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HANSARDGroceries Code Adjudicatorrose—03 Jun 2025HANSARDGroceries Code AdjudicatorThe right hon. Gentleman flatters to deceive, I fear. He is right about the way grocery supermarkets go about their business, but much of the problem is the way they choose to go…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Inheritance Tax: Family-owned BusinessesI could be wrong, but I am pretty sure that the guidance from His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs states that, at present, where there is 100% relief, valuations for BPR are done on…03 Jun 2025HANSARDThames WaterUnder the £3 billion loan that Thames Water has negotiated, the first drawdown of £1.5 billion will be on 30 June, which is less than four weeks away. That is contingent on Thames…03 Jun 2025HANSARDGroceries Code AdjudicatorIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dr Allin-Khan. I congratulate the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) on securing time for this debate…03 Jun 2025HANSARDGroceries Code AdjudicatorThe difficulty is that the review of a limited regulator is always going to bring up a limited answer. What we need is something much more holistic. Just to take one small…03 Jun 2025HANSARDStrategic Defence ReviewThe review describes responsibility for space policy within Government as “fragmented”, so its proposal for a “reinvigorated Cabinet sub-Committee” to set the strategic approach…02 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ3. On Friday, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee published its report on the Government’s vision for agriculture. The Committee agrees with the Government that…21 May 2025HANSARDGaza: UK AssessmentDoes the Minister accept that, where prima facie evidence of genocide exists, awaiting for the determination to be made formally by a court is not sufficient for us to meet the…14 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT9. I apologise, Mr Speaker; I had not realised that my name was on the Order Paper.13 May 2025HANSARD Speaker’s StatementFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Thank you for allowing this quite exceptional but fitting tribute, which I am sure will give some comfort to Sir Roy’s wife Dawn and…13 May 2025HANSARDTrade NegotiationsFor those of us who have Scotch whisky industry interests in our constituency, it is very welcome news that apparently globalisation is not dead after all. The Minister speaks…06 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesWhen the previous Government looked at supporting energy-intensive industries, they included within the definition brewers, cider makers and wine makers, but not distillers,…01 May 2025HANSARDUS Trade Negotiations: Farming7. What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the potential impact of his trade negotiations with the US on the…01 May 2025HANSARDUS Trade Negotiations: FarmingThe Secretary of State in DEFRA recently appointed Baroness Batters to lead a profitability review in farming and has set up a farm profitability unit in the Department. Those are…01 May 2025HANSARD Safety of Humanitarian Workers: Conflict ZonesMy hon. Friend is making a significant speech on something that should concern us all. Does he agree that wherever these abuses are found, whether in Gaza, Sudan or any other…30 Apr 2025HANSARDPalestinian Authority Prime Minister VisitIf our Prime Minister can meet the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, and if the United Kingdom Government can enter into a memorandum of understanding with the…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Ukraine War: London TalksI have nothing new to say about this, but since I was one of those included yesterday in the list of those who were no longer welcome in the Kremlin—not that I had thought I ever…24 Apr 2025HANSARD EU Trading RelationshipThe hon. Gentleman is making a very good point. I have given up days of my life to helping to free up fish exporters from Shetland from red tape, but the truth is that although we…24 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. Press reports earlier this week indicated that negotiations with the EU around security and defence were to be linked to the review of the trade and co-operation agreement, in…24 Apr 2025