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HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillPerhaps the Minister will forgive me for juxtaposing his reluctance to make things clear in primary legislation when discussing this clause and what the Government seek to do in…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThe point about proportionality extends into clause 29, where the Government have now removed the indispensability test, leaving bare proportionality. My amendment asks for a…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillWhat my hon. Friend outlines is precisely what we are seeking. In making these arguments, we are not in some way the friends of big tech; we are not here to represent a particular…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI warmly welcome my hon. Friend to his place, as this is my first chance to do so. Are we now to understand that, with regard to the judicial review standard, proportionality…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThe hon. Gentleman is right to make that point. That is why in other jurisdictions we have seen agreement reached between big tech and newspaper titles to ensure that there is…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillIn rising to address the House, I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I am an independent adviser in a collective action being…20 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI hope to speak briefly, as the hors d’oeuvres for the pièce de résistance, which will be the speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Sir Jacob…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDebate on the AddressI am extremely grateful to my right honourable Friend for making that powerful point about a mental health Act. Does she agree that ending the archaic elision of conditions such…07 Nov 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI think my right hon. Friend may suffer from the same affliction, dare I say; but I will draw a veil of charity over that. My hon. Friend—and my friend—the Minister has campaigned…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI will certainly remember your exhortation to brevity, Madam Deputy Speaker. As you know, that is something of a challenge for me at the best of times.25 Oct 2023HANSARDStorm Babet: FloodingI thank my hon. Friend for her statement. The wider consequences of sudden torrential rainfall, which is happening much more frequently, are being clearly seen in constituencies…23 Oct 2023HANSARD Prison CapacityI commend my right hon. and learned Friend for his statement. In so many ways, it echoes and builds on the work we did together in the Department. I emphasise the importance of…16 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael and GazaI thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and for his unequivocal condemnation of calculated acts of murder and hostage taking, which are deliberately designed to provoke a…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillWhere do those figures come from?13 Sept 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. May I seek your guidance about how I properly place on the record a reference to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests…13 Sept 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI will take that qualification. I was seeking a short cut because time is brief. My hon. Friend is right to mention the agency point, but it is still a much narrower ambit of the…13 Sept 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI shall be brief. The hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) repeated her phrase of last week—and, indeed, we have passed this way again. I will resist the temptation…13 Sept 2023HANSARDG20 SummitI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, particularly the inclusion in the communiqué of the G20 AI principles. I would like to press him on what further work he and the United…11 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillExactly, and that is the point. What the Government have done is set up a legislative Aunt Sally. I welcome their putting in place mitigating measures to deal with parent…04 Sept 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) BillThank you Dame Rosie. I will trespass upon your good will by focusing on clause 1 and the necessity of what we have to pass today. I will not repeat the comments of my hon. Friend…04 Sept 2023