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HANSARDEnergy (oil and gas) profits levyI will not give way, as the right hon. Gentleman has just spoken. The British people need a Government who truly value public services, and who focus on removing barriers to…22 Nov 2022HANSARD Autumn StatementThis cost-of-chaos Budget will cause untold pain for everyone, with soaring mortgages, unfair tax hikes and further cuts to our struggling public services. This Conservative…17 Nov 2022HANSARDBritain’s Industrial FutureThe UK economy is simply not working for British people today and is not fit to face the challenges of tomorrow. After years of slow growth, low investment and declining…15 Nov 2022HANSARDSri LankaFirst, I declare an interest as a vice-chair of the APPG for Tamils, along with other Members who have already contributed to this excellent debate, which it is a privilege to be…09 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesThe hon. Member is particularly right on that. Where particular types of flight are known to be noisier, there should be additional restrictions. Members listening to the scale of…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesVery briefly.08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesDoes the hon. Lady mind if I make a bit more progress? In children, sleep disruption makes it more difficult for them to retain focus throughout the day. Studies have suggested…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesAnd also why, because they have no visibility, which makes it very hard for us.08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesYou talk there about a full analysis. I just wonder whether you can confirm that that will include—08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesI beg your pardon, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wonder whether the Minister can confirm that that will be a full analysis of the health and mental wellbeing impacts and of all the…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesI thank my hon. Friend for that comment. She is precisely right. Our concern relates not only to night flights, but very much to the fact that Heathrow expansion would lead to…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesI thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention; he is absolutely right. The Government state that their policy is to “limit and, where possible, reduce the number of…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about expansion, and I will come on to that later. The current night flight quotas are in place until October 2025. The Government have…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesThe hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth Cadbury) makes an excellent point, and she and I share views on this issue.08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesYes.08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesThe hon. Lady makes an excellent point and I thank her for intervention. What we are hearing from all parts of the House—well, certainly all the parties on the Opposition side of…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesIt is very kind of the Minister to give way again. Will he elaborate slightly on some of those numbers and whether it might be possible for members of the public and Members of…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesIndeed, that is the pertinent question: what are the Government going to do?08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesThat point is powerfully made. The Government set the current night flight regime at Heathrow airport, but the restrictions are simply not stringent enough and the true number of…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Night Flights: Impact on CommunitiesI will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) first.08 Nov 2022