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HANSARD Public OrderWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderI can assure the right hon. Gentleman that this House legislated a long time ago to ensure that people who engage in those activities are fully regulated by the law, and the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderI am a Protestant. I have sought to live up to that title throughout my political involvement. I have taken part in many protests, as Protestants should. That is why we got our…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderWell, let us take the Extinction Rebellion protests we had here. Stars were flying in from America to join them. They did not feel any qualms about it. They did not even see the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderA number of Members have made the point that that leaves interpretation for the police. Has the community been affected? What has been the cumulative effect? Is the protest too…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionIt is easy to give an assurance that the panel is not there to decide innocence or guilt. However, the fact that it decides on the basis of information from the police, with a…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionDoes the hon. Gentleman accept that the reverse of what the hon. Member for Warrington North (Charlotte Nichols) says is that a Member could be excluded from this House, the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionWill the hon. Gentleman give way?12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionIn his last remark, does the hon. Gentleman not see how we can get these measures creeping? Where is the consistency in saying, “This panel has decided you’re not safe, Mr MP or…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionI accept that, but the report talks about referring this to the Speaker’s Conference to see what measures could be taken, because it is recognised that there is a logical step…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionI am glad that this is just a general debate, because I suspect that were there to be a vote at the end, many Members, even those who have grave doubts about these proposals,…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionI agree with the hon. Lady on this one. If we go down the route of saying that an individual should not be in this House because they are a danger to staff, they are not going to…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionWhere an individual is excluded from coming here, from meeting constituents here, from talking to lobbyists here and from taking part in debates here—eventually, that exclusion…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionI do not see it as that, because what individual parties decide to do to safeguard their own reputation is up to those parties, and MPs sign up to that as members of their party.…12 Jun 2023HANSARDReaching Net Zero: Local Government RoleI congratulate the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) on securing this debate and on the email that she sent me, inviting me to participate in it. She may well regret that…05 Jun 2023HANSARDCovid 19 Inquiry: Judicial ReviewThe Swedish inquiry reported 15 months ago. Our inquiry is only starting to take evidence now, and is expected to take three years. We now have further delay with this legal…05 Jun 2023HANSARDReaching Net Zero: Local Government RoleIronically, the huge windmills that we see generating renewable electricity, because of the method by which they are pegged, get the most costly rate. For example, if the last…05 Jun 2023HANSARDReaching Net Zero: Local Government RoleI do not want to get into the argument, because I know that you, Mr Deputy Speaker, would probably ask me to stop, but I do not agree with the association that the hon. Lady…05 Jun 2023HANSARDReaching Net Zero: Local Government RoleNo, I do not, and nor does the evidence, which shows that the number of people who have died in extreme climate events has declined; it has fallen quite significantly during the…05 Jun 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI pass on our condolences from the DUP to the family of Karen Lumley on her death. In October this year, according to the GB border model proposals, checks on goods from or…25 May 2023