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HANSARDUK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations and Transition PeriodThe Minister might know that I am a member of the Select Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union, which will be abolished next week. As a member of that…07 Dec 2020HANSARDArcadia and Debenhams: Business Support and Job RetentionMr Speaker, thank you so much for the opportunity to ask this young Minister to take a message back to No. 10 and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. As someone who worked in retail…02 Dec 2020HANSARDNet Zero Carbon EconomyWhat steps he is taking to ensure that his fiscal policy incentivises environmentally positive behaviour.01 Dec 2020HANSARDNet Zero Carbon EconomyEveryone in the House knows that the Chancellor of Exchequer does not like green waffle, so may I challenge the Front-Bench team to stop the rhetoric and start producing policies?…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Agricultural Transition PlanThe Secretary of State knows that I believe him to be an honourable man, but he is a member of a Government who are now notorious for their chumocracy and favours for friends.…30 Nov 2020HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastI ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether we can have the new infrastructure bank in Yorkshire, in particular in Huddersfield. Is he sure that he has paid enough attention to…25 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanWill the Secretary of State impart my question to the Prime Minister? Can I beg him at this late stage to change his mind? This is a national emergency, and his policy announced…23 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI am surprised that the Minister keeps evading the whole thrust of the urgent question he was asked. Why is he so terrified of parliamentary scrutiny? He can talk about chaos on…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesThe Leader of the House will know that I am a long-serving Member of Parliament and an active parliamentarian who so much wants to be back in the Chamber doing the job that I have…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 Lockdown: Homelessness and Rough SleepersNo one could accuse this Minister of being heartless or uncaring. I know her to be a woman of great integrity. However, I would put it to her that her Government have been in…11 Nov 2020HANSARDSupporting Disadvantaged FamiliesI know the Secretary of State to be a very pleasant colleague and woman, but I have to tell her that I have never seen such poverty in our land in all my 40 years in Parliament.…09 Nov 2020HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank my colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq), who has worked so tirelessly on this campaign. Perhaps we might try a slightly different…03 Nov 2020HANSARDEU Exit: Negotiations and the Joint Committeeindicated dissent.19 Oct 2020HANSARDEU Exit: Negotiations and the Joint CommitteeI have known the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster all his political career. May I urge him not to keep the door ajar but to open the door to continuing negotiations? Not to…19 Oct 2020HANSARDCountryside ProtectionWhat steps he is taking to protect the countryside.15 Oct 2020HANSARDCountryside ProtectionThe Secretary of State will know that he is popular in the House, and he is a very mild-mannered, pleasant chap. I want him to turn into some sort of ravening big beast, because…15 Oct 2020HANSARD Public Health Restrictions: Government Economic SupportMay I be helpful to the Chief Secretary, as I have been sometimes in the past? I am the Member of Parliament for Huddersfield in West Yorkshire; we are in tier 2 and, like so many…13 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMr Deputy Speaker, my former student—thank you. I say to the Secretary of State that we are talking about human beings working systems, and I warn him that there will be more…05 Oct 2020HANSARD CCRC Decision on 44 Post Office ProsecutionsIs the Minister aware that I chair the all-party miscarriages of justice group? I have never seen anything as awful as this: so many people’s lives made a misery; their…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Update and Hospitality CurfewThe Secretary of State knows that I can get passionate and even angry with some of my questions to him, but not today. He will know that as a West Yorkshire MP I will support…01 Oct 2020