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HANSARDHeritage-Led Regeneration7. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of heritage-led regeneration projects.03 Oct 2019HANSARDHeritage-Led RegenerationThe Government have done wonders for heritage regeneration, and I am grateful for the Minister’s confirmation of the successful bid by Gloucester’s cathedral quarter to the…03 Oct 2019HANSARD International Climate ActionThe decision to hold the UN climate change summit 2020 in Glasgow was a great success for Anglo-Italian diplomacy. It also highlights an advantage for Scotland of being a member…26 Sept 2019HANSARD Hong KongThe 98th anniversary of the Communist party of China approaches imminently, and there are range of issues which the Foreign Secretary knows are delicately balanced. One, of…26 Sept 2019HANSARD Thomas CookI welcome the action taken on the priorities, which are to repatriate customers as soon as possible and to help innocent staff, such as those at Thomas Cook in Gloucester, to get…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateThe problem with the Act that the Prime Minister calls the surrender Act is that many of those who supported it are not so much against no deal as against leaving the European…25 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI understand the hon. Gentleman’s point of view. There are 650 Members of this House, all of whom, if we designed the perfect deal ourselves individually, would have differences…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillMy right hon. Friend is making an absolutely valid point. There is a huge amount of virtue signalling in the House from people who do not want no deal but will not vote for a…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillIt is a perfectly valid point that this short amendment does not allow for every conceivable possibility that might exist out there. It does not—unlike this Bill, tabled by the…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI am very grateful to my hon. Friend. That is the key point: when constituents ask us, “Will this House have the final say before we go to a no-deal exit from the European…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. One reason I drafted this very short amendment in the way that I did, with the help of the Clerks, was precisely not to take away the pads…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillMy constituency neighbour is absolutely right, but my aim is not so much to smoke out—to use his phrase—the motives and underlying thoughts of colleagues across this House, but to…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillMy amendment suggests that there are three options for this House to vote for on Monday 21 October. The first is the withdrawal agreement as it was presented to the House…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillIn fact, the hon. Gentleman misreads part of the point of my amendment, which is not to prejudge whether or not the Prime Minister and this Government come back with a deal. I…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThe short answer to that is almost certainly no. However, we have had not just five days of debate, but weeks and months and years of debate on these issues. The previous deal,…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI rise to seek colleagues’ patience in proposing something that I believe is a compromise that many Members in this House have long sought and many people have expressed support…04 Sept 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI beg to move amendment 19, in clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out subsections (1) to (3) and insert— ‘(1A) After this Act has been passed, but no later than 21 October 2019, the…04 Sept 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe need five more sitting days for parliamentary approval of the accession of the Republic of North Macedonia to NATO. Will this be achieved before the next slightly premature…03 Sept 2019HANSARDHong KongThe Minister is absolutely right to say how much he deeply regrets the events in Tsuen Wan and Yuen Long in particular over the past couple of days. All of us who wish Hong Kong…22 Jul 2019HANSARDPersecution of Christians OverseasMy hon. Friend is making a powerful case, and the Bishop of Truro’s report is a very strong one, but I am sure that my hon. Friend would also recognise that there are terrible…18 Jul 2019