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HANSARDTB in Cattle and BadgersObviously we are quite short of time, but I will give way to my constituency neighbour.23 Oct 2019HANSARDTB in Cattle and BadgersMay I just continue? I will never finish my speech otherwise, and the Minister will need quite a lot of time to respond because of the excellent debate that we have had, even if…23 Oct 2019HANSARDTB in Cattle and BadgersThe one thing that has not been mentioned—I should have mentioned it myself, of course—is cattle vaccination. Such vaccination was always 10 years away, but I gather that it is…23 Oct 2019HANSARDHealth Visitors (England)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?23 Oct 2019HANSARDArmy PersonnelI thank the Minister for that answer, but he must be aware that since 2010 the number of service people has declined each year. The latest figures, which I believe are from 1 July…21 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Wilson. Here we go again. I shall get the Whip to put “CMO” on my gravestone—and I will be there sooner rather than later if we…21 Oct 2019HANSARDArmy Personnel1. What recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of Army personnel.21 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressThat is what we should have been prioritising in this Queen’s Speech, along with the abolition of universal credit, which has proved to be a monumental mistake. There was nothing…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressThe hon. Gentleman is being very generous in giving way. There is even better news: there is now—within five years—the prospect of a cattle vaccine. Under the old enzyme linked…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressI am grateful to my hon. Friend for bringing up that group of young people and for talking about carers. I made a point at a meeting that the continual contracting out of services…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressI am delighted to take part on the first day of our consideration of the Queen’s Speech, which was more about a political programme for the forthcoming general election than about…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gapes. Every time I see the initials CMO, I break out in a cold sweat. We have had this debate so many times that we never know…08 Oct 2019HANSARD HMRC Impact Analysis: CustomsWith regard to what my right hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr Bradshaw) just said, it is absolutely right that the Government—particularly the Chancellor of the Duchy of…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)In rising to respond, at least I have the satisfaction of knowing that we have not debated this measure before. I have been trying to find the one that was the missing thread…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)It is just like old times—we are back considering SIs, and it is good to see the Minister back in his place. I see Ministers rather like basketball players: they come and go, and…01 Oct 2019HANSARDPark Home Residents: Legal ProtectionThe hon. Gentleman makes a compelling case. One of the problems is that local authority officers have no experience in this area. It is vital that we give advice to residents…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Pesticides)I thank my hon. Friend. That is one of the things we waxed lyrical about in the previous incarnation of this debate where we looked at “may” replacing “shall” and “must”. That…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Pesticides)This is the most controversial of the four SIs that we have dealt with today, and we had a forthright debate on this subject previously in Committee. Much of that debate was about…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)The Minister is being very generous in giving way. What then is to stop people labelling their cheap plonk as burgundy and sending it in the form in which they send their good…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)I am delighted to be here for the second of our four statutory instruments. I want to push the Minister a bit further. He did not manage to answer one of the things that I slipped…01 Oct 2019