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HANSARDLegal MigrationDoes my right hon. Friend think it would be a good idea to have a cap on the number coming in?04 Dec 2023HANSARDAutumn StatementHas my right hon. Friend given any consideration to, and has the Treasury carried out any analysis of, the effect on economic policy of mistaken forecasts from the Office for…22 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Neil Coyle). I am also grateful to the Minister for his thorough engagement on these matters. He has…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI join in congratulating my hon. Friend on his appointment and on this very wise amendment. It is fundamental to the rule of law that people who are fined large amounts of money…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI am delighted to support the amendments in the name of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buckland). It is important to get the balance…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI think that everyone wishes to achieve the same objective, so I do not quite understand why His Majesty’s Government do not accept the amendment of my right hon. and learned…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that this issue has come to people’s attention because of Nigel Farage. I will talk about that case in a moment, but what has emerged is…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThe hon. Gentleman is misinformed. Mr Farage was only offered any new bank account with NatWest rather than Coutts when the story became public. Prior to that, he had not been…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI agree with my hon. Friend that it does go much further. Some time ago, the Bank of England issued a document suggesting that loans should not be given to companies investing in…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI am talking about the banking system generally, and I am saying that it is important that people should have banking facilities regardless of their political views. It is…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDebate on the AddressI certainly welcome this King’s Speech, particularly because at the end of the King’s Speech we saw—I see a former Lord Chancellor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and…07 Nov 2023HANSARDDebate on the AddressMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right but at least, thanks to this King’s Speech, it may be a little bit more British gas that we will be getting out, and that of course should…07 Nov 2023HANSARD Retirement of the Clerk of the HouseOne of the great virtues of the Clerks—and particularly of the Under Clerk of the Parliaments—is that whether we are the most junior, most recently elected Member or the Leader of…12 Sept 2023HANSARDHormone Pregnancy TestsMay I join others in paying tribute to the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi), who has done such terrific work campaigning on this issue? She commandeered me as we…07 Sept 2023HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I know that raising this takes up time in itself, but I am concerned that we now have just about three hours, including for the…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]In my point of order earlier I said that this was a 328-page Bill. That was what it was when it came from the House of Lords; it is now a 427-page Bill, which we are expected to…05 Sept 2023HANSARDEngagementsDoes my right hon. Friend share my unease that a bank that has the Government as its largest shareholder should close the account of a senior opposition politician? Will he use…19 Jul 2023HANSARD Liaison CommitteeI apologise for not being in the Chamber for the start of the debate, but I have been listening to my hon. Friend carefully on the television.17 Jul 2023HANSARD Liaison CommitteeThis is such an important debate and my hon. Friend is raising such an important point about the fundamentals of the Liaison Committee. Do I understand from what he is saying that…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023Further to that point of order, Mr Pritchard, it seems to me that these issues raise serious matters of privilege, which obviously have to be referred to Mr Speaker confidentially…17 Jul 2023