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HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyThe hon. Lady seems very keen on the PPA. Can she tell the House why?06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyIt is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Liz Saville Roberts), who made her point very clearly to the Leader of the House. When I came into…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyWell, it is outrageous that the SNP supports the European Union. That is the first time I have ever heard that. [ Interruption. ] Does the hon. Gentleman want to intervene? He…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyThe Leader of the House is being charming, in his normal way, but the hon. Members for Belfast South (Claire Hanna) and for Strangford (Jim Shannon) have a fair point, and the…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyAnd hear, hear, too!06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyI am sorry to spring out of my seat once more, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I thought that this assembly was a parliamentary delegation, not one whose membership the Government Whips…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyGoodness me! There was no bad faith: I was just trying to support the SNP in its campaign to support the European Union and get back into it. That is why I say there would be a…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyMy right hon. Friend makes a vital point, but I would take things down a slightly different path. I would re-establish the Committee on the Future Relationship with the European…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyThat would be a most helpful mitigation but, of course, if we do not have the assembly in the first place, we do not have to worry about that sort of thing. Let me move away…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyOf course.06 Dec 2021HANSARD Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. That was one of the things that concerned me. I picked up from the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for Scarborough and…06 Dec 2021HANSARDCode of Conduct: ConsultationI have to say that I disagree with the last remark of the Chair of the Committee, because it is clearly a House matter, so it would be better coming from the Backbench Business…02 Dec 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseIt has occurred to me that I have failed miserably to get the Leader of the House to grant debates in Government time, so I have thought of a wheeze. Will the Leader of the House…02 Dec 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI must get him there, Madam Deputy Speaker. We can go up through Wellingborough; go up where the new Isham bypass will be built; see where the new Boris hospital is to be built;…02 Dec 2021HANSARDTokyo Nutrition for Growth SummitI remind Members that the House authorities request people to wear face coverings, except when they are speaking in the debate. I am also asked to remind Members to have a covid…02 Dec 2021HANSARDRegisters of Births and Deaths BillMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Will he tell me what happened during covid? Unfortunately, I was involved in registering a death during the covid period and it seemed…26 Nov 2021HANSARDRegisters of Births and Deaths BillMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech, and she is persuading me even more to vote against the Bill. She rightly says there is a problem with paper records, because they can…26 Nov 2021HANSARDRegisters of Births and Deaths BillI have been thinking long and hard as the debate goes on. Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill does appear to be a Government Bill but not in Government time, so it does not…26 Nov 2021HANSARDRegisters of Births and Deaths BillThe crux of the matter, it seems to me, is that there must be some great injustice in the current system if it needs to be changed. If the only reason for changing it is…26 Nov 2021HANSARDRegisters of Births and Deaths BillI was not going to speak and am sort of in favour of possibly supporting this Bill, but my hon. Friend’s speech is making me doubt it. Surely having a paper record is a safeguard…26 Nov 2021