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HANSARD Pie and Mash: Traditional Speciality Guaranteed StatusThat is exactly what I am attempting to do and I commend the hon. Gentleman for his work in this space. Actually, there are not enough British products that we have talked up for…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Pie and Mash: Traditional Speciality Guaranteed StatusI beg to move, That this House has considered the potential merits of providing traditional speciality guaranteed status to pie and mash. It is a pleasure to serve under your…22 Oct 2024HANSARDPub and Hospitality SectorMy hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech, covering all aspects of the hospitality sector. An extra benefit of draught beer relief is that 97% of the input into draught beer is…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Pie and Mash: Traditional Speciality Guaranteed StatusI thank my right hon. Friend and neighbour for raising that. I cannot wait to come down to Rayleigh and Wickford. Maybe we could do an Essex pie and mash championship and get an…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Pie and Mash: Traditional Speciality Guaranteed StatusI cannot possibly agree with the hon. Member any more. Many of his constituents wander across the road to get to the pie and mash shops in my constituency, and I encourage them to…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Pie and Mash: Traditional Speciality Guaranteed StatusI could not agree with my right hon. Friend more. We should be doing everything we can to talk up regional cuisine from all parts of our country. I cannot think of anything better…22 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. The Home Secretary is benefiting from some of the measures on legal routes for migration brought in by my right hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr Cleverly) when he was…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPolicing of ProtestsRecent footage of Metropolitan police officers saying that the description of Hezbollah as a terror group was a matter of “opinion” is alarming. The officers in question were…21 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWomen are those most often criminalised for non-payment of the licence fee. The BBC charter review offers an opportunity for the Government to look at this issue again. Will the…17 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillWhat we are discussing today is a policy of the Government. My party is in opposition, because its manifesto was rejected by the public at the last general election. We are…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe Minister talks about piecemeal reform and says the argument is stale, but surely the really stale argument is Labour’s. The Labour party came into government with an enormous…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI totally agree with the hon. Member. It is interesting that the Bill has not been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny that would normally come forward, because of the broader…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe hon. Lady has made the point at the Dispatch Box that conventions from 25 years ago should not stand today. Does she agree that that should also apply to other conventions…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI think that the hon. Member is missing my point. We have to see this as part of a package. Lord Irvine spoke about it in 1999. The hereditary peers were being kept there as the…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe hon. Member makes an interesting point. I know there have been fractures in Downing Street recently, but I do not think that anybody would suggest that the Labour party, with…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillNot again. Currently, Members of the House of Lords are there by birthright or appointed by God, as it were, or the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is going to pull out the…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI thank the hon. Member for his question. I do support their removal, but as part of a broader package of measures. I think that is the issue at stake today which Members on the…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe hon. Gentleman has had a nice laugh at my expense, but he knows what it is like to lose an election and to move seats. He made a good point about the Labour manifesto…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI will give way again.15 Oct 2024