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HANSARD Children’s Cancer Care: South-EastBefore I call Karin Smyth, I should say that this debate has to end by 6.54 pm according to our new timetable. That includes a maximum of two minutes for a response to the debate.13 Mar 2024HANSARD Children’s Cancer Care: South-EastMinister, over to you.13 Mar 2024HANSARD Sport: Gambling AdvertisingOrder. Before I call the Minister, I note that the hon. Lady began her speech by referring to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, but she did not expand on that at all.…13 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI agree with the hon. Gentleman that, by expanding the public sector and the number of administrators, we are undermining our attempts to increase productivity. The OBR says that…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy constituency has an enormous amount of sheltered housing and housing specifically for pensioners. A lot of it is vacant—it has been built, but it is not occupied at the moment.…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsDoes my hon. Friend agree that one of the problems is that we gave local authorities a power of general competence, and that we should have concentrated their mind on the things…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is a great privilege to follow the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant), who speaks for the Scottish National party. What I did not really hear from him was the…07 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillIs the hon. Gentleman referring to clause 4 and line 10 on page 3 of the Bill, where there a specific reference: “to suppress a sexual orientation”?01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillDoes my right hon. Friend agree that the noble Lord Winston put it well in the other place when he said, “The basic problem is this: we are at risk of legislating for a piece of…01 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhat is the latest position on a review of the impact of the statute of limitations on the ability of people injured by covid-19 vaccines to bring civil claims? More than 3,000…29 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank my right hon. Friend for withdrawing the motion scheduled for Monday, in response to the amendments that I tabled. Will she review the whole situation of risk-based…29 Feb 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I am afraid I do not agree with everything that the hon. Lady is saying, but I agree about the desirability of having emissions-free forms of transport in London, and one such…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I hope that my hon. Friend will make his own speech in due course, because I know he believes passionately about this issue. May I just refer him and other Members to the briefing…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I am very much in favour of regulation where it is necessary. To take the hon. Lady’s own council, Lambeth, I recall reading in a national newspaper in the past few days that…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend is right. So often in this place we find ourselves introducing new legislation because the legislation in place is not being enforced. My hon. Friend the…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I accept what my hon. Friend says, but if that is not the intention but it happens in practice that it is regulated out of existence, what will the Government do about it? Perhaps…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I am grateful to my hon. Friend, because in that case I am sure she will support an amendment, or perhaps draft it herself, to place on the face of the Bill exactly what she has…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]Fortunately, because there has not been much Government business today, we have a reasonable period of time for discussing the Bill. To summarise the point I was seeking to make,…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]Madam Deputy Speaker, I take your point completely, but this is not a situation where the Bill will go into Committee upstairs, the Committee will start with a couple of evidence…28 Feb 2024