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HANSARD Draft United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Services Exclusions) Regulations 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Elliott. As the Minister said, my party did not support the United Kingdom Internal Market Act. The powers that ought to have…25 Oct 2023HANSARDTrade Policies: Cost of FoodThe Government could stop making existing global problems even worse when they apply to the UK—I was following up on the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North…14 Sept 2023HANSARDSupport for Kinship CarersIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Vickers. I congratulate the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) on securing the debate, and I welcome everyone with an…14 Sept 2023HANSARDTrade Policies: Cost of FoodAs if the future stoking of inflation through extra Brexit red tape was not bad enough, businesses are already having to cope with uncertainty, the lack of a level playing field…14 Sept 2023HANSARDHMPPS UpdateI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. My party hopes Khalife will soon return to custody. Leaving aside the extraordinary manner of the details of the…07 Sept 2023HANSARD Tax-free Shopping for International VisitorsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Huq. I take this opportunity to sincerely congratulate the hon. Member for The Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) not only…07 Sept 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI am well aware that time is limited; you will be pleased to hear, Mr Speaker, that so too is my capacity for repeating arguments that I have made many times previously. My party…06 Sept 2023HANSARDCost of LivingThe cost of living crisis is clearly continuing to bite hard in Northern Ireland, with footfall at stores across Northern Ireland falling by 5% throughout August. What steps is…06 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt has been revealed that Integrated Debt Services, a company set up by the UK Government to recover personal debt, saw its profits increase by a staggering 132% last year. Do…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) BillI, too, welcome the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) to his new position, and I look forward to working alongside him as we discharge our respective roles in…04 Sept 2023HANSARDPolice Service of Northern Ireland: Security and Data Protection BreachI join the Secretary of State in offering my thanks to Simon Byrne for his service. I believe his decision today, however, is the right one. This represented a shocking breach of…04 Sept 2023HANSARDTwo-child Limit: Child PovertyA recent study by the University of York found that the two-child limit and the benefit cap had contributed to rising child poverty, which, allied to wider benefit cuts, had…04 Sept 2023HANSARDTwo-child Limit: Child Poverty12. What assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the two-child limit on trends in the level of child poverty.04 Sept 2023HANSARD Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipIt feels unnecessary to repeat this, but this Government seem willing to sign up to any trade deals. My party is in favour of good ones, and we are against poor ones, and that is…18 Jul 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI do not intend to spend long on my feet, as I have made all the points that I would seek to make on this Bill at previous stages. It is also important that we get to hear as many…18 Jul 2023HANSARDAutomotive IndustryI had ample cause to reflect as I listened to the Minister’s speech, replete with positivity as it was, that there are probably not all that many electric vehicles on the market…12 Jul 2023HANSARDAutomotive IndustryI was coming to the end of my remarks, but I will give way since I mentioned the hon. Member.12 Jul 2023HANSARDAutomotive IndustryI share my hon. Friend’s concern. [ Interruption. ] There is some sedentary chuntering—if the hon. Member for Bosworth (Dr Evans) gives me a chance to respond to the intervention,…12 Jul 2023HANSARDAutomotive IndustryI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but I could not disagree more. This is not a stable platform. The Conservatives are offering us the stability of decline, and it…12 Jul 2023HANSARDAutomotive IndustryI was very surprised about that. It seems to be the elephant in the room, and of this discussion. If my hon. Friend is patient, I will come to that towards the end of my speech.…12 Jul 2023