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HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Anyone listening to the debate would think that it is all about saving children from choking on toys, buildings not burning down because of defective batteries in bicycles, saving…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Does the hon. Lady also accept that the Bill is not necessary to promote exports? If a company wants to export its products to Japan or Timbuktu, it will have to align with the…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I note that the hon. Member has described many of these toys as “illegal”. In other words, the law is there already. This Bill is therefore not necessary to deal with children…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Would the hon. Member accept that if Ministers got up at 9 o’clock in the morning and worked until 9 o’clock at night introducing regulations on the basis of this Bill every day,…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]The Minister gives the House the assurance that the idea is not to take us back to EU laws or to have EU laws imposed on the United Kingdom, and yet the Bill heavily references EU…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]Although Opposition Members will perhaps deliberately choose to believe that the words and assurances given are ambiguous, does the hon. Member accept that even Government Members…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillThat was the next point I was going to come to; the hon. Gentleman anticipated what I was going to say. We will place a burden not just on the retailer, but on those who work in…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillThe hon. Member will have the answer to that if he reflects on what we are debating today. We introduced that legislation, yet here we are, revisiting the issue, because people…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI want to speak to amendment 4 and the subsequent amendments in my name, and to new clause 3. It is right that where a public health issue is identified, this body should look at…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillIt is easier to distinguish between a 16-year-old and a 24-year-old. Usually, the younger the age, the easier it is to make that determination, but it is much more difficult when…26 Mar 2025HANSARDSpring StatementThe Chancellor has claimed today that she is building foundations for the economy, but sadly those foundations are built on sand—increased borrowing, higher inflation, lower…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Great British Energy BillWill the Minister accept that many people listening to this will see it as evading rather than addressing the issue? We can have the Procurement Act, the taskforce and the letters…25 Mar 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI hope that I can have this intervention without a musical interlude. I apologise to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for having my phone switched on. Will the hon. Member accept that…25 Mar 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillDoes the shadow Minister find it puzzling that the NHS will be exempt from these changes, yet the many services on which people depend for their health—dental services, social…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Great British Energy BillWill the Minister give way?25 Mar 2025HANSARDTrade Diversion and Windsor FrameworkThe Secretary of State says that the situation is unprecedented, and that unique arrangements have therefore been put in place. The Government recently recognised that the flow of…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTrade Diversion and Windsor Frameworkrose—04 Mar 2025HANSARDTrade Diversion and Windsor FrameworkYou shouldn’t encourage him, Madam Deputy Speaker—he will take to 7.30 pm and beyond, because this is such an important subject. Does the hon. and learned Gentleman agree that the…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTrade Diversion and Windsor FrameworkThe hon. and learned Member talks about that trade being infinitesimal—0.4% of EU trade crosses that border, yet it accounts for 20% of checks. Does he agree that that will not be…04 Mar 2025HANSARDGazaIt is a fact. The concern is that Hamas are now using aid as their major source of income and are seeking to control the billion-dollar aid industry there now is in Gaza. What…04 Mar 2025