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HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend says she bangs on, but this is clearly not true. She stands up for her constituents and seeks redress of grievance in the right and historic way that Members of…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Lady is so right to bring this issue to the attention of the House. Yes, I would like to thank Ben and Ben for what they are doing, which sounds wonderful and…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI do indeed. I was not there at the time, but I was paying close attention to events. I have always thought that our great county is thought of by the people living within it as…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Government take this issue with the utmost seriousness and have been doing a great deal to help care homes, including issuing more than 100,000 tests a day to care homes…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend, as he so often does, puts his finger on the right issue. Shop workers have been fantastic, phenomenal and brave, because they all stayed at work at a point when we…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Gentleman raises a very valid point: anything that we send out on paper is heavily regulated, and things that are done online are almost unregulated—not entirely, but…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend raises an important issue, and I understand that it has been rumbling on for quite a few years in Hertfordshire. It is for local authorities to develop their…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe hon. Lady raises something that it is absolutely right to raise in this House. The activity in Xinjiang against the Uyghurs is an egregious breach of human rights and the sort…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI assure my hon. Friend that the Government are offering huge support for rural broadband, including £5 billion of taxpayers’ money committed to fund gigabyte-capable broadband in…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI know that that issue is close to my hon. Friend’s heart, as he is a volunteer special constable. I take this opportunity to thank and commend him for his public service in that…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseWe should take such pride in the history that is displayed through the art in this House. It might be a slightly Whiggish view of history, but if we go to Committee Room 10, we…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseWe miss the hon. Gentleman too and look forward to seeing him back here in due course. I was pleased to note that he asked a question to the Secretary of State for Health and…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI have a nasty feeling that when my hon. Friend says “incompetent Lib Dem-run council”, he is guilty of a tautology. I have not yet come across a competently run Lib Dem council.…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseAgain, the hon. Gentleman is so right to raise this matter. We are all, individually, champions for our constituents, and it is our job to seek redress of grievance when they are…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseI am very well aware of the concern my right hon. Friend raises, because it has been raised with me by my own constituents, and I am aware of farmers’ concerns about sky lanterns.…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThank you, Mr Speaker. The business for next week will include: Monday 5 October—Second Reading of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill. Tuesday 6…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseWe all wish the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne) and, of course, Florence well. It is a brave thing to do. I used to live in Hong Kong, and the mid-autumn…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseNot to vote, they didn’t. There will be opportunities to vote on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, and there will be a debate on Tuesday 13 October—which happens to be the…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The work done by the St Cross hospital is fantastic. It is so important that people with very serious illnesses should receive the best…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe House has made the decision, quite rightly, that debates require personal participation. Debates do not run properly when people are remote and interventions are not possible.…01 Oct 2020