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HANSARDCovid-19 Testing: Care SectorIf he will publish a comparative assessment of the availability of covid-19 testing for (a) care home residents, (b) home care recipients and (c) care home staff in Scotland and…01 Jul 2020HANSARDWestferry Printworks DevelopmentI understand that the Secretary of State has acknowledged the appearance of bias. My hon. Friend is making a compelling case. If, in fact, the Secretary of State is entirely…24 Jun 2020HANSARDWestferry Printworks DevelopmentThe Secretary of State says that he is pleased to have this debate and started his speech by saying that he was going to release all of these documents. Why is he doing that…24 Jun 2020HANSARDWindrush Compensation SchemeFirst, the Home Secretary, in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi), conflated something that the previous Labour Government had apparently said about people…23 Jun 2020HANSARDBBC Regional Politics CoverageI pay tribute to the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) for securing this debate. The level of interest that there has been shows the desire across the country to…22 Jun 2020HANSARDBBC Regional Politics CoverageGiven the statistics that the right hon. Gentleman has outlined about the success of this output, what does it say about the BBC’s priorities that it would even consider getting…22 Jun 2020HANSARDBBC Regional Politics CoverageThe right hon. Gentleman is right that the local context has been different. What is also different is local accountability, because councils have decisions to make about the…22 Jun 2020HANSARDBBC Regional Politics CoverageIt absolutely is. I am conscious that local media—particularly radio—are very much under threat. I have previously mentioned Peak FM, which has been a great, small local radio…22 Jun 2020HANSARDBBC Regional Politics CoverageOnce again, I absolutely agree. I think it was Tip O’Neill who was credited with the phrase, “all politics is local”, and in the last general election we saw that more strongly…22 Jun 2020HANSARDBBC Regional Politics CoverageI could not agree more. Coronavirus has brought into sharp focus the need for a local response, given the extent to which local areas are experiencing a global pandemic in…22 Jun 2020HANSARDBBC Regional Politics CoverageI thank the hon. Gentleman for securing this debate, which is incredibly important. I am a great defender of the BBC and will happily defend the licence fee. I feel strongly that…22 Jun 2020HANSARD Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [Lords]I am grateful to the Solicitor General for giving way. I am also grateful to him for recognising the position of my colleagues on the Labour Front Bench. He is absolutely right to…22 Jun 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsI do not know why that answer could not have been given to my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting), who asked a very similar question but got no sort of answer.…22 Jun 2020HANSARD Economic Outlook and Furlough Scheme ChangesI associate myself with the remarks that others have made about our colleague Jo Cox. The Chairman of the Treasury Committee, the right hon. Member for Central Devon (Mel Stride),…16 Jun 2020HANSARDDivorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill [Lords]The Secretary of State is right about the conflict caused by the current system. Does he agree that the old adage is true, that it is a good man who can keep a wife happy, but it…08 Jun 2020HANSARDHouse Business during the PandemicLike Conservative Members, I do not think that Parliament is at its greatest when we spend our time debating our own affairs, but if they feel so strongly that a debate about what…08 Jun 2020HANSARDHouse Business during the PandemicThe right hon. Gentleman’s concern was that virtual debates were preventing the Government from getting on with their business, but the way in which debates took place was just…08 Jun 2020HANSARDHouse Business during the PandemicIn response to the point that was just made by the hon. Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) about the vote that we had a week ago, does the right hon. Gentleman agree that all…08 Jun 2020HANSARDHouse Business during the PandemicI have some sympathy with the comments of a couple of Conservative Members about the fact that at a moment of such importance in the nation, we are once again here discussing our…08 Jun 2020HANSARDDivorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill [Lords]I very much enjoyed the speech by the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous), who gave us all food for thought, and I welcome entirely the spirit in which this…08 Jun 2020