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HANSARD Sir David Amess Adjournment DebateI hope Hansard got that! I want to raise three specific topics. The first is animal welfare; the second is local NHS services, perhaps in a non-partisan way; and the third and…12 Sept 2024HANSARD Sir David Amess Adjournment DebateI am honoured to open this debate in the memory of our great friend—my great friend—Sir David Amess, a fallen comrade whose plaque I am looking at right now. It is on the other…12 Sept 2024HANSARD NHS: Independent InvestigationMay I make the Secretary of State a little more nervous? The Darzi report makes seven high-level recommendations, the fourth of which is to drive productivity in hospitals. From…12 Sept 2024HANSARD Sir David Amess Adjournment DebateI generally agree with my right hon. Friend, particularly about defence matters, and he has summed my great friend up very well. At the end of my speech, however, I will make a…12 Sept 2024HANSARD Sir David Amess Adjournment DebateNo, I can reassure the hon. Gentleman and the House that I only intend to raise three topics.12 Sept 2024HANSARD Sir David Amess Adjournment DebateYes, of course—even on the Adjournment.12 Sept 2024HANSARD Sir David Amess Adjournment DebateI think my right hon. Friend is being too modest about his own achievements.12 Sept 2024HANSARD Social SecurityAs I served with the hon. Lady on the PAC, I warmly congratulate her on her election as Chair of the Treasury Committee. The House has made a very good choice. Members of the…10 Sept 2024HANSARDUkraineWe have had a quote from Suvorov, and Napoleon famously said that “the moral is to the physical as three is to one.” After two and a half years of a barbaric Russian invasion, we…10 Sept 2024HANSARDUkraineMay I follow the excellent point made by the Father of the House, my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh), on Storm Shadow? There is no third country…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Building HomesThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and good luck in your new role. It is possible to have successful development, but from experience it has to be something done with people and not…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Budget Responsibility BillAs the hon. Lady knows, the new Government have intimated that they may decide to mirror much new EU legislation, which could well have budgetary consequences. She and I have not…30 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI welcome the affirmation of the funding for Ukraine, which I presume was already fully allocated from the Treasury reserve, in the usual way. On the mainstream defence budget,…29 Jul 2024HANSARD International Immunities and PrivilegesMadam Deputy Speaker, may I begin by congratulating you on your election and welcoming you to the Chair? I am sure that you will chair our proceedings excellently. We wish you all…24 Jul 2024HANSARD International Immunities and PrivilegesAnd the Navy, in which my father served, for completeness. The Royal Air Force needs this aircraft. We need it. The Japanese, the Italians and the west need it. By all means, let…24 Jul 2024HANSARD International Immunities and PrivilegesWill the Minister give way?24 Jul 2024HANSARD International Immunities and PrivilegesI thank the Minister for giving way. She is a Foreign Office Minister heading this up, I believe, not a Defence Minister, which is interesting, but it is an international…24 Jul 2024HANSARD International Immunities and PrivilegesBefore my hon. Friend does so, would he give way very briefly?24 Jul 2024HANSARD International Immunities and PrivilegesThe hon. Gentleman is quite right to highlight what happened to TSR-2, which was a generation ahead of its time and a world beater. It was scrapped because the Treasury wanted to…24 Jul 2024HANSARD International Immunities and PrivilegesI am not a Minister, but I was for three years. Will the Minister give way?24 Jul 2024