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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am happy to meet the hon. Gentleman. I am very interested and cannot wait.24 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sure that my hon. Friend has heard what the Prime Minister has had to say on this matter. He will also know that Transport for the North is looking at options including…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHS2I understand the intense interest that there will be across the House in this issue. The Oakervee review is ongoing and will consider all three phases of the project. I met…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHS2As I say, we have not put any time limit on Mr Oakervee’s findings, and he will report when he is ready to do so. As my hon. Friend will know, the current plans for phase 1 would…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHS2I have no doubt that Mr Oakervee is watching proceedings here carefully this morning to hear what colleagues have to say. That will be one of the issues that comes within his…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHS2Mr Oakervee is trying to ensure that he works consensually with the panel to ensure that they reach a single report. The management of the panel and the individuals on it, who…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHS2The hon. Gentleman is perhaps tempting me to go a little too far in presuming that everything is going ahead. I do not want to pre-empt Mr Oakervee’s report, but he will be aware…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHS2I am disappointed to hear what my right hon. Friend has to say and I am more than happy to meet him to obtain further details. It is very important that HS2 Ltd continues to work…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHS2I will take no lectures from the hon. Lady on how to support the north economically, or indeed, in transport terms. I am delighted that she lives in a world of alternate…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHeathrow Airport: Third RunwayMy Department and the Civil Aviation Authority have conducted assurance work on the financing and affordability of expansion proposals. This has concluded that, so far as can be…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHeathrow Airport: Third RunwayThe airports national policy includes a requirement that any developers should demonstrate that their scheme is cost-efficient and sustainable, and that it seeks to minimise costs…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHeathrow Airport: Third RunwayThe prudent thing for the relevant Minister to do is stick within the airports national policy, which was endorsed by this House with a large majority, and the decision by the…24 Oct 2019HANSARDHeathrow Airport: Third RunwayIn an attempt to seek some degree of agreement with the right hon. Lady, since I came into this role I have made a point of meeting community groups across the south-east, as well…24 Oct 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [ Lords ]I am always nervous when telling the hon. Gentleman, who is an experienced lawyer, how the courts work. He has spent far more time in courts than I have in my life. If I may…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [ Lords ]It is a pleasure to go first for a change. On Third Reading, the other place voted to amend clauses 9 and 10 so that the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Business,…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [ Lords ]I beg to move amendment 9, in clause 9, page 8, line 32, leave out subsection (4) Subsection (4) requires the appropriate Minister to obtain the concurrence of the Lord Chief…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [ Lords ]It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Gary. It is important to recognise, as we all do, that the eyes of the world and the nation are upon us in this room, as we…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [ Lords ]I thank the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown for his observation about the new Government. I hope the Bill is not the first to fall victim to a catastrophic U-turn, because that…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [ Lords ]Amendment 6 seeks to change the negative procedure to the affirmative procedure whenever the Lord Chancellor wants to make a change to the committee’s membership. As I have…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [ Lords ]I am rather disappointed that the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown regards Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Johann Sebastian Bach as “crummy”; far from it. The hon. Gentleman is…23 Jul 2019