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HANSARDDefence: 2.5% GDP Spending CommitmentMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right not to give a scintilla of credibility to the idea that the Conservative party, having spent 14 years never reaching 2.5%, would do that…11 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I would like to start by saying how happy I am, after 14 years in this place, to finally be responding to a Budget from a Labour Chancellor. That that Labour Chancellor is also…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his success in getting this extra money for our national health service, which is incredibly needed. He spoke about the extra GPs that he is…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and congratulate him on his new appointment. He is obviously very critical of the Government’s attempt to alleviate the…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)My right hon. Friend is repeating a statistic that we will all be familiar with—that of the £22 billion black hole—but it is important to make the point that that £22 billion is…05 Nov 2024HANSARD COP29 and International Climate FinanceI am grateful to the Minister for giving way a second time. I have just returned from Colombia with a delegation from the United Kingdom at the biodiversity COP. I can report to…30 Oct 2024HANSARD COP29 and International Climate FinanceI congratulate the hon. Member for North Herefordshire (Ellie Chowns) on securing this important debate. We have already heard that the UN has identified a need for £600 billion…30 Oct 2024HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Some of us were hoping to get an opportunity to ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology about the steps his Department…16 Oct 2024HANSARD Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGBLet me begin by drawing the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I am sure that Members on both sides of the House will want to join me…10 Oct 2024HANSARD Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGBThe hon. Member is talking about the post-London Olympics legacy. One legacy is that the amount of physical education taught in in schools went down by 45,000 hours under his…10 Oct 2024HANSARD Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGBI absolutely support the work that this Government and previous Governments have done to support elite athletes in the Olympics and in other ways; it is incredibly important. Does…10 Oct 2024HANSARD Farming and Food SecurityWe know that the previous Government made a whole raft of commitments that there was no way of paying for, so there is no credibility to the suggestion that the right hon.…08 Oct 2024HANSARD Farming and Food SecurityWe all understand that my right hon. Friend has inherited in his Department a panoply of different crises, from the crisis facing our farmers to flooding. He is absolutely right…08 Oct 2024HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management SchemesIt is a great pleasure to see my hon. and right hon. Friends in their places on the Front Bench. The environmental land management scheme approach was a really innovative idea…12 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI am very grateful to my right hon. Friend. We heard the right hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart) suggest a few moments ago that things were going wonderfully…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillIt is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (Mr MacDonald). I congratulate him on that excellent speech. In particular, when he speaks…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillOn that point, will the shadow Minister give way?05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillWill the right hon. Member give way?05 Sept 2024