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HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI know that you, Mr Speaker, take a close interest in the enormous restoration and renewal project in this House, which is estimated to cost at least £10 billion of anybody’s…31 Oct 2024HANSARDBudget Resolutionsrose —30 Oct 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI thank the Chair of the Treasury Committee and congratulate her on her new role. There was one very welcome bit of the Budget today, and that was the funding for the infected…30 Oct 2024HANSARD Fiscal RulesIf we could stick with the here and now, what the Chancellor announced caused the bond markets to move almost immediately by almost 0.5%. That means that interest rates will stay…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSt Helena: UK ImmigrationThe Minister has repeated several times this afternoon that no migrants have gone to BIOT in the last two years. He studiously avoided answering my right hon. Friend, the shadow…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Farming and Food SecurityMy hon. Friend guested on the Public Accounts Committee last year, when we had a full inquiry on this issue. There is a real need for proper capital investment, because the…08 Oct 2024HANSARD Farming and Food SecurityI am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I would like to pay tribute to my neighbour, the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage), for an excellent maiden…08 Oct 2024HANSARDBritish Indian Ocean Territory: NegotiationsThere is no dispute in the House that Diego Garcia is a vital strategic base in the heart of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Will the Foreign Secretary undertake, when he…07 Oct 2024HANSARDRape and Sexual Violence: Victim SupportIn the last Session, when the Public Accounts Committee looked at the effect of delays in the criminal justice system on serious sexual and rape cases, it found that some cases…10 Sept 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhat steps will the British Government be taking, following the highly disputed result in Venezuela of the election of President Maduro, to work with our American colleagues over…30 Jul 2024HANSARD NATO and European Political Community MeetingsI too congratulate the Prime Minister on what was obviously a successful series of meetings last week. He has set out some of his new policies to deal with illegal migration…22 Jul 2024HANSARD UkraineThe news that my right hon. Friend has given the House this afternoon on the amount of military equipment and money going into Ukraine is greatly encouraging. Britain has…20 May 2024HANSARD UkraineI think this House is at its best when we get serious issues of this kind, and those on all sides of the House are in agreement—broad agreement—about what needs to be done. We…20 May 2024HANSARD UkraineThe Public Accounts Committee looked in great detail at how we built capacity during the covid pandemic for producing vaccines. Will the Minister look at the lessons learned in…20 May 2024HANSARD UkraineI entirely accept what the hon. Gentleman has said. As Russian advances were being made in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was making a state visit to China, in a show of strength. China…20 May 2024HANSARD AgricultureI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way, and I apologise to the House for not being present at the opening stages of this debate; I was in the Public Accounts…13 May 2024HANSARDWar in GazaIsrael is our friend and ally, but that does not stop us questioning its actions. My right hon. Friend the Deputy Foreign Secretary says that he wants to see much more aid getting…07 May 2024HANSARD Renters (Reform) BillSurely the whole point of a tribunal is for the tribunal judge to set what he thinks is a fair market price. It might go up, it might go down or it might stay the same, but that…24 Apr 2024HANSARD Renters (Reform) BillIn rural areas such as mine where housing is already very expensive, more and more landlords are already deciding that letting their properties out is not worth the candle. They…24 Apr 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyWe know that legacy IT systems are most likely to be cyber-attacked. Has the Deputy Prime Minister ordered an inventory of all Government IT equipment, to see where particular…25 Mar 2024