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HANSARD Business of the HouseAs ever, the right hon. Gentleman is a very big presence with his short question. He raises a topic that I know we all get many emails and complaints about. The Secretary of State…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThat was my hon. Friend’s first business question! I welcome him to the delights of business questions. They are normally followed by a compliment to me and an invitation to the…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseAs ever, alongside legislation we publish all the necessary documents, including the costings, which we have been transparent about. I gently say to the right hon. Gentleman that…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThis is not the first time that we have heard at business questions about the postcode lottery that remains when it comes to cancer care, particularly children’s cancer care. I…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMembers ask, “Where are they?” I think Reform Members are busy doing each other’s ironing— I do not know whether people have seen that. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. For a…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue. We have seen Members of this House from the Reform party going around the world savaging our rights to free speech in this…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Parkrun and junior Parkrun initiatives are fantastic at engaging people in daily activity to keep them healthy and at bringing them together, tackling other issues such as…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend rightly raises a really important issue, which she has explained better than I could, about the challenges of DNRs, particularly for vulnerable people, and I hope…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI am not sure whether any of the couples I mentioned at the beginning of this questions session got married in Gretna Green—maybe they can declare it if they did—but we are all of…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the hon. Lady for reminding me about the brilliant Lionesses’ triumph in the Euros earlier in the summer. I take this opportunity to congratulate them on that. The hon.…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend is a passionate and long-standing campaigner around those issues, and she has raised them with me many times. I thank her for all the work she does raising the…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI certainly join the hon. Member in congratulating and thanking the parents of Charlie—Harrison and Ellie—for their phenomenal fundraising efforts. Rare diseases such as the one…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWhat a wonderful story. I know that raising that issue in business questions helped the hon. Gentleman to secure that funding and that sponsorship, so that Lucas could go to the…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThere is an extremely high bar for proscribing any organisation, and that decision was not taken lightly. It was taken on very strong advice about the activities of Palestine…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank my hon. Friend and a number of other colleagues for continuing to campaign on and raise these important issues. As parents and constituency MPs, we all see the damage that…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI share the frustration, concern and indeed anger in many parts about the huge use of asylum hotels, and now HMOs, in dealing with the asylum backlog, which was left by the hon.…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend reminds us that the effects of the huge contract with Norway to build frigates in this country will be dissipated right through our economy and into constituencies…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI am very happy to have an ice cream, but I am not sure that the hon. Member’s constituents are quite ready to see me in a swimming costume just yet. I am pleased to hear that…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the hon. Member once again for her bravery and her powerful testimony. I know many of us continue to be appalled by the experiences she has had over a number of years in…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI think we all remember when the previous Government gave the contract for our passport production to a French company in the post-Brexit era. We all found it rather strange at…04 Sept 2025