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HANSARD Winter Fuel PaymentThe cut to winter fuel allowance and the subsequent U-turn have caused much anguish, distress and misery to the parliamentary Labour party. Judging by the questions from the…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Environment Agency: East of EnglandI will give another example from Kent. In Tunbridge Wells in my constituency, the River Grom often has very high levels of ammonia due to sewage being dumped in the river. When…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesThe right hon. Member is making a very important point. This issue is important across the whole socioeconomic spectrum. I had a relatively privileged upbringing, but my first job…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I thank the right hon. Member for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge (Sir Gavin Williamson) for securing what is…04 Jun 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Does the hon. Lady agree that the Tory/Reform Brexit has been a complete disaster for our economy?04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank the Chief Secretary for the statement. Giving money out to mayors to fix transport—there is nothing to disagree with in that. Kent, which as he knows is the UK’s strategic…04 Jun 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I’ll take that as a yes.04 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesOn a point of order, Ms Jardine. It seems that the hon. Gentleman is confused and in the wrong debate. This is a debate about business rates, but he spent his entire time talking…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]rose —03 Jun 2025HANSARD Armed Forces Commissioner BillRecently, General Sir Roly Walker, Chief of the General Staff, said that he was “ashamed” by the stories of sexual misconduct—predominately crimes committed against women in…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]The Minister is being extremely generous, as he always is. I pressed him on this point on the last occasion when we met across the Chamber, but some time has passed since then. He…03 Jun 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]In Tunbridge Wells, buses are not a luxury: they connect schoolchildren to their classrooms, the elderly to their communities, carers to patients, and people unable to drive to…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Government AnnouncementsIt is not just the House as a whole; the Defence Committee also was not given advance sight of the report. Committee members were left texting journalists over the weekend to find…02 Jun 2025HANSARDUK Nuclear DeterrentI am in favour of this new method of delivery, which gives us more options and probably makes it less likely in the long run that nuclear weapons will be used. However, cost is…02 Jun 2025HANSARDStrategic Defence ReviewThis defence review gives us a long shopping list of technological advances—the cyber command, digital backbone, drones, AI—and that is right and proper, but the British military…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I am grateful to the Minister for giving way; he is being very generous, although I might suggest that he works on his queuing system a little bit. I understand that the timetable…14 May 2025HANSARDGaza: UK AssessmentVery few issues in politics, particularly international politics, are black or white, but this is one such issue. The Israeli Government are using collective punishment of the…14 May 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Will the Minister give way?14 May 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]rose —14 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThe hon. Lady is a great fan of honesty in this Chamber, so I am sure that she will give me an honest answer. One way of understanding Brexit is that it replaced a circular flow…13 May 2025