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HANSARDRural AffairsMy right hon. Friend is a very clever former Treasury Minister and I am not, so perhaps she can help me to reconcile these two statements. In essence, and in true Harold Macmillan…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsThe hon. Gentleman and I shared very similar concerns about the trade deals with Australia and New Zealand. We feared that imports would swamp the market, but fortunately that has…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsSome 88% of my constituency is hill, wood or farmland. It is the “Vale of Little Dairies”, in Thomas Hardy’s phrase. It is a mosaic of farms, both family-owned and estate and many…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Then we can think about the impact on insurance premiums, which will close businesses and put householders out of the insurance market,…11 Nov 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsSteve Tuckwell was a great man!06 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesThe Minister is seeing silver linings in the clouds hanging over family farms and tenanted farms in North Dorset, but I must confess that I fail to see them. I will give ask the…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Israel: UNRWA BanWith 90% of the Knesset voting for the Bill yesterday, it is surely naive to suggest that it will not be enacted. Therefore, other preparations need to be made. Despite the strong…29 Oct 2024HANSARD Postal Voting at General ElectionsI certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman that all those who are entrusted with the discharge and delivery of our elections—our police, our medical certifiers and others clearly…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Postal Voting at General ElectionsIf my hon. Friend means alternatives to feet on the pavements, then very possibly. The benefit of using the Royal Mail is that culturally it is aware of the seriousness of the…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Postal Voting at General ElectionsI am tempted to say that this Adjournment debate would not be an Adjournment debate—it would fail the Trade Descriptions Act—unless I gave way to the hon. Member for Strangford…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Postal Voting at General ElectionsWhat a delectable, delicious prospect we have before us: a two-and-a-half-hour Adjournment debate on postal voting. If the Whips thought that the hon. Member for…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Postal Voting at General ElectionsI am very grateful to the hon. Lady, not just for what she is saying about the issues, but for her very kind words. She has made a former Minister blush. In her conversations with…22 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ2. As evidenced by some earlier questions, issues surrounding SEND, local government finance and adult social care affect all of our constituents. Let us be honest: for too long,…16 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillOne can make a perfectly reasonable argument to say it should be offered to all. One can make an equally good argument that it should be offered only to hereditary peers who are…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThat is all clear and understood. The point that I was making, along with other Members, was that it would be a gesture of graceful good will to make life peers of those who are…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillBefore I begin my remarks, I apologise to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I have a meeting with a Minister at the Department of Health a little later, so I will have to slip out…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI say to the hon. Gentleman, whom I nearly called my hon. Friend because he is a friend, that I am more than likely to vote for this Bill on Second Reading. I possibly should have…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe hon. Lady’s argument would hold far more water if the Liberal Democrats adopted the position of not nominating anybody for the upper House until it was wholly elected.…15 Oct 2024HANSARD Gaza and LebanonI agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse). Tehran will not let Hamas and Hezbollah stop, and the lunatic right who are propping up…15 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsA significant impediment to improving adult social care is the split of budget and responsibility and policy between the Secretary of State’s Department and the Ministry of…15 Oct 2024