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HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance ReductionsOrder. I suggest four minutes from now on.04 Nov 2025HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance ReductionsOrder.04 Nov 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI am still smarting from my hon. Friend’s reluctance to squash the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Rachel Blake), who alleged that there had been no leasehold…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxThe hon. Lady referred to the trade deals—so many more than were achieved under the Conservative Government, she says—but the reality is that those trade deals could not have been…28 Oct 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas IndustryHas the Minister made any estimate of the likely impact on Petrofac and similar enterprises of the extension of the energy profits levy?27 Oct 2025HANSARD Building Safety RegulatorOrder. I suggest a time limit of five minutes. Mr Tice, do you wish to speak?23 Oct 2025HANSARD Building Safety RegulatorCan we try harder to stick to five minutes?23 Oct 2025HANSARD Alleged Spying Case: Role of Attorney General’s OfficeNone of it makes sense—not the collapsed trial, Chagos or the embassy—but, as my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) says, it all makes sense if…23 Oct 2025HANSARD Building Safety RegulatorOh, I see. That is very gracious of you. We will have Mr Mike Reader then.23 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillThe importance of the sunset clause is that it relieves the monstrous contradiction we have had from the Government. They have presented this legislation as an emergency measure…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillThe active management of the prison service at those levels of occupation was of course hard work, but that hard work was absolutely necessary, and far preferable to simply taking…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Postural Tachycardia SyndromeOrder. Interventions should be shorter.14 Oct 2025HANSARDInternational Rail Services: AshfordOrder. I suggest a time limit of six minutes.14 Oct 2025HANSARD Northern Ireland TroublesLike the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State should stop using the phrase, “The legislation was struck down by the courts.” The courts have no such power. As Jack Straw made…14 Oct 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesI have some advice for the hon. Member for Rugby: those that lick the feet of the unworthy gain for themselves nothing but a dirty tongue. [ Laughter. ]16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesIt is. Am I mistaken in my belief that there is a convention in the House that when the Leader of the Opposition puts their hand on the Dispatch Box and seeks to intervene, the…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.16 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillOne reason that so many of those cases do not end up in a tribunal is that businesses, cognisant of the loss of management time and £15,000 to £20,000 in fees, simply pay up…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillLet me take the Secretary of State back to zero-hours contracts. The seasonality of the hospitality industry and, indeed, boat building down in my constituency, where large…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillWill the Secretary of State give way?15 Sept 2025