—wasting years carrying on with it—when…14 Sept 2020HANSARDDRAFT REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974 (EXCEPTIONS) ORDER 1975 (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020
DRAFT POLICE ACT 1997 (CRIMINAL RECORD CERTIFICATES: RELEVANT MATTERS) (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020If we take the case of W, the Supreme Court would have said, “As we understand the law, as the law is, this is what you should do.” The Minister said that the Supreme Court gave…14 Sept 2020HANSARDDRAFT REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974 (EXCEPTIONS) ORDER 1975 (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020
DRAFT POLICE ACT 1997 (CRIMINAL RECORD CERTIFICATES: RELEVANT MATTERS) (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020Right hon. Gentleman.14 Sept 2020HANSARDDRAFT REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974 (EXCEPTIONS) ORDER 1975 (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020
DRAFT POLICE ACT 1997 (CRIMINAL RECORD CERTIFICATES: RELEVANT MATTERS) (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020Five thousand people are still stuck in the system, which will not give way. Frankly, it is that indifference—that contempt for ordinary people—that, bluntly, in previous eras of…14 Sept 2020HANSARDDRAFT REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974 (EXCEPTIONS) ORDER 1975 (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020
DRAFT POLICE ACT 1997 (CRIMINAL RECORD CERTIFICATES: RELEVANT MATTERS) (AMENDMENT) (ENGLAND AND WALES) ORDER 2020It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ghani. I thank the Minister not only for writing to me, but for an informal briefing on the subject under discussion today.…14 Sept 2020HANSARDInternational TravelFinally, in that last answer, the Secretary of State actually acknowledged that we have a major aviation sector, which is hugely important to Britain and to Britain’s place in the…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Birmingham Attacks and Extinction Rebellion ProtestsMy hon. Friend the Member for Croydon Central (Sarah Jones) on the Front Bench rightly commended the people of Birmingham for going calmly about their business today.…07 Sept 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.21 Jul 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsWell, that is a very welcome announcement, but I draw the Secretary of State’s attention to the tsunami of job losses now facing us. What industry needs right now is orders to get…21 Jul 2020HANSARD UK Internal Market: White PaperThese structural arrangements are enormously important, but they go only so far, because so are political culture and drive to ensure that we get Britain back to work. Yet…16 Jul 2020