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HANSARDBBC Licence Fee Non-Payment (Decriminalisation for Over-75s) BillDid my hon. Friend note that the Minister said that he did not agree with decriminalising it for a particular age group, and that the policy should be the same for all age groups?…20 Oct 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillI am sure that my hon. Friend will come on to this point, and I do not want to steal his thunder. However, the authorities are now accepting that people have been damaged. They…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 2023HANSARDBBC Licence Fee Non-Payment (Decriminalisation for Over-75s) BillIf the BBC is as wonderful and magnificent as my right hon. Friend is telling us, and it provides such wonderful value for money, as the BBC keeps telling us, why does it need the…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillMy hon. Friend is highlighting how shrewd a politician he is and what shrewd decision-making skills he has. Ultimately, he was successful in getting the project stopped, but I…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 2023HANSARDGreen Belt (Protection) BillI spend much of my time trying to stop Bradford Council concreting over the green belt in my constituency. It seems to want to build more and more unaffordable houses on the green…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 2023HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments BillMy hon. Friend, as ever, is making a powerful case. Has he had any indication of whether in the covid inquiry—or even his Bill; it was not entirely clear from my reading of it,…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillNo, I am not. I know the Minister well—he is a very good man—and I know he would not be swayed by what the blob was trying to tell him to do or not do. He is a man of his own mind…20 Oct 2023HANSARDRegulatory Impact Assessments BillI had better.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 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 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 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 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 2023HANSARD Plastic Packaging Tax on Imports: HMRC EnforcementThe sitting is resumed! The debate may continue for another 52 minutes, which will take us to 9.10 pm.17 Oct 2023HANSARDRailway Ticket OfficesI thank colleagues for their co-operation while we got through so many speeches.13 Sept 2023HANSARDRailway Ticket OfficesBefore I call Chris Loder to move the motion, I want to give Members as much advance notice as possible that the time limit will be a maximum of two minutes. I will try to get…13 Sept 2023