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HANSARD Business of the HouseI am delighted that the hon. Lady wants to celebrate the great achievement of my noble Friend Lord Hague, who was the Minister who piloted the Disability Discrimination Act…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The growing popularity of the poppy appeal in the past 20 years has been a wonderful expression not only of popular patriotism, but of an…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend is right to say that Wiltshire is a great county, because in 878 it was on the right side of the battle of Edington, where Alfred defeated the Danes and where the…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI know that this matter came up in the debate yesterday and that the Paymaster General, my right hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth North (Penny Mordaunt), responded to say…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI refer to what I said earlier: there has been an extraordinary success in procurement, which had to be done quickly and everybody wanted it done quickly. For example, the vaccine…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseBefore I come to the right hon. Lady’s specific questions, I have been asked to make right hon. and hon. Members aware that the 18-month review of the independent complaints and…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI have the greatest sympathy for what the hon. Lady has set out, and I have some direct knowledge of the issue—not with my own children, but from children who are closely…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseIt would obviously be wrong for me to comment on a specific case, but my hon. Friend raises a concerning point. If people have, in a generality, given evidence to a trial on the…19 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about that. Members of Parliament are key workers and should not be treated any differently from other key workers, many of whom have been…19 Nov 2020HANSARDElectoral CommissionI beg to move, That the Committee has considered the motion, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that Her Majesty will re-appoint Dame Susan Bruce DBE as…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesMadam Deputy Speaker—I got it right this time and actually noticed that there had been a change of Chair—I am grateful to the hon. Lady for the point that she raises. It is…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesIt is nice to see the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar back and smiling at us. We missed him greatly in the debate last week on parliamentary boundaries. As he was not there,…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesI am grateful to the hon. Lady for the point she makes and for her attendance at the House. I recognise that the issues she raises are problems for right hon. and hon. Members.…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesIf anyone looks around the Chamber, they will see that we are not working normally. It is not a question of working normally: we see the markings on the floor, the tape, the…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesI hope Hansard got a bit more of that than I did, but I think I got the fundamental point. We have made the right provisions to ensure that people can come to the House and can…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesWhat I have said is that those who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be able to have remote participation, I hope, subject to a motion before this House. There is no…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesI doubt the hon. Lady can see, but the shadow Leader of the House is nodding. I know everyone here wishes her well. As I said earlier, this is a balance between ensuring that…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesThe hon. Lady and I simply disagree on whether the House can operate effectively remotely. We have the experience to go on of May and June when it did not work effectively. The…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesThe hon. Gentleman might have been well off listening to my hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham (Bob Stewart), who has left his place but said that he had already heard the…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesMy hon. Friend puts it absolutely perfectly: this is all a question of balance and trying to ensure that Members can participate—particularly those with difficult circumstances,…16 Nov 2020