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HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for intervening a second time, because I now have the exact words from Hansard . The Chancellor said: “When it is responsible, when it can be…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsLet me make one important point, which I hope the hon. Gentleman will consider when he intervenes. Yesterday the Chancellor said that, through our tax cuts and by raising the…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI think the hon. Gentleman is misrepresenting what my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said yesterday. I have Hansard here. I cannot look through it quickly enough to give the…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I hope he is not going to misrepresent what the Chancellor said. I will have to get it in Hansard , but I will give him one more chance.07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am delighted to have caught your eye in this important Budget debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am also pleased to follow the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy right hon. Friend is making a good case for yesterday’s announcements in the Budget. He has dealt very thoroughly with Labour’s record when in office, but will he turn his…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend is entirely right. The Chancellor’s announcement in the autumn statement of £10 billion for full business expensing was one of the most important economic…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsAgain, I hope we will not have my right hon. Friend’s welcome ambition to reduce national insurance traduced in the way that it has been. I do not think we will get very far by…07 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingMy hon. Friend is making an extremely knowledgeable speech about agriculture, as I would expect. One of my constituents was prepared to invest a considerable amount of money in…04 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingI am sorry to interrupt my right hon. Friend, but does she agree that it is vital that when we negotiate future trade deals, we include in them the fact that Britain has some of…04 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingThank you for allowing me to catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, in this important debate on farming, during which we have heard words of wisdom from no less than two former…04 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has only just come into the debate. We on the Public Accounts Committee given a lot of attention to the work of the Environment Agency. It…04 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingFarmers in my constituency in Gloucestershire have been involved in the cull probably longer than anyone else, except perhaps those on the Somerset levels. Could my hon. Friend…04 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingIf Madam Deputy Speaker will allow me to give way and increase my time a bit, I will happily do so.04 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingI gently say to my hon. Friend that it was not only the veterinary inspections; it was the planning, the hygiene, the safety—every sort of regulation under the sun has made the…04 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [Lords]Is the hon. Lady aware that the Wilson doctrine is still in operation? This came about in the ’60s and ’70s when Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister of the day, gave an undertaking…19 Feb 2024HANSARD School AttendanceWill my right hon. Friend the Minister give way?23 Jan 2024HANSARD School AttendanceMr Twigg, I am grateful to serve under your chairmanship, and I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford) not only on securing this debate but on…23 Jan 2024HANSARD School AttendanceI am grateful to the Minister for giving way; I think he has time. Will he address the problem that I mentioned at the end of my speech, which was about the liaison between local…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Civil Nuclear Road Map and WylfaMy hon. Friend’s enthusiasm for Wylfa is absolutely infectious, although there may be a little bit of competition for a gigawatt power station from Oldbury or Berkeley. That…23 Jan 2024