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HANSARDSupport for Self-employed and Freelance WorkersWhat a powerful start to this debate we have just heard from the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), laying out with passion the case that has, to some extent,…17 Sept 2020HANSARDSupport for Self-employed and Freelance WorkersMy hon. Friend is precisely right. That is one of the three issues the Government really need to focus on as they consider their response to this debate. If we take wedding…17 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI am keen, as I mentioned yesterday, to learn more about some of the points of view that the hon. Gentleman is expressing. In the absence of a common frameworks agreement, if it…15 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI am very grateful for that clarification. The hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey also said that the Office for the Internal Market was overlaying that…15 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThank you very much, Dame Rosie—that was unexpected. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, and to have the opportunity to raise some general points and specific…15 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillIf I may, I will pick up on something that the hon. Gentleman has said. Many speakers on the Opposition Benches have also said this. They talk about the race to the bottom with…15 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market Billrose—15 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI think I have the answer—it might not be the one he thinks he is conveying—which is, there is none. There is no answer to how disputes will be resolved because it does not appear…15 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. “So get on with it”, would be my suggestion to him and his colleagues. I have heard several points of strong opposition to the Bill rather…15 Sept 2020HANSARD Trade BillIn that context, I understand why there is limited scrutiny for small trade deals, and the Minister has spoken about enhanced scrutiny for the Japan deal. He will know, however,…20 Jul 2020HANSARD Trade BillMy hon. Friend is mentioning very large trade deals. Does he mean that the crux of this oversight is really required with those big trade deals, such as those with the US, China,…20 Jul 2020HANSARDThe EconomyI am very pleased that the hon. Gentleman is moving on to this group of people. He has just been talking about extending existing programmes from which they are excluded. In…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEconomic UpdateThe Chancellor has answered many specific questions, but I would like to commend the overall tone of his statement, which he began by saying that he would be “unencumbered by…08 Jul 2020HANSARDThe EconomyIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Gerald Jones). In a debate whose title is about the economy, too much of it has seemed to be a game of…08 Jul 2020HANSARD Arts, Culture and Heritage: Support PackageWith cases well below their peak and falling, and with transmission pathways increasingly and more rapidly under control, the Government should now be announcing specific dates…07 Jul 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe right to question authority is the essence of press freedom. Reporters Without Borders warns of a decisive decade of changes that will challenge that cherished freedom; the…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI am enjoying listening to a number of the arguments I have heard being put forward. On this issue of foreign offenders, is not the right answer to deal with their immigration…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI tried once, and I will try again with another Conservative colleague on this very question. We hear people trot out the stories that the Home Office has put forward about the…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI am very glad that I sat in on this debate today to learn the origins of the hostile environment. We learned today that the author of the hostile environment was none other than…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, particularly in stressing that the issue is not the people but the process: it is the process that does not work. An immigration detention…30 Jun 2020