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HANSARD Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillIt is welcome that, under new management in the Labour party, the country can probably rest assured that after an interlude the Labour party has returned to the attitude that…27 Jan 2021HANSARDCouncil Tax: Government’s Proposed IncreaseMay we just leave London for a moment? There is a real dissonance between what people pay in a big city such as London and what people pay and get back in a rural area such as…25 Jan 2021HANSARDEquitable LifeI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) for the way that he introduced the debate, and I am proud, with him, to be a sponsor of it. This has turned into a…21 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillI think we need to be far more robust about calling out genocide when it takes place. I can do no better than quote our present Prime Minister, writing in the Financial Times in…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillI understand the point my right hon. Friend is making, and we do not have a free trade deal with China at the moment, and we are not likely to, but many of us for years have been…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Financial Services BillThere is one overseas territory that is intimately connected to the EU: Gibraltar, which values its financial independence. I would just like to use this opportunity—I am sure the…13 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19As I was waiting in the Library for this debate to start, I happened to notice on the shelves a book about Edmund Burke, and as this debate is about the balance between the…12 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19On that point, to me, the right strategy to stop the NHS being overwhelmed seems to be to have a flexible tier system, whereby we work out whether local hospitals in each region…12 Jan 2021HANSARDIndia: Persecution of Minority GroupsWe should congratulate the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) on ensuring that we had the debate and on the comprehensive way in which he moved it. I suppose we started…12 Jan 2021HANSARDIndia: Persecution of Minority GroupsWill the hon. Gentleman allow me?12 Jan 2021HANSARDHouse BuildingWhat steps his Department is taking to promote house building.11 Jan 2021HANSARDHouse BuildingThere are about 100 small rural villages in my Gainsborough constituency, and I doubt there has been any building of social housing in any of them over the past 40 years. It is…11 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthI have just been talking to my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox) who is a doctor. He showed me the ridiculous form that he has had to fill in to be able to…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I thank the Prime Minister for listening to our representations on keeping places of worship open. Does this not show how, if we work together with a pragmatic approach, we can…06 Jan 2021HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillI congratulate the right hon. and learned Gentleman on doing the patriotic and right thing today, but there is quite a lot of interest in the country in what deal he would have…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillWill the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?30 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateOn behalf of my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes), may I thank the Secretary of State for meeting us and for promising that he will…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Immigration Rules: Supported AccommodationSooner or later, there is going to be an appalling tragedy in the channel. The reason economic migrants make this crossing is that they know that our present asylum laws are a…16 Dec 2020HANSARD Uyghur Slave Labour: XinjiangIn the 19th century, the House of Commons established its legacy on behalf of the enslaved and persecuted people in the world with the slavery and emancipation Acts. Is the…16 Dec 2020HANSARD Breast Cancer ScreeningOrder. As a matter of courtesy, it is normal for Ministers to address the Chair.16 Dec 2020