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HANSARDBeer Taxation and PubsI congratulate my hon. Friend on making an excellent speech about the importance of the pubs at the heart of our communities. We are losing so many community pubs because of the…28 Mar 2019HANSARD Permitted Development and Shale Gas ExplorationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. There can be no pretence to localism when the Government are riding roughshod over the voices and rights of local authorities and local people,…28 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillThe Government consulted on the ban on weapons ahead of the Bill and concluded, on the basis of evidence from the most senior counter-terror police in the country, that it was…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI would respectfully suggest that putting before Parliament orders that would criminalise children for up to two years requires more than discussion at a meeting. It requires full…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI thank those in the other place for their careful consideration of this Bill, which is certainly in better shape than when it left this Chamber. As the Minister has outlined, we…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeWe know you don’t like scrutiny—22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife Crime(Urgent Question) : To ask the Prime Minister if she will make a statement on her emergency summit on knife crime.22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeMay I, too, say many happy returns to the Minister and apologise for dragging her to the Dispatch Box for the second time this week? I am sure that she and you, Mr Speaker, will…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Gaza Border Deaths: UNHRC InquiryThe former Foreign Secretary intended to convene a summit of European and Arab Foreign Ministers and the Trump Administration to lay out his red lines for the US peace plan. Can…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Over two weeks ago at Prime Minister’s questions, the Prime Minister said that she would be hosting an emergency summit in Downing…21 Mar 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseIn a recent answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden), a Minister of State at the Foreign Office told him that the UK Government did not…21 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsThank you for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker. Just before Christmas, you welcomed Sammy Woodhouse to this Parliament. You, the Leader of the Opposition, the Prime…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal Records(U rgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to make a statement on criminal records disclosure for victims of child sexual exploitation.19 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy constituent has a connective tissue disorder that has left her bedbound for three months because she regularly dislocates her joints. Despite evidence from her GP and…18 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementAlthough any extra money for the police is welcome, officers will be looking on in horror to find that it is due only on overtime as they are so overstretched already. We know…13 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Offensive Weapons Bill bans the online sale of offensive weapons to residential addresses, but it has revealed a significant gap in the legislation around the sale of…07 Mar 2019HANSARDCPS: Serious and Organised CrimeDoes the Solicitor General agree with the Chancellor that, rather than new money being spent, knife crime and serious and organised crime should simply be prioritised? If he does,…07 Mar 2019HANSARD Leaving the EU: Protection for WorkersFresh in the minds of those of us who feel scepticism about the commitments made by the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister will be the fact that his party, in coalition…06 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife Crime(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary if he will make a statement on knife crime.04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThank you very much, Mr Speaker, for granting today’s urgent question. I thank the Home Secretary for making time to respond to it. Today, the House is united in grief and shock…04 Mar 2019