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HANSARDCourts (Remote Hearings) BillI see that the Minister agrees. We have so few courts now compared with before that people have to travel further, with all the inconvenience that that leads to. The explanatory…11 Jul 2025HANSARD Rare Cancers BillI will respond briefly to the debate. In so doing, I thank my hon. Friends the Members for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) and for Farnham and Bordon (Gregory Stafford) for their…11 Jul 2025HANSARD Rare Cancers BillIs it possible to respond, Madam Deputy Speaker?11 Jul 2025HANSARDUnauthorised Entry to Football Matches BillMany people watching and observing proceedings in Parliament will wonder whether we have our priorities right. The Bill is about unauthorised entry to football matches in…11 Jul 2025HANSARDCourts (Remote Hearings) BillThe hon. Gentleman has a disarming smile and approach—dare I say, it is almost seductive? May I put to him an alternative proposition? He is in a position to influence the…11 Jul 2025HANSARDCourts (Remote Hearings) BillWell, I do not know; I am sure that I speak for many.11 Jul 2025HANSARD Rare Cancers BillI am not quite sure whether my hon. Friend is responding to the amendments or making a Third Reading speech. I hope he will address the amendments I have tabled, including those…11 Jul 2025HANSARDUnauthorised Entry to Football Matches BillI am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way and for the diligence with which she has approached this subject, including having discussed it on several occasions with me. She…11 Jul 2025HANSARDCourts (Remote Hearings) BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, but I am not sure that I agree. In essence, the criminal justice system is there to ensure that there is a level playing…11 Jul 2025HANSARD Secure 16 to 19 Academies BillI now have the chance to talk about the Bill. I did not have a chance on Second Reading, because the Bill went through on the nod, and I was not on the Bill Committee. I am the…11 Jul 2025HANSARDUnauthorised Entry to Football Matches BillThe hon. Lady is shaking her head, but that is in Baroness Casey’s report—she finds that there was a lot of drunken behaviour and evidence of drug taking. Those are criminal…11 Jul 2025HANSARD Rare Cancers BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brent West (Barry Gardiner). I echo his tribute to the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh), who continues to…11 Jul 2025HANSARDUnauthorised Entry to Football Matches Billrose—11 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Hours Extensions BillIn the light of the number of people who voted at 9.35 am, I think it is highly unlikely that any closure motion could be carried, because it would need 100 Members to support it.…04 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Hours Extensions BillI rise to speak only because I was not able to complete my intervention; as you rightly said, Madam Deputy Speaker, it was getting very long. The point I want to make in my short…04 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Hours Extensions BillI am so relieved to hear that. As a believer in freedom and choice, I think people should have the chance to go to the pub either to celebrate or to commiserate. I share the…04 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Hours Extensions BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way again. Will she also include within her inquiries, and her thoughts about ambition, some more control over the negative procedure?…04 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Hours Extensions BillWhen this Bill had its Second Reading, I put it to the Minister who was responding then, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham (Dame Diana Johnson),…04 Jul 2025HANSARDBusiness without DebateFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Would it be possible for you to explain why that is not a matter for the Chair? Surely if MPs are going to be deemed by the…13 Jun 2025HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am on record as having expressed my appreciation to the Leader of the House for her insistence that Ministers should give accurate and…22 May 2025