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HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023On a point of order, Mr Pritchard. So many of our arrangements are exercised by virtue of conventions. The question of what the precision of a particular rule is has to be weighed…17 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023Further to that point of order, Mr Pritchard, I thoroughly endorse what my hon. Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend East and my right hon. Friend the Member for Rayleigh…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI thoroughly endorse what my right hon. Friend says. This is a matter of extreme national interest, as is reflected in the votes of constituents throughout the country. They feel…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillWhile we are on the question of dates, does the Minister have any idea when the Supreme Court may consider and conclude its judgment? That is relevant not only to the question of…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Migration and Economic Development PartnershipOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I strongly support what the Home Secretary has been saying, but I am concerned with ensuring that, in the ping-pong that will ensue when…29 Jun 2023HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it possible, as I believe it is, for a Bill of the importance of the Relationships and Sex Education (Transparency) Bill to be…26 Jun 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI made a very careful distinction. I appreciate the point that my right hon. and learned Friend is trying to make, and accept, of course, that Lord Hope of Craighead is a very…21 Jun 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI have read with great interest the record of the proceedings yesterday in the House of Lords, noting some extremely wise and democratically well judged comments by those such as…21 Jun 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy hon. and learned Friend is making some excellent points. He has just referred to Parliament as a whole but, in this particular context, a difficulty arises in subsections (6)…21 Jun 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy right hon. and learned Friend may be just ducking an issue, which is that, actually, it is not about the “B” word or Brexit as such; it is about parliamentary democracy and…21 Jun 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillWill the hon. Lady give way?21 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnsonrose —19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonI am most grateful to the Chairman of the Standards Committee. He and I took part in the debate, as he will well remember perhaps, on 21 April 2022. I raised the question of…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnsonrose —19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonThe original motion, which was discussed on the Floor of the House on 21 April 2022, in which debate both I and the hon. Member for Rhondda (Sir Chris Bryant) happened to speak,…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonMy right hon. Friend is a very good friend of mine—he really is—as indeed of some Members on the other side of the House. I would simply like to say this. I am not in control of…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonDoes my right hon. Friend agree that the very word “disingenuous,” which is used in the context of this report, is in the same category as the things he has just mentioned?19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonI will leave that for a moment. I have more to say on that very question. Only by cross-examination of witnesses can truth be properly established. The 1997 resolution went…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonThe right hon. and learned Lady has referred to the wording “misleads”, which was in the original motion on 21 April 2022. That is not the wording of the resolution of 1997, which…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonOn the point the hon. Gentleman was just making—19 Jun 2023