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325 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDAmbulance PressuresMay I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his new role and say how important, given this particular crisis, his previous experience as Minister of State for Health is? He took…18 Jul 2022HANSARDAction on Climate Change and DecarbonisationI add my thanks to the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, the hon. Member for Gateshead (Ian Mearns)—it is good to see him in his place—and the members of his Committee…05 Jul 2022HANSARDAction on Climate Change and DecarbonisationThe hon. Lady makes a very important point, and she made a strong contribution to our Committee’s report on the inquiry into the energy efficiency of existing homes. I will…05 Jul 2022HANSARDAction on Climate Change and DecarbonisationThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; I certainly shall wind up briefly. I will not take time congratulating hon. Members on their contributions to the debate, all of which exhibited…05 Jul 2022HANSARDAction on Climate Change and DecarbonisationThe Government have been focusing on social housing, which is typically owned in relatively large unit blocks together in a street or an estate. In many cases, such schemes are…05 Jul 2022HANSARDDevelopment: Water Treatment InfrastructureI am grateful to the Minister for that reply. Does he agree that it would be appropriate for water companies to become statutory consultees for local authorities and that their…27 Jun 2022HANSARDDevelopment: Water Treatment Infrastructure15. What steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the development of homes and commercial buildings does not overload existing water treatment infrastructure.27 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend has just told the House that at the G20 meeting of environment and climate change Ministers, the agreement was reached to phase out global coal. Did he…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsQ13. My right hon. Friend may be aware that the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has recently submitted a revised outline business case in support of its £312 million…15 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesVery brief, Madam Deputy Speaker. Thank you for calling me and for chairing our debate. In essence, every contribution from across the House has been in agreement: we have broad…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesAgain, my hon. Friend has made a point that I was intending to make in my speech. In fact, it is my final point. I have something specifically to address that in a request to the…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesI do apologise, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will address you, as I should do. I was just saying how heartened I have been to be involved in a campaign over the past two years with so…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesI am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for introducing the next comment in my speech, which was to highlight precisely the volume of spillages that these monitors have…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesMy right hon. Friend tempts me to rewrite my speech from scratch. First, I thank him for his comments about our report, which was a significant body of work and the first such…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesIndeed. The Consumer Council for Water is a statutory consultee with Ofwat, so it will be able to make that case as part of the determination process once Ofwat is following its…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for taking such an early intervention, but as she has mentioned the Committee’s popularity, it would be remiss of me not to point out to the House…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesI bow to the hon. Lady’s knowledge of her constituency and the area around it. I am informed that the tideway tunnel will take 37 million tonnes of the 39 million tonnes of sewage…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesMr Deputy Speaker, I am rather concerned that my speech has been leaked to other Members of the House, because the Father of the House has just pre-empted my next sentence. He is…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesMy right hon. Friend is right to refer to other polluters. If we take a look across the country as a whole, we will see that it is roughly evenly balanced between pollution from…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesI beg to move, That this House has considered the Government’s strategic priorities for Ofwat. I wish to begin my remarks by placing on the record my thanks to the Backbench…09 Jun 2022