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HANSARD Valedictory DebateThank you, Mr Speaker, and thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, as you slide gracefully into the Chair. I am pleased to see you there too. Before you disappear, Mr Speaker, I thank…24 May 2024HANSARDHeritage BuildingsIt is a local newspaper.23 May 2024HANSARDHeritage BuildingsOn the subject of heritage buildings, may I add my own thanks to yours, Mr Speaker, to the Clerk of Legislation, Liam Laurence Smyth, who really is an institution in this place?…23 May 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: GovernmentThe National Audit Office does have adequate resources to scrutinise the cost of artificial intelligence and, indeed, produced a report in March that found that AI presents…23 May 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: GovernmentMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right that it is an important subject, and the Public Accounts Committee was due to take oral evidence on it on 17 June. I will certainly draw…23 May 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: GovernmentI think the short answer is that there is inadequate awareness inside Government—although there is some awareness—that there are potentially very large negatives with artificial…23 May 2024HANSARDNHS ProcurementIn its January report, the National Audit Office established that the NHS supply chain has great potential to secure further savings by aggregating the NHS’s spending power, but…23 May 2024HANSARDNHS ProcurementI am sure the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff at the National Audit Office will want to listen very carefully to what my hon. Friend has said, although I must tell…23 May 2024HANSARDNHS ProcurementHaving spent 16 years on the Public Accounts Committee, I completely agree with what the hon. Gentleman says. It is, in my view, one of the best places to spend one’s time as a…23 May 2024HANSARD Holocaust Memorial BillHas my hon. Friend had the opportunity to be in Victoria Tower Gardens on a Saturday or Sunday morning and seen at the south end, where there is a developed play space, large…22 May 2024HANSARD Holocaust Memorial BillHa!22 May 2024HANSARDNational Grid: PylonsI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate, the subject of which is of huge concern to many constituents across the whole of eastern England, including East Anglia.…02 May 2024HANSARDDraft Combined Authorities (Finance) (Amendment) Regulations 2024I would just like to pursue the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Sir Liam Fox). The issue is not what a particularly good Mayor from a good…29 Apr 2024HANSARDDraft Combined Authorities (Finance) (Amendment) Regulations 2024The hon. Gentleman looks at me in a slightly accusatory way, as if I might disagree with anything he is saying. I do not think you get a free Mayor either. I believe that it is…29 Apr 2024HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandI beg to move, That this House has considered dental services in the East of England. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. I am particularly pleased to…16 May 2023HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandI enjoyed listening to the remarks of every contributor, including my parliamentary neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous). I was going to say “the Member…16 May 2023HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandMy hon. Friend makes several good points. We did payment by activity for acute hospitals, and we got a huge amount of activity in acute hospitals. Mental health was then the…16 May 2023HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandIt might make it more of a pentagram, but I did mean to mention Cranfield, of course. My hon. Friend knows that in South Norfolk we speak of little else. I do not want to take up…16 May 2023HANSARD Dental Services: East of EnglandAs the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish said, dentistry definitely needs to be improved. He has confirmed my worst fear, which is that if the Minister does not focus on this…16 May 2023HANSARD Small and Medium-sized House BuildersI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising the subject of nutrient neutrality. I have a constituent who is a small house builder, as were his father and grandfather. He runs a…10 May 2023