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HANSARDInflation Reduction Act and Low Carbon IndustriesInstead of properly responding to America’s Inflation Reduction Act, the Government held a meeting with businesses yesterday—you might not have seen it, Mr Speaker, as it did not…28 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. I am pleased to contribute to this important topic on regulations relating to the free trade agreement that the UK…28 Nov 2023HANSARDFloating Offshore WindIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Angela. We have had a short but very good debate, and the enthusiasm for floating offshore wind has come across loud and…16 Nov 2023HANSARDEnergy-intensive Industries: DecarbonisationFor years people have been calling on the Government to have a proper plan to help our steel industry decarbonise. Instead, the industry has lurched from crisis to crisis, and now…19 Sept 2023HANSARDSchool Building ClosuresHow many publicity videos for party political purposes did the Secretary of State make for Conservative MPs on the day that she found out about the RAAC issue?19 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Automotive IndustryIt is a pleasure to take part in a debate on a sector whose past, present and future lie at the heart of British manufacturing. I know that many of my colleagues and their…18 Sept 2023HANSARD Post Office CompensationI thank the Minister for his statement and for advance sight of it. This is, of course, an issue of great importance and I thank him and his Department’s civil servants for the…18 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Automotive IndustryMy hon. Friend is doing an excellent job on behalf of her constituents, as, of course, did her predecessor, in standing up for the sector in many debates in this place. The Tories…18 Sept 2023HANSARDSteel IndustryIn Wales, it is reported that this Government will spend half a billion pounds to make thousands of Port Talbot steelworkers redundant. Head north to Derby to a train assembly…14 Sept 2023HANSARD Draft Police Act 1997 (Criminal Record Certificates: Relevant Matter) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship on our first day back after the summer recess, Dame Angela. I thank the Minister for her remarks. I will not keep the Committee…04 Sept 2023HANSARD Metropolitan Police: Stephen Lawrence Murder InvestigationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the institutional problems is that we do not have systems in place to stop these things happening in the first place; therefore they can…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Metropolitan Police: Stephen Lawrence Murder InvestigationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Davies. May I start by echoing everybody else in thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) for giving such a…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Metropolitan Police: Stephen Lawrence Murder InvestigationI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. She is right, and one thing that Baroness Casey found in her report was a defensiveness. That is why it was first suggested in the…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Metropolitan Police: Stephen Lawrence Murder InvestigationWill the Minister give way?12 Jul 2023HANSARD Metropolitan Police: Stephen Lawrence Murder InvestigationThat is a really important point. On that point, it is no coincidence that the majority of my colleagues on the Labour Benches who are speaking today are women who happen to be…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Metropolitan Police: Stephen Lawrence Murder InvestigationThat is a very good point, and I completely understand what my hon. Friend says. Like everybody else, I pay tribute to the Lawrence family and to Baroness Lawrence, who is here…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Metropolitan Police: Stephen Lawrence Murder InvestigationWhen the Government respond, it would be helpful for a Minister to come to the House and make an oral statement so that we can all have the opportunity to comment, because we have…12 Jul 2023HANSARD Antisocial Behaviour and Off-road BikesThank you, Mr Pritchard; it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I will probably not take all the time that we have—you might be pleased by that. I congratulate the…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Antisocial Behaviour and Off-road BikesI thank my hon. Friend for her helpful intervention. I am sure the Minister will address that in his speech. If the people are good enough to put their trust in us, the next…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Antisocial Behaviour and Off-road BikesI understand where the hon. Gentleman is coming from. No one wants anything to close. Indeed, it is a great shame that nearly 700 police stations have been closed under this…11 Jul 2023