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HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management Scheme: Food ProductionI thank my hon. Friend the Minister for that encouraging winding-up speech. What I would like to see is substance on her words, which is a much bigger challenge and something our…01 Feb 2022HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management Scheme: Food ProductionI beg to move, That this House has considered food production and the Environmental Land Management Scheme. I begin by drawing attention to my entry in the Register of Members’…01 Feb 2022HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management Scheme: Food ProductionI am grateful to my hon. Friend. He could have rewritten my speech; if he is able to stay for the end—I know that he has other engagements—he will hear me say almost exactly that.…01 Feb 2022HANSARDEnvironmental Land Management Scheme: Food ProductionI could not agree more with my hon. Friend, the excellent Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. He is 100% right: there are a lot of opportunities all over…01 Feb 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend alluded to the fact that the committee’s work will be retrospective. Any citizen could suggest to the committee that the Government should change policy in a…18 Jan 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]Can my right hon. Friend confirm whether the Bill as drafted contains birds?18 Jan 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to catch your eye in this important but short debate, on a short and, in my view, unnecessary Bill. Of course we can all accept…18 Jan 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]I sense the Minister is coming to a conclusion, but she has not answered one of my questions about the composition of the committee. Will she give an assurance that it will take…18 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding SafetyI draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as a chartered surveyor. I warmly welcome today’s announcement. May I ask my right hon.…10 Jan 2022HANSARDDignity in DyingHow would my right hon. Friend’s Bill prevent relatives or others from putting pressure on the person to ask for this procedure to be put in place?08 Dec 2021HANSARDAUKUS: Impact on Anglo-Chinese RelationsAustralia.20 Oct 2021HANSARDAUKUS: Impact on Anglo-Chinese RelationsI would question what the hon. Gentleman says about nuclear proliferation. If these submarines were going to carry nuclear weapons, he would possibly have a case, but these are…20 Oct 2021HANSARDAUKUS: Impact on Anglo-Chinese RelationsThank you, Mr Davies, for allowing me to take part in this debate. I would like to thank the Minister; she and I have not always agreed on everything, but we have moved on, and I…20 Oct 2021HANSARDAUKUS: Impact on Anglo-Chinese RelationsMay I congratulate my hon. Friend on an outstanding speech? Indeed, it is one of the most outstanding speeches that I have heard in this Chamber in my time in Parliament. I will…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI have great respect for my hon. Friend as the vaccines Minister, but I find what he has announced this evening deeply troubling. I think it will pit parents against parents and…13 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanIn 2007, the then Labour Government sent a small cross-party group of Members of Parliament to Afghanistan, and I was one of them. We were in Lashkar Gah when a group of our…18 Aug 2021HANSARDNewport Wafer Fab Sale(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy if he will make a statement on the sale of the Newport Wafer Fab semiconductors plant…15 Jul 2021HANSARD Future of the Planning System in EnglandI congratulate the Chairman and his Committee on producing a very comprehensive and constructive report on this all-encompassing subject. In the report, he says: “We think the…17 Jun 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMr Speaker, this is an unexpected surprise, and I am sure it is for the Secretary of State as well. I am sure that he will be interested in my question. Ultimately, these…14 Jun 2021HANSARD Aviation, Travel and Tourism IndustriesI am delighted to see my hon. Friend and neighbour, the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Robert Courts), at the Dispatch Box, and I am…10 Jun 2021