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HANSARDInternational Human Rights DayIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dame Maria. I congratulate the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Margaret Ferrier) most warmly on her success in…08 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI offer myself as an interlocutor for the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham). His entreaty to the Minister was that we should not forget England. Between now and Saturday…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportThat is a perfectly fair point. I make the comparisons, but I do not want to set one technology off against another; that is not in the interests of the industry. It is important…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI beg to move, That this House has considered Government support for marine renewables. It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Hollobone, and I am grateful to see a…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to draw attention to the fact that all these projects are on track with their timescale. However, the timescale we heard about at the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDPost Office: GLO Compensation SchemeWe are not quite at the end of the road, but there is a sense today that perhaps the end of the road is in sight. I echo colleagues in taking a great deal of comfort from the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI very much agree, and I should acknowledge the support that the hon. Lady has given to EMEC over the years. I am grateful for the support from across the political spectrum, all…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportIf the hon. Member wants to send me his CV, I will keep it on file for when I next have a vacancy for a speech writer. I am at risk of being too consensual, but he knows my views…07 Dec 2022HANSARDVoter ID: Turnout Levels10. Whether the Committee has held recent discussions with the commission on the potential impact of different forms of voter identification on levels of voter turnout.01 Dec 2022HANSARDVoter ID: Turnout LevelsThings have moved on since then. We now have the detailed proposals from the Government and we can see a number of concerns—in particular, the massive imbalance between the ID…01 Dec 2022HANSARDAnti-lockdown Protest in Shanghai: Arrest and Assault of Edward LawrenceWhat happened to Edward Lawrence was not a one-off or isolated incident. It is part of a deliberate strategy to ensure that reporters in China do not tell the rest of the world…29 Nov 2022HANSARDCommunity Energy SectorCommunity energy schemes such as Hoy Energy Ltd in Orkney perform a really important role in the community by reinvesting their profits in local schemes and projects. Will the…29 Nov 2022HANSARD Saudi Arabia: Death Penalty and Spike in ExecutionsI have lost track of how many times we have been round this course with regard to Saudi Arabia in recent years. Every time, we get the same formulations from those on the Treasury…28 Nov 2022HANSARDSpaceflight SectorThe news that the Secretary of State will visit Shetland, I think for a second time, will be welcomed by all in the county and particularly in Unst. SaxaVord has three European…24 Nov 2022HANSARDScottish Referendum Legislation: Supreme Court DecisionThe judgment today puts the point beyond any measure of doubt, and that is to be welcomed. I also welcome the announcement from the Scottish Government that they will respect the…23 Nov 2022HANSARD Support for British FarmingThe hon. Gentleman risks triggering me—if my children were here, I think that is what they would say—because that is a theme on which I have spoken many times. He is absolutely…23 Nov 2022HANSARD Support for British FarmingThe hon. Gentleman is right about the contribution of biosecurity to tackling avian influenza, but does he agree that, because of the interaction between the wild bird population…23 Nov 2022HANSARD Support for British FarmingIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel), and to be able to say—unlike, perhaps, on some occasions when she was in the Home Office and I shadowed…23 Nov 2022HANSARD National Security BillIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright), who did the House a great service in bringing to us in four minutes…16 Nov 2022HANSARD National Security BillIt is worth reflecting and placing back on the record that we know the names of Belhaj and Boudchar only because somebody happened to find the papers unattended after the fall of…16 Nov 2022