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HANSARD Future of HorseracingI welcome the hon. Lady to her post. I agree with the overwhelming majority of what she has said, and I commend her for it. I wonder what she thinks of the issue that a number of…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingBut that is not an affordability check.25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingI think I heard the hon. Gentleman repeat the figure of one person committing suicide every day as a result of gambling. He should know that that figure is not accurate but has…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingMy hon. Friend makes a fair point. How many people will go to the black market is a matter of dispute; it is impossible to know. However, people like a bet, and the chances are…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingGiven that he is particularly concerned about the damage that certain things do, and affordability checks are therefore important in that, does he believe that affordability…25 Oct 2023HANSARDBBC Licence Fee Non-Payment (Decriminalisation for Over-75s) BillThe Minister, as always, is making a very coherent argument. Would he agree with me that, not least for reasons of impartiality, it would be completely unacceptable for the BBC’s…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I agree wholeheartedly. That is why, as I say, for the life of me I cannot see why a Minister would not want to do that impact assessment.20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillMy right hon. Friend makes a fair point, but I am not entirely sure that that necessarily follows, and I will give another example as to why. I should say in passing that I cannot…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillI had better.20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillThe Government would do well to listen to the former Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh), who I think…20 Oct 2023HANSARDBBC Licence Fee Non-Payment (Decriminalisation for Over-75s) BillMy hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) asked about inflation and the income that the BBC needs, which is, of course, leading to the end of the benefit…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillI am grateful for what the Minister has said, but I think that the people who, as she acknowledges, have suffered harm and damage from the vaccine—they were coerced into taking it…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker. I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) for not only a tremendous speech setting…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillBack in the dim and dark past—when David Cameron was Prime Minister, I think—the Government introduced a “one in, one out” rule for regulations, and then increased that to a “one…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillThe Minister makes a fair point. Perhaps it is one of the reasons that I am perhaps not quite as persuaded as I would normally be by one of the Bills from my hon. Friend the…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillI felt that the Minister was coming to a close. Before she does, I want to raise the point I made in my speech about the clinical trial involving children and a Bradford patient…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillThe Minister says that the figure has been reviewed periodically and that we are now at £120,000. She just said that it was last reviewed in 2007, which was 16.5 years ago. Does…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillThis is not written into the Bill, but if the cost-benefit analysis in a Minister’s impact assessment shows that the cost outweighs the benefit, what does my hon. Friend feel…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillWas my hon. Friend disappointed with the Opposition response? They are usually all over real-terms cuts like a rash. Any time there is any hint of a real-terms cut, the Labour…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillQuite. My hon. Friend is right, and today gives the Minister the opportunity to make it unequivocally clear that the Government do accept that that has happened. That would be a…20 Oct 2023