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HANSARD Committee on StandardsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes a point that I am going to make in slightly more detail.03 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsI am, as always, grateful to the hon. Gentleman, as he proves my point. The pieties espoused from the other side about being non-partisan are always undermined by the hon.…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsBecause the rules are not being treated in that way. The exemption exists for whistleblowing, which I will come to.03 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsMr Speaker, my hon. Friend has made a mini-speech very pithily.03 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, because that helps me to get back to the point about process. The 2015 Committee on Standards report on “The Standards System in the House of…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that point. It is really important to remember that this House can never be and should never be a mere rubber stamp, which is not our purpose;…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsThat will be a matter for the proposed Select Committee to look at. The purpose of the exemption is for serious wrong and, as my right hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire…03 Nov 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMay I begin by thanking my hon. Friend for the tremendous work she has done since her election in 2010 to support the family and all life from the point of conception through to…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Government are doing what we can to help refugees from Afghanistan. I recently visited the RAF base at Brize Norton, whose staff have worked incredibly hard around the clock…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am delighted to wish Wales luck against New Zealand. I am looking forward to an heroic victory of our fellow countrymen that will inspire many across the country. I also wish my…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThere was obviously a failure in a testing centre; that is a serious matter, and it is something that the Department of Health and Social Care acted on. Buying in services is a…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI was not at the Parliament in 1295, I am sorry to say. I clearly missed a treat. I congratulate my hon. Friend on the work that she is doing in Great Grimsby to highlight…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am very sympathetic to what the hon. Gentleman has said. I think that one of our main tasks here—indeed, our main main task—is the scrutiny of legislation. Unfortunately, the…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseFor once, I am going to have to disappoint my right hon. Friend. We could not possibly have a debate on that, because there is nothing to debate. This is clearly the party that…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that important issue and congratulate Rowena Academy on the work it is doing. His specific request is a matter for the House…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI say to the hon. Lady: don’t be such a killjoy. It is fun having bonfire night. We will be having fireworks in West Harptree; we will even have a Guy put on a bonfire and it will…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am more than willing to take up individual cases, as I have done, of people who do not seem to be getting the answers that they should get. That is one of the roles of this…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseOne does like to think sometimes of what dinner must be like in the household of the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart), because everything is “a disgrace”,…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThis is a very important point. The civil contingencies secretariat in the Cabinet Office makes preparations for the unexpected. The difficulty is that the unexpected we expect…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI will continue my disagreeable line, as I disagree with the hon. Lady, too. I sometimes find myself in a surprising degree of agreement with her on local matters but, no, this…28 Oct 2021