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HANSARDState Pension Triple LockWe do.08 Nov 2022HANSARDState Pension Triple LockWhat a treat to be the tail-end Charlie on the Government Benches, and it is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Barnsley East (Stephanie Peacock) and the very thoughtful…08 Nov 2022HANSARDGlasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use14. With reference to the Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, what recent steps he has taken with international partners to conserve forests.02 Nov 2022HANSARDGlasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land UseA lot of good work was done at COP26 by the then Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Reading West (Alok Sharma) and others to preserve the world’s forests. The…02 Nov 2022HANSARDDraft International Development Association (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) (Amendment) Order 2022
Draft International Development Association (Twentieth Replenishment) Order 2022I will contribute two quick thoughts. First, I echo what has been said by several people: it is great to see my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield back in a place…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI welcome the appointment of the Minister to this important and difficult role and everything that he said about making sure that the facilities at Manston are appropriate and…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseAs the first six months of the Homes for Ukraine scheme draw to a close, housing authorities, host families and refugees will be taking stock. There is likely to be a need for…27 Oct 2022HANSARDPensions Dashboards (Prohibition of Indemnification) BillAs a trustee of the parliamentary pension scheme, I should declare a relevant interest. Today is a great moment to congratulate two colleagues. The work on creating the pensions…26 Oct 2022HANSARDPensions Dashboards (Prohibition of Indemnification) BillThere may be some people listening to this debate who are unpaid trustees of pension funds and are concerned that these provisions will give them a huge potential liability. Will…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThis is a very simple point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. My right hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg) just said that I have never accepted the…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. [Interruption.]25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillFor some of us, the point is not the constitutional argument about which laws should be sovereign, which we may well happily accept, but the practical issue of how we convert…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Billrose —25 Oct 2022HANSARDNHS DentistryThis is the first debate for a long time in which I have agreed with every single word of the motion, so I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) and…20 Oct 2022HANSARDNHS DentistryThe points my hon. Friend is making are particularly important to constituencies such as hers, which have towns but are also rural.20 Oct 2022HANSARDNHS DentistryThe Minister is absolutely right: not only do we know the chief executive, but all Gloucestershire MPs have had regular meetings with them, including one specifically on this…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillThere is of course one great example of fracking in West Ham—fracking good football, which many of us watched at Upton Park and now at the new stadium. Today’s is an interesting…19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right—Yorkshiremen so often are, as the Minister knows. Local planning approval should absolutely be at the heart of the definition of local…19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillThe hon. Member makes a good point and it is disappointing, in a way, that SNP Members are not present to hear that, because they are huge supporters, in theory, of renewable…19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman says that anyone who votes for the Government amendment is voting for fracking. That is not correct. As he knows and you…19 Oct 2022