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HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)The right hon. Lady’s definition of “recent” must slightly differ from mine. The Menai suspension bridge was built in 1826, at just about the time we were getting any sort of…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewFrankly, while we certainly need data, we also need decisions and action. Page 62 onwards of the Lammy report takes on the discredited Disclosure and Barring Service. That was in…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)Can we have some clarity on how the arithmetic works? Will Wales be taken as a block and allocated a number of seats, from which the protected seat would then be abstracted and…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)I ask the hon. Gentleman to reflect on the proposals of the previous boundary commission, which wanted to take one seat from the middle of Halesowen right the way through past…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)To reinforce the hon. Gentleman’s point, the Black Country is not Sandwell and not Birmingham, even though people outside think it is, yet that was not recognised by the boundary…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)So that’s a yes?25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. It has been a very instructive debate. It is very interesting—in some ways encouraging—to see that experts are back…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)That is a very fair and effective point. There also needs to be a check, therefore—they know that there will be a check further down the line, and that they do not ignore those…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)Actually, if I look back at the earlier clause for which that was a note, it was referring to constituencies that had 10,000 eligible voters and another one with 100,000. The OSCE…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)I must repeat what I just said: everybody accepts that population change, growth and reduction, urban clearances and so on have an impact. That has changed somewhat, because the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)I very much take my hon. Friend’s point. Fundamentally, the parliamentary approval finally acts as the constraint on the Executive, but also on the bureaucracy. I do not believe…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)The cat is out of the bag.25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)Not one denial that this is a change that is designed after, presumably, not a two-thirds majority but a simple majority of the House to do away with the Fixed-term Parliaments…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)Mr Paisley, I am prepared to end by conceding that there is clearly political naughtiness, and it is very much contained in clause 3(2).25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)It is in the east.25 Jun 2020HANSARDPlastic Waste Increase: Covid-19What estimate his Department has made of the increase in plastic waste as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.25 Jun 2020HANSARDPlastic Waste Increase: Covid-19May I suggest that the Department actually needs to get on and make some plans for this? We are talking about not avoidable but unavoidable plastic waste, because the covid-19…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)I say this in no way disparagingly, but the hon. Gentleman, who represents a seat in Scotland, may not be aware of the enormous changes that have taken place in the electoral…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us which football team he does support?25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)Briefly, several of the factors that the Minister outlined were blindingly obviously after 2015 as well. The population in this country was going up and there had been a…25 Jun 2020