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HANSARDAviation SectorHaving failed to secure a sector-specific deal from the Treasury, the industry is recovering much more slowly than our international competitors, and now we have the spectacle of…03 Feb 2022HANSARDSouth Western RailwayI am sure that the whole House will join me in wishing my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi) a speedy recovery from covid. Rail commuters in towns and suburbs across the…03 Feb 2022HANSARDMotor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) BillWe drive on the left.28 Jan 2022HANSARDMotor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) BillWhat an excellent finish to the contribution from the right hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Sir Mike Penning). I will get on to the £50 bonus in a few moments. I congratulate the…28 Jan 2022HANSARDMotor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) BillIt is indeed met by motorists, who are hard pressed in this cost of living crisis. A few people veered slightly off the highway in the debate. There were terrific contributions…28 Jan 2022HANSARDDraft Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 (Airspace Change Directions) (Determination of Turnover for Penalties) Regulations 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Rees. I note that I am beginning to see more of the Minister in these Committee Rooms than I actually see my wife! I will try…12 Jan 2022HANSARDDraft Transport Act 2000 (Air Traffic Services Licence Modification Appeals) (Prescribed Aerodromes) Regulations 2022It is pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Miller. I thought that the Minister was gesticulating wildly, but it was only part of his explanation about planes over 7,000…11 Jan 2022HANSARDCareers Guidance in SchoolsI am delighted to serve under your chairmanship today, Ms Rees, and to follow my parliamentary neighbour, the right hon. Member for Tatton (Esther McVey). We share the second…11 Jan 2022HANSARDDraft International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation (Legal Capacities) Order 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray; I know that you have a keen interest in this area. I agree with the Minister’s eloquent explanation of what this…06 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateDisraeli gave his one nation speech in Manchester in 1872; I doubt he would recognise the party political knockabout that the Prime Minister is engaging in over a national crisis.…05 Jan 2022HANSARDTransport and Logistics: Labour ShortagesI have to say that we on the Labour Benches are not feeling the Christmas love from the Secretary of State today. Neither have we been invited to his last couple of Christmas…16 Dec 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Government Support for BusinessSacha Lord, Greater Manchester’s night-time economy adviser, just said: “100,000’s staff hours are being slashed up and down the UK, due to cancellations. A large proportion”— of…16 Dec 2021HANSARDDraft Merchant Shipping (control and management of ships’ ballast water and sediments) order 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. I never thought, coming into politics, that I would be talking about ballast waste water from shipping—we are…15 Dec 2021HANSARDDraft Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021It is pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. I am disappointed that Bolton Wanderers are slipping slightly in the league table, but I am sure they will turn the…08 Dec 2021HANSARDFibrodysplasia Ossificans ProgressivaThe right hon. Member heckles me: he will hold me to that, and so he should. He will not find me wanting. It is a great honour to talk about FOP today. I am here on behalf of a…06 Dec 2021HANSARDFibrodysplasia Ossificans ProgressivaIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger, and a real honour to follow the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Elliot Colburn), whose speech was…06 Dec 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareI was born in the then relatively modern maternity unit at Wythenshawe hospital in my constituency. After 53 years, I am afraid one of us is beginning to look a little old and…03 Dec 2021HANSARDAirport and Ground Operations Support SchemeI will do, Ms Nokes. What we are saying is that this package is not good enough. It will lead to a weaker industry—no longer the third strongest on the planet—and it will stop us…29 Nov 2021HANSARDAirport and Ground Operations Support SchemeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. On behalf of the Labour party, may I commend you on your extraordinary personal bravery recently? It will help women…29 Nov 2021HANSARDDraft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2021It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. In 35 years of knowing you, that is the first time I have referred to you as Mr Stringer. I have referred to you as…29 Nov 2021