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HANSARDBusiness Rates: Retail, Hospitality and LeisureThe Minister does not have to defect to Reform to get a pint, and I am very happy to show him round the pubs in Shropshire’s villages and market towns. I will show him that pubs…19 Jan 2026HANSARDProposed Chinese EmbassyFollowing on from my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis), I too would be very surprised, as a co-author of the Intelligence and Security…19 Jan 2026HANSARDSale of FireworksOrder. Some hon. Members are standing. It is only convention that Members sit on a particular side of the room. Perhaps there will be a cross-party love-in today; we have started…19 Jan 2026HANSARDSale of FireworksOrder. I remind Members to bob if they wish to speak—I think that is happening right now, so thank you. Given the popularity and importance of this debate, there will be an…19 Jan 2026HANSARDSale of FireworksI call Gideon Amos. I will then call Amanda Hack.19 Jan 2026HANSARDSale of FireworksYou have 10 minutes—that is a joke.19 Jan 2026HANSARDSale of FireworksBefore I call Gagan Mohindra, let me say that, while the screen on my left is not showing the time, the screens behind me and on my right are. Members should be conscious of…19 Jan 2026HANSARDSale of FireworksI will call Sarah Dyke, then Juliet Campbell, and then Gideon Amos.19 Jan 2026HANSARDSale of FireworksI will call Dr Scott Arthur, Sarah Hall, Kirsteen Sullivan and Elsie Blundell, and then I will vacate the Chair for my replacement. I call Dr Scott Arthur.19 Jan 2026HANSARDWest Midlands PoliceI commend the Home Secretary for her robust statement and the leadership she has shown this afternoon. On community relations, can she assure me and other Members that lessons…14 Jan 2026HANSARDStorm GorettiWill the Minister join me in putting on record my thanks to West Mercia police, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, West Midlands ambulance service and all the local government…13 Jan 2026HANSARD IranCan the Foreign Secretary reassure the House that freedom and justice—rather than the pursuit of oil and gas, however important that might be—will remain at the heart of British…13 Jan 2026HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I seek your guidance. Since Christmas, hundreds of my constituents have not received a single letter via the Royal Mail. That is causing…13 Jan 2026HANSARD Rural CommunitiesI will vote against it!07 Jan 2026HANSARD Rural CommunitiesWill the Minister give way?07 Jan 2026HANSARD Rural CommunitiesIt is humid in here. I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. She is talking about important subjects for all our communities, including infrastructure, SMEs and transport.…07 Jan 2026HANSARD Rural CommunitiesIs the shadow Secretary of State aware of the great concern in Shropshire among the rural community, in particular farmers, that the Government are conflating lethal firearms with…07 Jan 2026HANSARD Ukraine and Wider Operational UpdateI welcome the Defence Secretary’s statement today, but I want to press him a little on a vote in Parliament. In his statement—it is pretty much the same wording as the Prime…07 Jan 2026HANSARDPlanning ReformThis is a dark day for Shropshire’s green belt—places like Albrighton and Shifnal in my constituency—for the remaining green belt in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, in places…16 Dec 2025HANSARD Electoral ResilienceI welcome the Rycroft review. In an earlier reply, the Secretary of State said that the role of the Electoral Commission will be in scope. If that is the case, it needs…16 Dec 2025