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HANSARDEngagementsQ2. Today sees the start of Lent, traditionally a time of abstinence and giving things up. Recently, it has become a season of doing something new and positive. Does my right hon.…06 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, which bears the welcome hallmarks of British pragmatism and common sense, and I will continue to vote for her deal. She will be aware…26 Feb 2019HANSARDHorse Riders: Public Highways11. What assessment he has made of the safety needs of horse riders on the public highway.14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUThe task that the Secretary of State has set out in terms of the alternatives is large, and the window to deliver it is getting smaller. I appreciate that we are not going to…14 Feb 2019HANSARDHorse Riders: Public HighwaysThe rise of electric vehicles is, of course, environmentally welcome. However, their silence often presents a huge problem for riders, horses and, indeed, other road users as a…14 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsNever!13 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Local Government (Structural and Boundary Changes) (Supplementary Provisions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2019I thank my hon. Friend and his team for the work they have done in support of Dorset’s local government reorganisation. The point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerWe wait with bated breath.06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate Cancerrose—06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerI rise to open this five-hour Adjournment debate—that was a joke, Mr Deputy Speaker. This debate is certainly timely, given that on Monday this week we celebrated the 20th…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and I will turn to diagnosis in a moment. Let me return to the point I made a moment or so ago about fear. We will all have had family and…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerThe hon. Lady makes an incredibly telling point, because unless people know what the full range of symptoms are, they do not really know what they should be thinking and whether…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerA restless nation will sit easier in their armchairs knowing that, and we are grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for your public service announcement. To respond to the…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I think we both stand at roughly 5 feet 6 or 7 inches, although I might be slightly taller than him when he is in his stocking feet. I get…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerI am sure that I have come across that figure in my research, but I do not have it to hand. However, as I mentioned in my introductory remarks, the platforms to inform, encourage…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerI am very grateful that the Minister is setting this out in his customary detail. In a circumstance in which all those conversations have taken place, if the patient says, “Thank…06 Feb 2019HANSARD Prostate CancerI agree. In answer to the first part of the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, which I presume was rhetorical, I just want the Minister to carry on with the excellent work he is…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Buckinghamshire (Structural Changes) (modification of the local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007) Regulations 2019I think that is probably a question for the Minister, but in anything that my right hon. Friend read out from earlier correspondence either here or in the other place in reference…04 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Buckinghamshire (Structural Changes) (modification of the local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007) Regulations 2019She smiles so beguilingly. Go on.04 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Buckinghamshire (Structural Changes) (modification of the local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007) Regulations 2019I agree with my right hon. Friend on the latter point. On the idea that the powers were to be used “sparingly”, I would say define “sparingly”. My definition would be “not very…04 Feb 2019