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HANSARDPreventable Baby LossIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I thank the hon. Member for Ashfield (Lee Anderson) for securing this important debate and for his moving opening…04 Sept 2024HANSARDPreventable Baby LossI absolutely agree. The hon. Member makes a very valuable point: resources matter, but it is also about how they are implemented. Human interaction and professional training is so…04 Sept 2024HANSARD Israel and GazaI welcome my right hon. Friend to his position. What discussions has he had on a deal to secure the release of the hostages? Can he inform the House of the welfare of the…19 Jul 2024HANSARDPlanning, the Green Belt and Rural AffairsIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gordon and Buchan (Harriet Cross), who made an excellent maiden speech, which I enjoyed. I also have to mention the excellent maiden…19 Jul 2024HANSARD Healthy StartI apologise for missing the first couple of minutes of my hon. Friend’s speech. She is making an excellent speech outlining why the scheme is so needed. She mentions that take-up…22 May 2024HANSARD Healthy StartI can see that my hon. Friend is going to make an excellent speech; he has made some important points already. Hon. Members may be aware that an event was held yesterday by…22 May 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillSadly, if amendment 104B is not accepted today, that might be the case. I welcome the opportunity to speak in today’s debate, as short as it might be. I am sure that the Minister…21 May 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThat is a very good point. As much as none of us wants to see any unhappy, devastated fans at any of these venues, we will probably have to face those images, in the emails from…21 May 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI am thrilled to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley), who has done so much work on this matter in the past few years, especially since…21 May 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThe hon. Gentleman makes exactly the correct point. Lord Moynihan was a highly respected Minister, and he is hardly a lefty—or whatever it is that people call people like me.21 May 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillBecause of the scale!21 May 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI just want to help the Minister correct the record. Through the Olympics legislation, we as a Parliament did not ban resale; we said that resale had to be authorised. I did not…21 May 2024HANSARD Prevention of Sexual Violence in ConflictI thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, and I agree with what she said. The UK needs to play a leading role in that regard. The international community should work to create…14 May 2024HANSARD Prevention of Sexual Violence in ConflictI thank all speakers and echo what has been said about this consensual and important debate. I thank the Minister for his contribution, and I join him in thanking Baroness Helic…14 May 2024HANSARD Prevention of Sexual Violence in ConflictSurvivors.14 May 2024HANSARD Prevention of Sexual Violence in ConflictI beg to move, That this House has considered the prevention of sexual violence in conflict. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. I thank Labour Friends…14 May 2024HANSARD Prevention of Sexual Violence in ConflictThat is a very important point, and I did not include it in my opening remarks, so I thank the hon. Gentleman for that. What happened on 7 October was a well-documented case of…14 May 2024HANSARD Prevention of Sexual Violence in ConflictI agree with my right hon. Friend on that point, and I heard that testimony too. On that very day, I had bright red nails, unlike the paler-coloured nails that I have today, and…14 May 2024HANSARDRoyal Albert Hall: Governance4. If she will refer the governance of the Royal Albert Hall to the first-tier tribunal (charity).09 May 2024HANSARDRoyal Albert Hall: GovernanceThe Attorney General, in her—I must say excellent—recent letter on the matter, expressed her “disappointment” that the Royal Albert Hall Bill “is not more ambitious” and “that the…09 May 2024