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HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationMy own experience, and I have the scars to prove it, goes all the way back to the mobile infrastructure project. My experience has always been that the mobile operators will only…24 Jan 2024HANSARDExtreme Weather Events: ResilienceEven by the standards of what we are accustomed to in the northern isles, the last week has been exceptionally disruptive. I associate myself with the previous expressions of…24 Jan 2024HANSARDExtreme Weather Events: ResilienceYou would not have done that last week!24 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dame Maria, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan) on securing this debate. It is hardly…24 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationThere’s a problem in this building!24 Jan 2024HANSARD Human Rights in Hong KongThis is possibly the most important part of the many aspects of the destruction of freedom and liberty in Hong Kong: the absence of a free and fair court system. It shows why…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismI place on the record my support, and that of my party, for today’s measure. The right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) gave a lot of important…18 Jan 2024HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismIs the Minister aware that Zeyno Baran of the Hudson Institute has observed that the British chapter of Hizb ut-Tahrir is the “nerve centre” of the international movement? As is…18 Jan 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseThe House will recall that on 2 January the Prime Minister posted on X: “I said that this government would clear the backlog of asylum decisions by the end of 2023. That’s exactly…18 Jan 2024HANSARDPersonal Smartphones: Government BusinessI may be part of a very small and shrinking group, but I think it is sensible that Ministers, officials and advisers should be able to share their thinking and thoughts in private…18 Jan 2024HANSARDPersonal Smartphones: Government Business13. What recent assessment he has made of the prevalence of the use of personal smartphones for conducting Government business by Ministers and officials.18 Jan 2024HANSARD Defined-Benefit Pension SchemesI almost entirely agree with my hon. Friend. The way in which the BP pension fund works is that the trustees have virtually no discretion up to 5%, and then from 5% to 9% there is…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Defined-Benefit Pension SchemesI agree with most of what the Minister is saying, but there is something more that comes into play here, which is the question of light-touch regulation. Light-touch regulation…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Defined-Benefit Pension SchemesIt absolutely does. Representing a constituency that had the Sullom Voe oil terminal managed by BP for many years, I suspect that the reasons why the hon. Gentleman has Shell…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Defined-Benefit Pension SchemesI beg to move, That this House has considered the regulation of defined benefit pension schemes. After the heat of the debate on High Speed 2 that has just ended, I hope that we…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Defined-Benefit Pension SchemesThe hon. Gentleman strikes at the reasons why I brought forward this debate. We might benefit from a wider and longer ventilation of the issues at some later stage, but we have 30…17 Jan 2024HANSARDCost of Living: PensionersWhile we are on energy prices, I am acutely aware that, as we speak, pensioners in my constituency are having to brave serious snow conditions and, because we have the highest…16 Jan 2024HANSARDParty Spending Limits: Impact on the Democratic ProcessThe Daily Mirror reported at the weekend that the Conservative party is already spending more on the Prime Minister’s Facebook page and adverts than Donald Trump is spending on…11 Jan 2024HANSARDParty Spending Limits: Impact on the Democratic Process9. Whether the committee has had recent discussions with the Electoral Commission on the potential impact of increased electoral party spending limits on the democratic process.11 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemWe do know a few facts here, and one of the facts we know is that the scheme has been in the making for 18 months. In that 18 months, the money that has been spent on it would…09 Jan 2024