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HANSARDEngagements4. Noting the National Audit Office report today on the spiralling costs of using ex-military bases for migrants, and noting that the Home Office has announced this week that it…20 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI am worried about this. Will my right hon. Friend reassure me that nothing in this statement will add to the increasing culture, in what should be a free country, of the…14 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsAs a general election is not merely an expression of opinion but a serious choice, does my right hon. Friend agree that there is only one potential party of government that has…13 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsOn tax cutting, there has always been a social contract in this country by which people pay national insurance until they become of pensionable age, and then they do not pay…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget Resolutionsrose—11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThis is great knockabout stuff, but I would like to make a serious comment on the whole national insurance thing. With the retention of the triple lock and with fiscal drag, more…11 Mar 2024HANSARD Budget ResolutionsThe Chancellor, in his excellent speech, mentioned that he would unleash £100 million-worth of levelling up. Hon. Members may guess the subject to which I will briefly allude,…06 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingThere is a simple thing that the Department can do, which I have asked it to do again and again: not put solar farms on 3b land. We put them on warehouses or inferior land, but…04 Mar 2024HANSARD Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]I am not against this Bill, but I would like some general reassurance from the Minister. I am not the sort of Conservative who believes in more regulation, particularly when it…28 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingI remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called. We have three hours, which is quite a long time, but I want to get everybody in and I do not want to impose a time…26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingYou can have injury time if you want, Mr Davies.26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingOrder. Let’s not have a private bit. Let’s get on with it.26 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. Gainsborough was once the capital of England under the incomparable Sweyn Forkbeard. It is an historic market town with the Old Hall at its heart. What plans do the Government…22 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Leader of the House was right to withdraw from yesterday’s debate when it was clear that conventions were being broken. Those who put pressure on the Speaker to break with…22 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaWill my right hon. Friend give way?21 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaI wrote to the Foreign Secretary on 2 January and received a reply from one of his junior Ministers in the House of Lords about the plight of the 650 Christians held in the Holy…21 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaI have just been talking to a lady colleague who received a green card to go to speak to people in Westminster Hall. The moment she explained the Government’s position and her…21 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. There was an interesting debate in the House of Lords last night, in which Lord Hoffmann confirmed my understanding that the European Court of Human Rights was wrong to impose…20 Feb 2024HANSARDUK EconomyFor too long, too many people in the Treasury—not my hon. Friend, who is an excellent Minister—have thought that the best way to grow the economy is to fill the country with more…19 Feb 2024HANSARDInnovative Defence Technologies15. What steps his Department is taking to support innovative defence technologies.19 Feb 2024