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HANSARD Oil Refining SectorThe right hon. Member is absolutely right that it is a courtesy, but my understanding—I think he will understand this, too—is that it is not an obligation. On this occasion it was…11 Dec 2025HANSARD Oil Refining SectorOrder. The Question is—11 Dec 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThis week, in the wake of COP30, devastating floods across south-east Asia have affected the people of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, with 1,300 estimated to have died. Here in…04 Dec 2025HANSARDDawn Sturgess InquiryMy thoughts, too, are with the family of Dawn Sturgess. In 2010, Putin said: “Traitors will kick the bucket, believe me.” Post-Litvinenko, how can it be that our country can…04 Dec 2025HANSARDOfficial Secrets Act and EspionageI thank the Minister for his comments, and I thank Mr Speaker for granting this urgent question demonstrating the importance of parliamentary security, safety and sovereignty. The…03 Dec 2025HANSARDOfficial Secrets Act and Espionage(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will make a statement on espionage cases and the Official Secrets Act.03 Dec 2025HANSARD Budget ResolutionsI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. That was one of the great failings of the last 14 or 15 years; when interest rates were at record lows, that was the time as a nation to…26 Nov 2025HANSARD Budget ResolutionsHere we are three years on from the Tory Truss kamikaze Budget. It is worth recalling just how bad that was—absolute carnage, with interest rates rocketing and mortgage market…26 Nov 2025HANSARD Official Secrets Act Case: Witness StatementsI am pleased that the Government published the witnessed statements last night, but clearly there are a lot of questions yet to be asked in terms of how this came about and what…16 Oct 2025HANSARD Police and Crime Commissioners (Accountability and Review)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision about the accountability of police and crime commissioners; to make provision about the measurement of…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Consumer AffairsI beg to move, That this House has considered consumer affairs. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. You will be familiar with the expression “knowing…11 Sept 2025HANSARD Consumer AffairsThere are other products available, Dame Siobhain, but I will not give an entire list of them. Whatever someone’s guilty pleasure is, though, the products that they have grown up…11 Sept 2025HANSARD Consumer AffairsSeveral hon. Members around the Chamber raised the differential pricing between in-town and out-of-town stores. The points the Minister made are totally right, but when retailers…11 Sept 2025HANSARD Consumer AffairsI thank all those who participated in the debate. It is a Thursday afternoon, and I would have anticipated that a lot more people would have wanted to speak to this issue. I…11 Sept 2025HANSARD Consumer AffairsI should have congratulated my hon. Friend at the very beginning on his appointment—a very warm welcome, Minister, to the role. He talks about dynamic pricing and ticketing. He…11 Sept 2025HANSARD Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian AccessOn that point, it is quite clear, as we have seen, that the number of deaths we have seen at the food distribution centres run by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—something like 3% of…10 Sept 2025HANSARDClimate Change: Food Security1. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of climate change on food security.04 Sept 2025HANSARDClimate Change: Food SecurityThree of the UK’s five worst harvests have been in the last five years, and this year is looking particularly concerning, with yields likely to be down and margins for farmers on…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Strategy for ElectionsThe Minister will be aware that the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, which I chair, has been doing a lot of work on defending democracy. I am sure we will…17 Jul 2025HANSARDHospitality SectorIn my constituency, Lydia and Frankie both run businesses that employ around 50 individuals. They both have covid loans and energy loans on top of the usual business pressures…17 Jul 2025