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HANSARD 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 for your forbearance, Mr Twigg, given the debate in the main Chamber, and I am delighted to be able to resume my speech. Just to quickly recap the last bit of my…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Civil Nuclear Road MapI warmly welcome my hon. Friend’s announcement today, because when the advanced gas-cooled reactors are decommissioned by 2030, we will have a dip in nuclear production. The…11 Jan 2024HANSARD Great Western Main LineThank you for allowing me to contribute to this debate, Ms Vaz. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham), a constituency neighbour, for securing…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemAs deputy Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, let me inform my right hon. and learned Friend and the House that the Committee has some of the most sensitive information…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Net Migration FiguresThese figures were, I regret to say, entirely predictable, and they are unsustainable: they put too much pressure on our public services. My constituents want to know—and we have…28 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn StatementI am sure that the people of the Cotswolds will welcome enormously many of the measures in this statement, but can I just mention one subject that is dear to my heart, the tourist…22 Nov 2023HANSARD Autumn Statement ResolutionsThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for letting me catch your eye in the debate. I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett). A long time ago, we were…22 Nov 2023HANSARD Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy hon. Friend engaged in some self-deprecation at the beginning of his speech about the scope of the new clause, which I co-signed, but I think he is underselling it. The…20 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe human misery and death on both sides, Israeli and Palestinian, are the worst I have witnessed since I became a Member of this House, and they will be solved only by a…14 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerMy right hon. Friend is making an amazing speech, showing how much the Government have done for our environment. Could she give us an idea of the timetable for the small nuclear…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI declare my interest as a chartered surveyor. There is a scourge that we need to deal with in the Bill. I have lots of constituents living in homes on housing estates built in…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerIt was wonderful to see His Majesty deliver his first Gracious Speech as King, announcing the Government’s priorities for this year. I am grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and…09 Nov 2023HANSARD Renters (Reform) BillI am very grateful to my hon. Friend, whose area I know well because—I declare an interest—I farm in his constituency. I also have rental properties. What he is saying is…23 Oct 2023HANSARD Tax-free Shopping for International VisitorsI anticipated that my hon. Friend would raise that—in fact, I nearly put it in my speech to stop her doing so. The proportion of people who want to reclaim the tax and have goods…07 Sept 2023HANSARD Tax-free Shopping for International VisitorsThe Cotswolds.07 Sept 2023HANSARD Tax-free Shopping for International VisitorsI am grateful to you, Dr Huq, for giving me the opportunity to briefly reply to this debate; it is very important. I thank the Minister for setting out in detail for the first…07 Sept 2023HANSARD Tax-free Shopping for International VisitorsI thank the shadow Exchequer Secretary for giving way. I did not realise he had just been promoted, so I congratulate him on his new post. For understandable reasons, he is not…07 Sept 2023HANSARD Tax-free Shopping for International VisitorsI beg to move, That this House has considered tax-free shopping for international visitors. I thank you, Dr Huq, and Mr Speaker very much for granting me this opportunity to bring…07 Sept 2023HANSARD Tax-free Shopping for International VisitorsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for being so well informed to be able to answer that individual point. However, I suspect, again, that industry and the OBR will disagree with her…07 Sept 2023