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HANSARDLevelling-up AgendaOrder. We have 13 Back-Bench speakers. If there is to be any chance of everybody getting in, we will have to have a tight time limit. I will set it at three and a half minutes at…15 Jun 2021HANSARDLevelling-up AgendaMinister, could you please give the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely) a couple of minutes to make his closing remarks?15 Jun 2021HANSARDLevelling-up AgendaThank you for a very good debate on the levelling-up fund—I wish that Gainsborough could get some of the levelling-up fund too, but that is not for me to say. Question put and…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Have you heard from the Prime Minister this afternoon, because I am astonished that he is not coming to the House to make this…14 Jun 2021HANSARDUyghur Tribunal: LondonI suspect that the Chinese Government do not care a damn what we say in this Chamber, but they do care about what British business is doing and if it withdraws business as a…14 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement: AustraliaI am speaking from Lincolnshire, the bread basket of England. It is a prosperous county, but in the area of world free trade before the second world war, we could walk on derelict…10 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement: AustraliaWhat progress she has made in securing a free trade agreement with Australia.10 Jun 2021HANSARD British CouncilThe French and the Germans are steadily increasing their efforts through the Goethe-Institut and the French Institute, where I spent many happy hours trying to bone up on my…08 Jun 2021HANSARD 0.7% Official Development Assistance TargetThere have been some very moving speeches today. I could spend the time allotted to me repeating the humanitarian points, which by the way I believe in, that we have a duty to the…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPeople SmugglingDoes the Minister recognise the public anger at our being made fools of in this? Border Force is little more than a taxi service for illegal migrants—it is ridiculous. Will the…07 Jun 2021HANSARDPeople SmugglingWhat steps her Department is taking to tackle people smuggling.07 Jun 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsDoes the Home Secretary recall that I wrote to her on 20 April on behalf of Aid to the Church in Need about the case of Maira Shahbaz? I still await a reply. Maira is a…07 Jun 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.07 Jun 2021HANSARD BBC: Dyson ReportWhen are we going to have the guts to stop the BBC criminalising people for non-payment of the licence fee, which is no better than the poll tax?24 May 2021HANSARDRestoration and Renewal of the Palace of WestminsterIt is so wonderful to all come together and find a way forward. I can provide a way forward, because I have been working with SAVE on the matter. This is called the Mark Hines…20 May 2021HANSARDRestoration and Renewal of the Palace of WestminsterThere is a lot of what the right hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mark Tami) said that I agree with. Let us get on with it. Let us come together in this. I commend both the…20 May 2021HANSARDRestoration and Renewal of the Palace of WestminsterThat is extremely helpful because, as I said, I have to work with what we have at the moment, and from what the spokesperson for the Sponsor Body now says, we seem to have moved…20 May 2021HANSARDStrength of the Union: 2021 Senedd ElectionDoes my hon. Friend agree that, following the elections, and apart from evident self-interest, the Union is ever stronger because of abundant common interest?19 May 2021HANSARDStrength of the Union: 2021 Senedd ElectionWhat assessment he has made of the effect of the outcome of the 2021 Senedd election on the strength of the Union.19 May 2021HANSARDSupreme Court ReformWhat recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming the Supreme Court.18 May 2021