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HANSARD Ukraine UpdateWhat worries me is that President Putin has said he will not accept NATO troops on the ground. In the absence of NATO troops on the ground, could we not be back to a 1939…22 Apr 2025HANSARD Ukraine UpdateIt had better be good!22 Apr 2025HANSARD British SteelLet me ask a question on behalf of my constituents who have sweated blood to keep the blast furnaces going. Unfortunately, as we know, electric arc technology cannot make virgin…22 Apr 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillThere we are: some of us apparently warned the Government. I do not know how many. We now know the true nature of our Chinese friends. We support the Bill. Let us make our steel…12 Apr 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillI have just come off the phone to Tom Smith, the trade union convenor at the blast furnaces, on behalf of my many constituents who work next door in Scunthorpe. My primary concern…12 Apr 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillI give way to our former leader.12 Apr 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillOf course I am, because I just said that. I have just admitted that it was a mistake, but I ask everybody what they were saying at the time. Of course, there is silence. It is…12 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. I am a simple soul, so I trust the Foreign Secretary completely. Will he assure me that nothing in the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill, which we are debating only this…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]This is all very important. There has been some merriment about the pint, but in the novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell, the hero goes into a pub, and somebody there…01 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the Home Secretary consider raising an obvious lacuna in the law in the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe? Under the refugee convention, we can automatically…31 Mar 2025HANSARD Scunthorpe SteelworksScunthorpe neighbours my constituency, and many of my constituents who work there will be desperately worried today. This is a vital national interest—a crisis. For the past 150…27 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI agree with everything that my hon. Friend is saying about smoking, but the elephant in this room is the dramatic decline in legal tobacco sales. According to HMRC, they have…26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsUnder the refugee convention, we can automatically deport illegal migrants who come here, but under the European convention on human rights we cannot. I had a probing new clause…25 Mar 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillWhen I visited staff at the much-loved St Barnabas hospice in Lincoln, which provides excellent palliative care, they told me that they are losing £300,000 a year. In the debates…25 Mar 2025HANSARDDisruption at HeathrowFollowing that last question, can the Secretary of State give us an absolute assurance that nothing in our drive towards green energy and net zero will ever affect the…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Tourism IndustryI remind Members that if they wish to speak they need to bob.20 Mar 2025HANSARD Conflict in GazaI agree with everything the Foreign Secretary has said, in particular that we have to give hope to the Palestinian people. To be fair to the Israeli Government position, Hamas…20 Mar 2025HANSARD Tourism IndustryI will not impose a formal time limit, but there are eight people trying to take part in the debate, so please be considerate when you give your speeches. I know somebody who will…20 Mar 2025HANSARD Tourism IndustryIt is only a pity that nobody mentioned beautiful, bracing Skegness in this debate. Question put and agreed to. Resolved , That this House has considered Government support for…20 Mar 2025HANSARD Tourism IndustryI assure my right hon. Friend, on behalf of the whole House, that we love south-west Scotland—almost as much as Dudley.20 Mar 2025