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HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special ReportNo, not yet; I may come back to my hon. Friend. As a regular MP, for me, and I think for many, the habit or custom is that we accept standards or privileges reports in this House…10 Jul 2023HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special ReportIt is a great privilege to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Laura Farris). Not for the first time, she has spoken with great integrity on an issue and opened my eyes…10 Jul 2023HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special ReportThe hon. Lady makes a fair point, although I have two contentions with it. First, on the specifics, the point I was making is that the determination of whether that constitutes…10 Jul 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseThe recent transfer of the administration of Help to Buy equity loans from Target to Lenvi has been handled extremely poorly. Market participants and holders of loans were not…06 Jul 2023HANSARDAnimal WelfareThe Secretary of State is right that progress on animal welfare can be made by specific and targeted measures. I would add to the ones she mentioned the adoption by the Government…06 Jul 2023HANSARD NHS Long-term Workforce PlanThe NHS today, at 1.4 million employees, is the fifth-largest employer in the world, and if the ambitions in this welcome plan are met, it will be the largest employer in the…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI thank the CMA for its report and the Government for accepting the recommendations, although I think we are putting too much faith in price transparency to solve the market…03 Jul 2023HANSARDAsylum Accommodation: HotelsI do not know how to follow that, Mr Speaker. All Members would like to see a reduction in the number of hotels used for asylum accommodation—I am sure that is true—but will the…03 Jul 2023HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceAbout a quarter of the country’s economic output is in sectors under regulators, including the water industry. With Ofwat and in other sectors with Ofgem and the Financial Conduct…28 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage and Rental CostsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. What is the Labour party’s view on forecasting and the Bank of England? It would be interesting to hear that, because it…27 Jun 2023HANSARDGrowth Plan of 23 September 2022 and Cost of MortgagesIn his earlier reply the Minister talked about mortgages in the United States. He will know that in the United States it is common to fix a mortgage for 15 or 30 years, which…20 Jun 2023HANSARD East West Rail: Bedford to CambridgeI beg to move, That this House has considered the Bedford to Cambridge section of East West Rail. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark, and to discuss the…13 Jun 2023HANSARD East West Rail: Bedford to CambridgeThe hon. Lady is absolutely right, and that is why I circulated a letter, which all parties have signed, calling for exactly that: a greener alternative that focuses on…13 Jun 2023HANSARD East West Rail: Bedford to CambridgeI do, but I would not do what I understand the Liberal Democrats are doing in Mid Bedfordshire, which is to ask people which housing estate they do not like so that they can…13 Jun 2023HANSARD East West Rail: Bedford to CambridgeI will try not to detain you for 10 minutes, Sir Mark, but we will see. I thank the Minister, the shadow Minister—the hon. Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi) —and all hon. Members who…13 Jun 2023HANSARDYarl’s Wood: SercoWill my right hon. Friend join me in thanking the chief constable of Bedfordshire, Trevor Rodenhurst, for working with other police forces across the country? I understand that…22 May 2023HANSARDYarl’s Wood: Serco7. What discussions she has had with representatives of Serco on improvements to security at the Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre.22 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Chief Secretary to the Treasury knows that the long hidden business case for East West Rail represents a bad deal for taxpayers, and that MPs from across Parliament have…09 May 2023HANSARD Draft Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Extraction of Information from Electronic Devices) (Amendment of Schedule 3) Regulations 2023If I can drag the hon. Lady back to the regulations we are discussing today, they are about expanding the number of people who can extract information from devices. She has listed…09 May 2023HANSARD Draft Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Extraction of Information from Electronic Devices) (Amendment of Schedule 3) Regulations 2023The Minister has given a very clear exposition, but it does prompt a question as to why those police forces were not given the powers in the original legislation passed in 2022…09 May 2023