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HANSARD East Midlands Rail Franchise(Urgent Question): To ask the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on why Stagecoach has been disqualified from bidding for the east…11 Apr 2019HANSARD East Midlands Rail FranchiseThank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing this urgent question. The Minister did not really answer the question. Abellio has been awarded the contract as the best bidder, but the bid of…11 Apr 2019HANSARD Waste Incineration: RegulationThe hon. Gentleman has been here long enough to know that that is not a point of order.09 Apr 2019HANSARD Waste Incineration: RegulationOrder. The Minister has made it clear she is not giving way.09 Apr 2019HANSARD Waste Incineration: RegulationOrder. We need a bit of order in this debate. The Minister has made it absolutely clear that she is not giving way to the hon. Members. Can we please get on with the debate? She…09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingI take the Minister back to my intervention about social housing. Let us go back to 2010. The biggest cut in expenditure that the coalition Government brought in was a 60% cut in…09 Apr 2019HANSARDDevolution of WelfareI am going to start the winding up speeches at 10.28 am.09 Apr 2019HANSARDDevolution of WelfareSeven Members wish to speak, so that is about five minutes each. That is guidance, not an absolute rigid time limit, but please stick to it, otherwise colleagues will not get…09 Apr 2019HANSARDDevolution of WelfareWe move on to the Front Benchers, who will each have 10 minutes. That will leave a couple of minutes for the mover of the motion to wind up. I call Neil Gray for the SNP.09 Apr 2019HANSARDDevolution of WelfareI call Mike Amesbury for the Opposition. [Interruption.] Order. Calm down a bit, please.09 Apr 2019HANSARDDevolution of WelfareI thank the Minister and other colleagues for keeping within the time limit. John Lamont has a minute to wind up.09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingThe Minister is quite right that we are going to need a whole variety of different types of houses and tenures to hit the 300,000 target. How many homes does he think will be…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Waste Incineration: RegulationI hope it is a point of order, Mr Sheerman.09 Apr 2019HANSARDHomes for Social RentThe Secretary of State will have noted that the question is specifically about social rented housing. If we are to achieve an overall target of 300,000 homes a year, does he…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Permitted Development and Shale Gas ExplorationThe Minister has talked about having faster applications. Can he explain how precisely that would be done in a way that allows communities to be fully consulted? Furthermore, as I…28 Mar 2019HANSARD Permitted Development and Shale Gas ExplorationI am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake), my fellow member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee. Our Committee…28 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportI thank all Members for their co-operation; that is very good indeed. We move on now to the Front Benchers, who will have 10 minutes each, so that there are a few minutes for the…27 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportOrder. I ask the remaining three speakers to limit their speeches to five minutes.27 Mar 2019HANSARDModern Slavery and Victim SupportI have seven hon. Members wanting to speak, which gives us about six minutes each. I ask hon. Members to respect that, please.27 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillI thank the Minister for meeting my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield) and me and I also thank her colleague in the House of Lords for doing the same. I…26 Mar 2019