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HANSARDCovid-19When exactly did the Government start buying extra ventilators? How many more have they managed to get? How many more do they need?16 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsDepending on which briefing to today’s newspapers was accurate, the infrastructure announcement will fund a grand total of either 250 or 1,000 miles of new designated cycleway.…11 Feb 2020HANSARDBBC Licence FeeFor the second time today, may I recommend that a Minister reads the most recent Select Committee report on this issue? Chaired by the Minister’s excellent colleague, the right…06 Feb 2020HANSARDAir PollutionIf the Secretary of State has read the unprecedented four reports in the last Parliament by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee—chaired by the hon. Member for…06 Feb 2020HANSARDCivil PartnershipsRegardless of that, I think it was discourteous of the bishops not to inform the Second Church Estates Commissioner. The legislation was passed overwhelmingly in this House with…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseWhen will the Government re-establish the Intelligence and Security Committee so that it can resume its very important work, including publishing the much-awaited Russia report?…06 Feb 2020HANSARDCivil Partnerships7. Whether the Commissioners were consulted on recent guidance by the Church on civil partnerships; and if he will make a statement.06 Feb 2020HANSARD Global BritainIf the 15-year damage to our economy is not to be the 6.7% or 9.3% respectively for the so-called Canada deal or no deal, which the Government are now trying to rebadge as an…03 Feb 2020HANSARD5G Network and HuaweiCan the Minister assure me that this decision, the one on the digital tax and all the other important decisions facing our country will be based on what is in our national…27 Jan 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee Report on RussiaWelcome, Mr Speaker. Given the gaps and inaccuracies in his account of the three years that he spent in Russia, why was Dominic Cummings inexplicably granted the highest developed…05 Nov 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy right hon. Friend refers to people feeling frustrated, bored and fatigued. Does he agree that none of those things is an excuse for making what could be a very, very bad…22 Oct 2019HANSARD Preparations for Leaving the EUThe business and local authority organisation representing Devon and Cornwall—the Heart of the South West local enterprise partnership—wrote to the right hon. Gentleman last week…08 Oct 2019HANSARD HMRC Impact Analysis: CustomsThe Minister keeps claiming that his preference is for a deal, but is it not clear from the fictional briefing given by Dominic Cummings of the conversation between Chancellor…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsBreaking the Good Friday agreement, putting at risk 20 years of peace, creating two new hard borders and a smugglers’ paradise in Northern Ireland, and scrapping all the labour…03 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsDid the Prime Minister, as The Times reports today, receive a request from President Trump for help in trying to discredit the Mueller report and the role of British and American…02 Oct 2019HANSARDNHS Hospital ProjectsThis is just a fraction of the hospital building programme that took place under the last Labour Government. Why on earth should anyone believe a single word this Government say,…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Irish Border: Customs ArrangementsLet us try again. Can the Minister simply confirm that any new physical checks or infrastructure, whether at the border or away from it, would be illegal under the Good Friday…01 Oct 2019HANSARDCompliance with the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019People watching will notice that the Minister has been at the Dispatch Box for nearly 40 minutes and has repeatedly failed to answer a simple question, which I will put to him…26 Sept 2019HANSARDProrogation (Disclosure of Communications)Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman tell the House whether he intends to put on the record any of the details of the information he says he received? The worry is that if he…09 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillWill my right hon. and learned Friend reassure me that we will not fall into the trap being set by the Prime Minister, and that we will not support a general election before not…04 Sept 2019