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HANSARD Public HealthI did not hear my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister make the promise that the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that he made. I think my right hon. Friend is being perfectly honest…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI have to say that, although there are many points of merit in what the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) said, he has left the House and the…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Independent Expert PanelI just misled the House. The hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) would not have to swear allegiance to the Crown; he would have the oath administered to him.…25 Nov 2020HANSARD ICGS Investigations: Commons-Lords AgreementThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will just speak very briefly to this matter. The Chair of the Standards Committee sends his apologies. He has had to take a close relative to…25 Nov 2020HANSARD Independent Expert PanelI entirely support the idea that we should bring on to the panel people who have juridical experience in the courts, and I commend my right hon. Friend and the Commission for…25 Nov 2020HANSARD Independent Expert PanelI am here as a member of the Standards Committee, which has absolutely no jurisdiction over the adjudication of any ICGS case, but it certainly falls within the remit of the…25 Nov 2020HANSARD Independent Expert PanelI rise only briefly, as an observer rather than a participant. As I pointed out a minute ago, the Standards Committee has no role in this, though we were consulted about the shape…25 Nov 2020HANSARD ICGS Investigations: Commons-Lords AgreementI will certainly take back to the Committee what my right hon. Friend is saying, and if we need to make a further amendment to the arrangements, we should do so. As things stand,…25 Nov 2020HANSARD ICGS Investigations: Commons-Lords AgreementI think that would be a matter more for the Lords Appointments Commission or the vetting procedures—25 Nov 2020HANSARD ICGS Investigations: Commons-Lords AgreementThat does not fall under our remit at all, but in recent cases that I can think of, an estoppel has been put on possible elevations to the other place of Members who are under…25 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesMay I report to the House through you, Mr Speaker, that the Liaison Committee met last week and discussed this matter at some length? Will my right hon. Friend respect how…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend’s strategy is, as he keeps reporting to the House, to “suppress the virus” until a vaccine can be deployed, but this is still beset by so many uncertainties.…10 Nov 2020HANSARDCommittee on StandardsI very much regret it, but I do not think I can support my right hon. Friend on this particular matter, because I do not believe that being a member of a political party makes…10 Nov 2020HANSARDArmed Forces: Covid-19 DeploymentNHS Test and Trace has grown from literally zero to being the size of Asda in little more than six months, and it would be difficult to imagine an organisation that has grown so…10 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19If I may just respond to the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (Gavin Newlands), I do not feel that this House is ignoring Scotland; I feel that this House has voted…02 Nov 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI thank my right hon. Friend for his response to the letter I sent on behalf of the Liaison Committee concerning what might change as tighter restrictions were applied. His letter…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMay I thank the Prime Minister for the bitter medicine that he has had to deliver over the last two or three days? I assure him that I will support his measures, because nobody…02 Nov 2020HANSARDForeign Affairs CommitteeI congratulate my hon. Friend on a really interesting and readable, well-presented report, which should be the foundation of our thinking about a new and confident United Kingdom…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateI thank my right hon. Friend for bringing forward this package, for listening and for acting in the interests of the economy. Is it not essential that we align the interests of…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMost of the MPs in Essex have reluctantly felt the need to support the tier 2 measures that are now being applied, but we are very concerned about the effect of this on the…19 Oct 2020